Concentric Circles

Wassily Kandinsky's Original Painting

Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky
1A & 1B

Learning skills in the "Ice Cream Shop"

Self-Regulation
Children learn how to self regulate their play
by taking turns and applying their role play.
Customers line up to order ice cream.

Children explored with different
 materials in the drama center and
created simple patterns.
bowl, spoon, bowl, spoon
a,b,a,b,a,b

Children explored different tools
and materials,
as well as practiced problem solving
while role playing.

Children created a tally chart to vote
on the name of the ice cream shop.
 The tally chart will help them
investigate quantity by
 identifying fewer,
 more or the same.
Guess which name of the
 ice cream shop
won the most votes?

The whole class created a web of ideas.
 Children recognized people and places
 in their community, and shared their
 knowledge and experiences.

Children explored role playing
and different
element of drama.
"I will be the server"
"I will be the cashier,
we need a care taker".

  

Children communicated
their ideas by
creating a poster for
advertisement.

 
  

By creating a Menu and prices
 for the ice cream,
children learn:
problem solving
counting,
adding and subtracting.

Literacy Centres in January

Exploring 2D Shapes

                                         

Children composed pictures using 2D shape pattern blocks. Look how creative we are!

Children are learning to recognize and describe 2D shapes. We practiced sorting shapes into groups based on the shape's features. For example, a square is like a rectangle because they both have four sides.

Children made 2D shapes using different materials (e.g., goeboards, playdough, popsicle sticks).

Students are learning to recognize 2D shapes in the environment.

We are working on composing and decomposing 2D shapes.

High Frequency Words

High frequency words are the words that appear most often in printed material. Children should be able to recognize these words quickly and accurately by the end of Senior Kindergarten. Children should also be able to spell these words accurately in their writing. Each week we take a few words from our daily shared reading and writing and add them to our classroom Word Wall.

Some children have their own flip books for extra practice with high frequency words. 

Number Line

This number line was co-created with the students - everyone contributed! Students are learning that each number can be represented in many different ways. Also, writing numbers down on a number line makes it easy to tell which numbers are bigger or smaller.

Making Predictions