tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64931587839263789252024-02-06T19:32:55.229-08:00Beginning with Inquiry in KindergartenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-72275768284737315512015-05-04T18:51:00.000-07:002015-05-07T18:12:27.613-07:00Inspire Learning Outside - a Ministry ProjectI consider myself a very lucky person to have wonderful friends with amazing ideas. This spring I was fortunate to have my class become part of a Ministry Pilot Project that Tanya Murray an Outdoor Education Specialist with Sibbald Point and a Forest School Practitioner put together to inspire learning outside. Our class was piloted to be the Urban School - where our goal was to promote more learning outside and demonstrate to others in our school and board that it is both easy and important to nurture students natural curiosities through their local environment.<br />
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If you would like to see more photos and ideas created throughout this project please follow the twitter and Instagram hashtag #inspirelearningoutside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of our climbing tree within our Kindergarten space.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up from under the Pine trees.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Capturing snails and making a home for them.</td></tr>
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Using our existing greenspace, Tanya and myself planned for a mapping project where my students would be engaged in a "Where in our green space do you feel most inspired to learn?" inquiry. To answer this question we needed to visit our Special Spots several times in order to develop a connection to these places. Upon returning from these spots of play/learning/inquiring the students were encouraged to document their thinking and feeling both creatively and orally.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The outline of our school and Greenspace areas that we like to explore.</td></tr>
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As we had a very confined time frame consisting of a 3 day experience, we began with a minds-on hook for the children with an open exploration of county maps and trail maps. During this morning exploration the children developed their ideas about maps and the various components of maps. We then took Tanya on a walk through our various spaces both on school grounds and off where we enjoy inquiring and playing.<br />
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On the following Monday and Tuesday, Tanya brought an array of activities inspired by her Forest School training for the students to engage with. Although we as a class often spend considerable time outdoors, she gave us a new look at incorporating more of our learning experiences to be in the outdoor environment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating a natural environment for the snails we find.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking easy watercolour painting out to our "Sit Spots" area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting out in our natural environment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designing our "Sit Spots" to make them our own.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make believe play with natural found materials.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conducting our morning meeting and read alouds outside.</td></tr>
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Many of the activities we offer for the students challenged their problem-solving skills; through the creation of ropes play and setting up of tents, finding and using sticks for a variety of purposes (drawing our landscape, creating music). Many children enjoyed creating Nipkins with clay using their imaginations and this new art medium. Once these Nipkins were created, we encouraged the children to create stories and act them out. Several Nipkins engaged in climbing the ropes and venturing under the big tree for a student created fireside marshmallow roast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using clay to create Nipkins (neutral-sex fairies).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">T.T. was very proud of her Nipkin and then took it off to play on the ropes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Practicing our knots when creating a ropes obstacle course.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing with ropes is so creative and challenging.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating a tic-tac-toe board with sticks we found.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating a fire for roasting marshmallows<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tying knots in the tree to put up a tent.</td></tr>
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While many children were engaged in creative play, we pulled smaller groups of students to create their own special areas for outdoor learning, inquiries, and places to explore on our large school space map. At the beginning of the project we show the children a large map with an outline of our school's space. They were encouraged to add how, where, and what they learn while outdoors to this map over the next week. We continue to document student learning about their special learning spaces. This is visible in our documentation panels throughout our hallway for other educators and the community to read and respond to. We were thrilled when parents in the other Kindergarten class asked questions about what was happening and they expressed an interest in having their child experience similar outdoor learning.<br />
"I wish my child could participate is such a rich activity."<br />
"It looks so fun to learn outside."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating our Special Places for adding to our map.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Things we like to investigate in our Outdoor Environment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Places where I like to learn and play.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building fine motor skills while creating for our map.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thinking about our Special Spots for Learning and creating with Plasticine.</td></tr>
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Working within this Pilot Project we also experienced some thoughtful provocations set out by our community partners (Diane Kashin and ThinkinEd both from York Region Nature Collaborative). On the final afternoon of our Urban Inspire Learning Outside experience the children were invited to draw an outline of themselves using chalk and then filled their body with loose parts to show how they feel while learning outside. As I went from student to student to capture their thinking, their thoughts about how fun and awesome bringing our learning outside was to them came through very clear. Learning outside allows our children to reconnect with nature in a way that they will become stewards of our environment for life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I feel very, very, very happy learning outside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My body is excited to learn outside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I feel the wind blowing and the planting growing.</td></tr>
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Following our Urban Pilot Project, our students continue to inquire about one experience in particular: Worms. This will be a more in-depth post later, however one learning experience we have been focusing on throughout is Environmental Stewardship. This can be seen in two specific experiences to date. In regards to our worm inquiry the students are both learning to overcome their fears of handling nature as well as taking on the responsibility to ensure we are not harming nature in any way - rather we are making a "home" not a house for our worms while bringing them inside to inquire about, but also ensuring that we have a plan to put them back into nature when we are done. Instead of seeing nature as "yucky" it is something we now respect and need to care for throughout our learning experiences.<br />
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Going on nature walks is a great way to begin the inquiry process for many, however we find it is more engaging for the students to play and learn in the outdoors as they gain more self-regulating skills, independence, and confidence through regular and repeated experiences outside. We are so thankful to be a part of this experience and to become advocates for Inspire Learning Outside for our school, our community, our PLN, and our board.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our map after the 3 full days spent outside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of our documentation about our Special Places Learning.</td></tr>
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As our next step, our kindergarten class will be creating a mural to be installed within our school to capture student voice from grades K-8 about a Growing Mindset for Outdoor Learning.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-86962433333948788202015-03-20T08:50:00.003-07:002015-03-20T08:50:57.958-07:00Marble Runs - working through the curriculum expectations.Through this entire year, whether we set up new provocations in the big block centre, a group of children seem to always be asking us for marbles as they continue to be intrigued with building marble runs all the time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beginning stages of the marble runs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the beginning stages of the marble runs.</td></tr>
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Rather than tell the students they must use the blocks in the ways we are suggesting, we allow the children to control their own play. If they wish to build marble runs every day we allow them to continue to build upon their own created schema.<br />
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What we have noticed throughout the year is the marble runs are becoming more complex and they students are trying new things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding sides to make sure the marble stays on the track.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning to add sides and tunnels.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning to add drops and turns.</td></tr>
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At first they created marble runs and their idea was to have the marble follow along a wooden path to the end. The students quickly realized that the marble kept falling off the track, until one of the kiddos suggested they put up some sides to prevent the marble from falling off. This lead to many marble runs being created in the following weeks. As the children experimented with longer and shorter tracks, one day one of our kiddos decided to add a circular track at the end.<br />
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As the students shared their work with the entire class during one of our class meetings, this in turn sparked more interest to include other children in their play. We have noticed that the marble runs consistently have a small core group of children with a variety of others coming and going at various times throughout the day and weeks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making it more elaborate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding places to catch the ball at the end.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating jumps in the middle and traps at the end.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating bridges to cross and tunnels to go through.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Often video tapping the marble to look back at the designs for later.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing with a variety of different inclines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A failed attempt leads to more talk and adjustments.</td></tr>
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One morning I tracked the play at the marble run throughout the entire morning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beginning of the play.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It quickly turned into this. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scientific model in Kindergarten.</td></tr>
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We have encouraged the students to draw plans for what their marble runs are going to look like each day and now they are writing sentences to tell us what they want for the outcome of the marbles path.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here the boys are drawing and writing about <br />the road going over the bridge and also being curvy.</td></tr>
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As educators we sometimes feel the need to move the students thinking forward in a slightly newer direction. We did this by asking a simple question: "Do you think the marble will roll faster or slower down a steep ramp?" This allowed for new vocabulary to be introduce to the students. Faster, Slower, Steep, Incline. This time the students were engaged in building for an experiment. We suggested rather than make a plan first - they could build their marbles runs, test the different inclines for speed, then draw designs and add their conclusions at the end. This group of students continued to frequent this area for another few weeks. This was a perfect example of planning a design, testing and retesting a hypothesis, and finally coming to a conclusion all on their own.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see how the children changed<br /> the slope of the ramp to get the car to roll through the hole.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now they want to see if the marble or car will go up the ramp<br />into the can.</td></tr>
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Marble runs are still continuing to be built on a regular basis within our classroom. Allowing for the children to determine what they want to test is the key to engaged learning. Just before the break we began to see the kiddos planning and testing to see if by changing the incline plane the marble and car would go through a hole to land on the other side of a tunnel.<br />
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Children are Capable, Creative, and Communicators when we allow them to choose their own learning.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-30164997208543113152015-02-08T15:51:00.000-08:002015-02-08T15:51:42.354-08:00Snow and Ice InquiryThis winter was long in coming to our school area. We waited all throughout the month of December without any snow falls. Luckily for us during the end of the January month brought a lot of snow for us to play in.<br />
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On the day after the first real big snowfall and declared snow day, the children came to school dressed for the weather - which was great to see. When I asked the students who had played outside the day before, to my dismay only two students replied that they had played outside in the snow for a little bit. Fresh snow is the best time to play outside for hours. So we didn't undress and get ready for indoor activities that day - we prepared to go outside and plat in the snow.<br />
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As several students have been intent on building marble runs at the block centre, I proposed the question: "Can we make a maze - similar to your marble runs - outside in the big field?"<br />
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We had a bit of a whole group discussion about mazes. Some students had no idea what a maze was, however as we added to our schema more students began to visualize what a snow maze might look like.<br />
"A maze has lines to follow."<br />
"I saw dead ends."<br />
"It's very, very long."<br />
"I've been in a corn maze before. I got lost."<br />
"How do we make a dead end?"<br />
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As we headed out, some students kept their attention on making mazes, while others just wanted to play in the snow, burying themselves, trying to make a snowman, making snow angels. This was ok with us as educators, knowing that these little ones rarely get the chance to just explore snow from a playful point of view.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making mazes and snow angels in the freshly fallen snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burying a friend in the snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digging in the snow to see what id underneath.</td></tr>
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We feel it is important to allow the students to have extended periods of playtime outside in all weather conditions, as the country we live in allows for all these experiences. Throughout the week as more snow graced our playspace we continued to ensure the students had long periods of time to play in the snow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making a snow train and travelling to far away places.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building a snow castle. Putting a flag on top.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making a door for everyone to come in.</td></tr>
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During the week we engaged in several science experiments: How sticky is the snow in different weather conditions. This question came to us as on the very cold days the children noticed that they couldn't make a snowball to roll and make bigger. They experimented with throwing the snow in the air.<br />
"It doesn't stay together."<br />
"Look Ms. Clark it's falling apart."<br />
"I can't throw it far."<br />
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The children have been wondering about polar bears within the classroom and while outside they decided to try their hand at building a den/igloo for polar bears. This activity had the children working on figuring out how to get the snow to pack hard enough into the buckets so that when they turned them over they could get out a shape to build with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Packing the snow into the containers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carrying ice blocks over to our structure.</td></tr>
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While working with the buckets of snow the children were quick to point out the various 3-D shapes they were making.<br />
"I made a cone."<br />
"This one is a rectangular prism."<br />
"I think this is a cylinder."<br />
When ask what shape they want to make for the floor of their igloo - all the children replied with a circle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating the circular base for the den/igloo.</td></tr>
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As they began to make the igloo, placing snow bucket after snow bucket beside each other, many of our younger students were able to count the snowcastles lined up. This depicted how they could count using one-to-one correspondence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Counting the snowcastles.</td></tr>
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As the students worked through this very important scientific investigation process of planning, experimenting, and problem solving they began to see the fruits of their work become a visible structure. By the time it was time to go inside (as some of our kiddos were becoming cold) they had completed the base of the igloo - learning that each "snowcastle" needed more snow to fill in the gaps. We examined the bricks on the school to see how the bricks were held together.<br />
"The bricks have that grey stuff."<br />
"It's cement"<br />
"What can we use?<br />
"I know - let's use snow!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How do we get the 2 shapes closer together? </td></tr>
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We must always realize that lots of our curriculum can take place outside. Using the children's play, we can find the curriculum expectations to support and extend their learning.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-49644295012474480762015-01-18T14:23:00.002-08:002015-01-18T14:23:06.534-08:00Planets, Outer Space, and the MoonI have been attempting to get to this post since the end of December, and am glad to finally publish it for sharing. Unfortunately at the end of the year, just before the break, we had our technical reps into the school and they re-imaged all our I-Pads including the one I take all my pictures on and although I thought I had made a copy of all the photos and saved them to my Google Drive I was unpleasantly surprised to see that many of the photos have disappeared. This was a lessoned learned for me - back up all photos regularly!<br />
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For the month of December the students started showing an interest in Space and Travelling there by rocketship.<br />
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We found several larger boxes and allowed the students to design and cut out their spaceship as they saw fit. We encouraged them to make plans before using the scissors to cut out the windows.<br />
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Once the rocket was ready for play the children all wanted a turn to fly into space to see what they could see. This was a good exercise in learning how to take turns so that all interested were able to have their fair turn inside the ship to look at the galaxy. As the student climbed into the rocketship another student closed the door, while a third student help the window shut. As the on-lookers performed the count down 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-Blast Off!, the window was opened and the "astronaut" looked out into the galaxy and told us what they saw.<br />
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"I see the Moon"<br />
"I see Saturn and more planets"<br />
"I see the milky way"<br />
"I see dark"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Researching the Solar System on the I-Pad.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating the Solar System on mural paper.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking our time to write the names of the planets.</td></tr>
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As the days went on several of the students showed an interest in creating a mural of all the planets in our galaxy. We used the I-Pads to research some of the planets and came across an image of the Solar System. The students wanted to recreate this on the mural paper to hang up in the Planet Corner. Working diligently they consulted the images on the I-Pad and tried to get the planets into the correct order.<br />
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Several other students were engaged in an art project creating a hanging display of all the planets in our Solar System. They created each planet and wrote its name to hang up. What a great way to incorporate authentic writing experiences.<br />
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Others worked at the watercolour table to show their learning.<br />
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The fun thing about having on-going inquiries throughout the classroom - students will pick up the theme throughout the day at various activities. This was seen when a number of students engaged in Math-magician time and were using 2-D shapes to create images of the planets.<br />
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With a particular interest in the moon at one of our morning meetings we discussed the things we know, and the questions we had about the moon. We then began to look through books and internet sites to gain more information about our questions - realizing that some of our theories and thinking were actual misconceptions. Always good learning along the way for all.<br />
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We are reluctant to take down any of this documentation as the children are often coming back to the pictures and drawing they created to see what they created this year. We are hoping that by leaving it up the kiddos will find another avenue for research to spark this inquiry again.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-4982822697281902442014-12-10T14:31:00.000-08:002014-12-10T14:31:08.353-08:00Becoming "Math-magicians"Throughout the month of November we have been discussing with the children how important it is to practice our math skills on a daily basis. We have been discovering together that math is everywhere. During our play many math concepts can be found, however every day we take time to have all the students engaged in math play. We call this time Math-Magician Time. We can all make magic with math.<br />
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Each student has the option to choose from a variety of manipulatives to show their learning and understanding of a range of mathematical concepts. We allow the children to choose their own manipulatives in order to develop self-regulating skills. We have found that moving from the "must-do" bins we used to do in the past allows the students to enter at their own level and increase the difficulty as needed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matching numbers on dominoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making numbers with dominoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing math games.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Counting to 100 by 5s.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using one-to-one counting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Showing the number 7.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making numbers with blocks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making our own dominoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Showing groups of numbers to 6.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forming numbers with connectors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making up our own games - rock/paper/scissors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Practicing counting with tally marks.</td></tr>
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Following the math period we join back together at our meeting place to share some of the learning the teachers noticed as well as have the students share their thinking. We will often project some of the activities on the Smartboard where the students can come up and point to various aspects of their learning. This gives the students the opportunity to communicate orally with their peers and share in their interests.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-14539021989699384562014-10-27T14:55:00.001-07:002014-10-27T14:55:49.190-07:00Beautiful Stuff ProjectDuring the months of September and October our class has participated in a Beautiful Stuff project. After reading a resource this summer <u>Beautiful Stuff! Learning with Found Materials</u> by Cathy Weisman and Lella Gandini I was inspired to have the students help create our own materials of Beautiful Stuff.<br />
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In the past I would have collected all the materials and bought several things from the Dollar Store for the children to use in the classroom for their creations (of course I still do frequent the Dollar Store). However this year I wanted to see if more children would take to the materials when they became part of the process.<br />
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In the middle of September, we sent home a letter to the families encouraging them to fill their bag with Beautiful Stuff. We gave them suggestions of things they might find around their house. Quickly the children filled their bags and brought them back to the classroom. As soon as most of the bags were returned we had a class meeting to share some of the things within the bags.<br />
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In order to make each child feel special for the objects they had brought in, we made a point to slowly open each bag one at a time and let the children oooh and aaah over the materials dicovered within. Opening all the bags took several days and lots of anticipation.<br />
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P.T. I see lots of colours.<br />
C.L. I see different colours of blue.<br />
A.H. There's pink and orange,<br />
B.Z. There's a giant,<br />
Ms. C. You mean this sphere is very big,<br />
C.L. I see long things and short things.<br />
C.Y. I see beautiful things.<br />
C.L. A marble<br />
T.T. I see lots of stars.<br />
A.L. I see a prism.<br />
Ms. C. What do you see that is special?<br />
D.Z. I see a pattern.<br />
O.Z. Princess<br />
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Once all the bags had been opened and all the materials were mixed together in our Beautiful Stuff basket, the next step was to sort through it. In small groups the children sorted the materials various ways. Floating things, soft things, hard things, pointy things, rolling things. In the end we decided as a class we would do a final sort using a colour scheme. All the yellows together, reds together, etc...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorting by sticky things, things that rolls, things that twist.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finding different ways to sort our materials.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making sorting rules.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorting by colour.</td></tr>
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Once we had all the materials sorted into the various plastic containers, during a class meeting I proposed that we co-create a Beautiful Stuff Alphabet (inspired by Joanne Babalis). In the past I have always put up the Jolly Phonics letters for the children as a reference. This year I wanted them to take ownership in creating the important resources in their classroom. I collected all the bristol board pieces needed for this project and included the Jolly Phonics picture cues for each letter (I still feel some children need these references when beginning their writing experiences).<br />
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As the days went on our co-created alphabet was beginning to take shape. Every student had a chance to work with a letter of the alphabet and decide which materials they wished to use to create the letters.<br />
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Our co-created Beautiful Stuff Alphabet is proudly displayed in the classroom as a resource for writing.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-53610551129547665262014-10-26T13:51:00.002-07:002014-10-26T13:51:32.602-07:00Our Snail InquiryThroughout the month of September, every time we went outside to our outdoor learning environments the students were always in search of finding snails. It all began when we went into our school's Eco Garden to look at the various plants that had been growing over the summer. One of the student's found a snail hiding on the underside of a big leaf.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching the snail come out and slither around.</td></tr>
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This child was so enthralled to see it come out of its shell, he wanted to show all the other students. Many of them were interested to watch what the snail did next.<br />
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As the students continued to look for and find more snails, we decided that it would be ok to bring a few back into the classroom to observe further. We had several discussions about the importance of both creating a natural habitat for the snails while they are inside our classroom as well as the importance of releasing them back into nature as soon as we were done with our inquiry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating a habitat for the snails.</td></tr>
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The students took pride in helping to create the habitat. I bought a clear glass bowl for easy viewing and a strainer for the top so the snails could still get fresh air while not escaping outside of the bowl. The habitat was placed on a low table where the students could go observe and draw what they were seeing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking closely and drawing what we see.</td></tr>
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As time went on, a group of students began asking questions and wondering a little deeper about the snails and their life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating habitats at the Loose Parts centre for the snails.</td></tr>
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We did some research on both the internet and in books. The students were keen to draw pictures of this learning and write the information in order to create their own class book about snails.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">watching the snail as he hangs upside down.</td></tr>
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This was a great learning experience for the students. They were engaged in literacy skills while reading and writing about the snails. They were also engaged in mathematical skills while creating snails with patterns at our Loose Parts centre.<br />
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As we listened to them talk about the colours, we began to notice that some of the children were mixing colours and becoming excited about the new colours they were creating. We decided to set up some experiences for them to experiment with colour mixing.<br />
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Below is an invitation for the children to come to our newly created Art Atelier. This is where they will experiment with coloured water in the primary colours. They mixed the various colours to make new colours. Together we learned that Blue + Yellow = Green, Red + Blue = Purple, and Red + Yellow = Orange.<br />
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The children also experimented with adding more of one colour to make lighter and darker versions of the secondary colours.<br />
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Then we gave them some cornstarch. This ended up in two discoveries. The children soon realized they could make very light and milky colours, however some also noticed the consistency change in the liquid. It became "goopy" "slimy", and "hard to mix".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"really light orange"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"look at all my greens"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I like mixing the white powder - it's sticky!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I'm going to add lots of the white stuff - it's goopy"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Look so light colours"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I'm making pink and purple, and blue. All light"</td></tr>
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Some of the children went back to the big painting easel later in the week to again experiment with colour mixing to create more colours for their paintings. This time they were specifically talking about how they were going to make the colours green, purple, and orange.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D.Z. made a picture of himself using only the primary colours. <br />He mixed some colours to create new ones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I like orange - yellow with red."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Yellow and blue make it green."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's another friend who tried making pink <br />with her hands.</td></tr>
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We are continuing to experiment with colours and see how when the primary colours mix together with various materials we can change them to new colours.</div>
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We have taken lots of pictures during this inquiry and the children have helped us create a document panel in the classroom within the Art Atelier. This documentation panel contains lots of the children's own writing explaining what they saw happening during the process. What a great way to have them write authentically. Please make sure to come and visit our new art space and read through the documentation. The students are very proud of their work.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-44963800914298416262014-09-14T15:22:00.003-07:002014-09-14T15:23:19.246-07:00Looking Forward to a New YearIt is with excitement that we always start off a new year. I have to admit I will miss Miss Blundell as she is beginning a new life with her precious baby girl, however I am eager to work closely together with Ms. Liu this year as our DECE.<br />
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We have set up the classroom to invite the children to explore their curiosities, and forge new friendships along the way. This year we have a large returning group of Butterflies (Senior Kindergarten students) and a smattering of new Caterpillars (Junior Kindergarten students).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planning a nest for the bird.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating an ocean picture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making a cake for a birthday.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawing a backdrop for the animal farm.</td></tr>
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One of our main goals this year is to spend an hour outside first thing every morning - rain, shine, or snow! So far the kiddos have had a great time exploring our own playspace just outside the classroom. Instead of keeping the kiddos "inside the pen" we have opened the doors and allowed them to freely roam on the grass and treed areas just outside the pen. Here we have explored the trees for pinecones, the gardens for a variety of flowers and berries. Ants, snails and spiders have come out to greet us; enticing our curiosities. You can also find us out in the parkland adjacent to the schoolyard. Taking cover from the sun and rain under the awning at the picnic tables, we often draw and write about things that interest us. We can be found playing and creating in our large sandbox (otherwise known as a baseball diamond) while the City Worker lets us finish up before moving in to give us a clean slate for the next time we return.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawing and writing in the sand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being curious about living things in our environment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using outdoor spaces to engage our senses in learning.</td></tr>
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Back in the classroom we have been engaged in a colour inquiry. I put out an experiment into colour mixing, hoping the children would be curious and have had a line up ever since for all the kiddos to have a turn to learn about colour mixing in our newly created Art Atelier.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you think about these colours?</td></tr>
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We are documenting the children's learning throughout this inquiry and have already begun to post their comments and photos inside the classroom. Here are a few of the photos so far, however stay tuned for an entire Blog post about our learning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making observations when we mix two colours together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking at the effects of adding white.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-72265785961587909622014-07-12T12:01:00.002-07:002014-07-12T12:01:42.216-07:00BBFK - summer 2014We have started the summer off with a new group of BBFK children. We are beginning our day with outdoor activities. The first week we went to the playground, where we are beginning to learn the safety rules.<br />
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<li>We will wait for the person ahead of us to finish climbing before we start.</li>
<li>We will always slide down on our bottoms.</li>
<li>Rocks stay on the ground.</li>
<li>We will always stay in sight of the teachers.</li>
<li>We will have FUN!</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Climbing up one at a time.</td></tr>
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This week our outdoor activities are a little closer to the school doors. We are lucky to have a natural playscape with big trees, and grassy areas. We brought out the basketball net and a ball to practice our gross motor skills of passing, catching, and throwing. We have also brought out the sand table. On the first day it was very dry sand and the children had fun experimenting with the sand running through the various funnels and wheels. On the third day it rained and our sand got wet. We are now experimenting with the differences in sand texture and how it moves through the various funnels. The children have discovered that it is easier to build castles and mountains when the sand is wet. We bring out a blanket and clipboards with paper and crayons so the children can engage in outdoor drawings. This is a great activity to encourage the children to look around them to draw what they see.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working on Gross Motor skills.</td></tr>
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Today we crept over to the big old pine tree and played under the branches. Collecting pinecones was so much fun. We were very quiet so as not to scare the birds and squirrels that might be living in the tree. The children thoroughly enjoyed playing in this space and being free to investigate and wonder about nature. We brought the pinecones into the classroom to continue our wonderings and interact with numeracy, sorting, making pictures and developing our oral language skills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making faces with the pinecones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Counting how many pinecones we found.</td></tr>
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Next week our plan is to visit the big park outside the school grounds. We will focus our initial walk to "What can I see..." and hopefully create an I-Movie we can share on the blog with our families.</div>
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Inside the classroom, we have been focusing on recognizing and writing our names. We have had several fun activities to create our names. Every morning we enter the classroom and one of our morning routines is to find our name tag and place it in the pocket chart. This way, whenever during the day we need to write our name on our work we know exactly where to find it. We have painted our names, we have made our names out of playdoh. During the first week of school, every child had a chance to create their name with ink and stamps. This is a messy activity, however we are always having fun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing name with playdoh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing names with playdoh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing names at the Doctor's Office.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stamping our names.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing our name on our drawings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finding the letters in our names in the confetti.</td></tr>
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In our classroom, art is a main focus. We like to create with tempra paints at the big easel as well as use the watercolours in the atelier. During our first week of school, we read the Brown Bear story several times, retelling the story at the drama centre using the feltboard and characters. The children are getting very good at retelling the story on their own and joining in with the reread every time. This week, in the atelier we have been learning about cutting with scissors and pasting with glue sticks. There certainly is a lot to learn when using these materials in the classroom. As we continue to practice cutting and pasting we can see our skills getting better.</div>
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Other areas of play-based learning that has taken place this year is the sand table with letters, the children love to find their beginning initial and make the outline in the sand. We have found the letters in our name in the beads and put them in the correct order. We are sorting the letters in the snow by colour.</div>
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The Loose Parts table has been very busy with creations of various kinds. We are learning to use our fine motor skills to pick up and place the beads gently in order to make a picture. Some of the kiddos are able to orally describe the picture they have made, we are still working with the others to share orally what they have created. One of our kiddos began her creation by making a pattern along the out side edge of the frame. We will extend her thinking by having her talk about the pattern and possibly create more complicated ones.<br />
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Creating at the light table with magnetic shapes and seeing how they can be put together to make 3-D shapes has begun a good inquiry in this BBFK classroom this year. We have made boxes, castles, dragons, and tall towers. Learning the English words for various things we make and repeating those words is quite an accomplishment for several of our children this year.<br />
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This week we looked at colours and how mixing them together can change the colour we put on our paper. This has been an exciting experiment for a few kiddos this week. They are creating lovely paintings by mixing their colours. A few kiddos are also experimenting with looking closely at flowers to draw what they see, then painting them in beautiful colours.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-34233571952659782812014-05-23T16:28:00.001-07:002014-05-23T16:28:45.591-07:00A Year With Our BunnyWe have been fortunate enough to have adopted Hop, our bunny, from another kindergarten classroom last year. The learning that has taken place with her has been phenomenal. Our students have learned about caring for an animal, how to feed and clean her cage, how to use recycling material for bedding instead of purchasing from a store, and how to show they care for her as a part of our classroom by drawing pictures, writing stories, making crafts, and making books about her.<br />
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Several students have also engaged in building houses, castles, and playgrounds for Hop. She has thoroughlyenjoyed playing amoungst our children on a daily basis.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reading non-fiction books<br />about rabbits.</td></tr>
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When we took on the role of adopting Hop into our classroom, it was under the premise that we would place her up for adoption at the end of this year so another kindergarten class would be able to experience some and more of the same experiences.<br />
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Hop is great with the children, she stays at the school during the weekends, and has been a wonderful addition to our room this year. The hope is that she will connect more and more kindergarten classrooms through Twitter and/or Blogs. <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/102745671671531527285" target="_blank">+Joanne Babalis</a> class has been following the updates this year, and we hope to follow updates next year.<br />
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If you are interested in adopting her, for free, for the up coming year please email me at<br />
kimberley.clark@yrdsb.caAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-50196729008406300042014-05-19T13:17:00.001-07:002014-05-19T13:17:46.966-07:00Will they hatch? Looking Closely at a bird's nest.I was able to find an empty birds nest several weeks ago, and brought it into the classroom for the kiddos to see. They were all quite intrigued by it and several stayed to draw pictures of what they saw. We had many discussions about what the birds used to make this nest, what kind of bird made this nest, and where would the bird go now that the nest is gone?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wonder what bird made this nest?</td></tr>
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Then we receive a special gift on loan from our teacher librarian. She gave us a nest with three blue eggs inside. We made sure the kiddos knew that this nest had been abandoned by the momma bird and that is why it was ok to bring it to school for us to observe. We took care to place the nest and box in a large plastic bag so that our little hands wouldn't get tempted to touch and hurt the eggs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparing the two nests.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The momma bird must have left this feather<br />to let the babies know that are safe."</td></tr>
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There was lots of observing and questioning about these eggs and what kind of bird may have laid them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our bird's nest inquiry board.</td></tr>
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We watched a video showing three blue eggs in a nest in the process of hatching. This lead us to believe the eggs in our nest are from a robin - just like in the video. I love the media to real life connections our kiddos make.<br />
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A few of the kiddos decided that the empty nest also should have eggs in it for the momma bird to look after. So they busily began making blue eggs out of playdoh. Another kiddo came by later in the day to witness these home made eggs, and worried that the momma couldn't come and keep them warm so she began looking for a blanket to wrap them in. Unfortunately our blankets are all too big for this nest, so after more searching, CY decided that our coloured feathers would be an excellent way to keep the eggs warm.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reading books to see if we can guess the momma bird.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our nest matches the other one.</td></tr>
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Maybe these will hatch, maybe they won't - but this has been a fun mini inquiry into tiny blue robin eggs.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-22052931959818566302014-05-19T12:48:00.001-07:002014-05-19T13:19:38.488-07:00Flower Inquiry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking Closely at plants and flowers.</td></tr>
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As the weeks are passing, many of our kiddos are quite intrigued by the flowers popping up all over the school grounds. We have flowers sprouting in our inquiry bin, lots of beautiful flowers are coming out at the front of the school, and we even received a special flower gift from the administration with the challenge to find it a spot outside.<br />
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We have been looking at the parts of a flower, by experimentation, by researching in non-fiction books, and looking on the internet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking Closely at the parts of a flower.</td></tr>
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Inside the classroom, we have been busy planting flower bulbs and seeds to see how they will grow. We have looked closely at what the different seeds look like, and are making predictions about what will grow first.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting flower seeds in eggshells.</td></tr>
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While looking at flowers outside, we have come across several cool insects and animals worth stopping to study them. While out at the public parkland we came across many dead bees. This lead to a few questions:<br />
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We collected a few and brought them back to the classroom for the kiddos to look closely at and investigate. We have watched a few videos about how bumble bees lay their eggs. In journals we are seeing some Ninja Bees - this has been a good boost to our imagination.<br />
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Some of the children are showing their knowledge of flowers through various languages of art. They have created bead flowers, window cling flowers, and paintings of flowers.<br />
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Our class has taken on the task of cleaning up one area of our Eco Garden. It is quite a mess as it hasn't been tended to consistently for a couple of years. Our Lunch Supervisor did a good clean up in the fall, but the weeds are beginning to sprout again. I have purchased 5 pairs of gloves for the kiddos, so they are learning patience in order to wait their turn to have a lunch period in the garden. Hopefully it will be cleaned up enough to plant the flower, admin gave us, in the next 2 weeks. We also have some more bulbs growing inside that need to be transferred to the garden outside. It will be fun to watch these continue to flower year after year.<br />
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While cleaning up the garden, we have come across several snails. <br />
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The kiddos are extremely curious about these tiny creatures. We have built them a small habitat in the classroom to observe and watch them. Over the next week or so, I will be teaching the kiddos that we can observe and document them for a while but they will have to go back into their natural habitat once we are finished.<br />
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I look forward to seeing where these snails will take us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-8197944252324045842014-04-26T19:49:00.000-07:002014-04-26T19:49:56.363-07:00Garden CreationsOur inquiry into Flowers began back in December when I brought in a mystery item. The bulb came in a glass jar and the students immediately began to ask questions about what it was.<br />
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As time went on, the students noticed that this mystery thing began to grow roots from the bottom down into the vase.<br />
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Several students drew pictures of what they saw and we began to read books about plants and flowers.<br />
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After the holiday break, we came into the classroom with a wonderful surprise awaiting us. Our bulb had sprouted flowers for us to see and smell! Oh what a wonderous addition to our classroom.<br />
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We have continued to watch and wonder throughout the various phases of our bulb's life cycle; documenting our learning along the way.<br />
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In March one of our kiddos decided she wanted to see what was inside the dead flower heads of our plant. So she began rubbing the dead flowers between her fingers and was surprised to find seeds coming out.<br />
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We soon began wondering about different kinds of plants and I brought in some other bulbs and rhizomes for the kiddos to look at and plant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking Closely at different plants and their roots/bulbs/rhizomes</td></tr>
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We spent a day moving our original bulb from its glass vase into a pot. We also planted several other plants we were beginning to accumulate.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting our bulb in soil to see what happens next.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking out the inside of a bulb.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting an orange seed from our snack.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting more bulbs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will they be the same type of flower?</td></tr>
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As we continued to document our learning, a question came up about how some of the plants grow leaves fast than others. This lead into measuring the heights of the leaves. I set out several different manipulates for measuring. The kiddos immediately grabbed the rulers and looked at the heights. This lead to a quick mini lesson on how to put the "0" of the ruler at the base of what we want to measure. The kiddos also had experiences working with cuisenaire rods to measure the various plant heights. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring with a ruler.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learning to measure starting at the "0"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring with cuisenaire rods.</td></tr>
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We have now moved our Flower Inquiry into our sandbox in order to make room for watercolour paintings of what we would like a flower garden to look like.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New location for our plants!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Create a garden and paint it!</td></tr>
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Stay tune for the next blog post on all the beautiful garden spaces are kiddos are creating.<br />
Perhaps our next step will be to help clean up and plant in our own Eco Garden outside.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-24569437076511539862014-04-26T19:19:00.002-07:002014-04-26T19:50:28.959-07:00Balance and blocksLast week we put out a challenge to our students to see what they can create with the Idea of Balance. <br />
Several students tried to create towers and robots that went high up. Others created balance in a symmetrical way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working hard to make all the parts balance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed Robot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Robot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning with balance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making it balanced is not all that easy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Castle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working to build up high.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Height and symmetry.</td></tr>
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All of our students were able to orally tell what their structure represents. Next week we will print off the pictures and have the students write about what they created to add to our documentation wall. To all our parents: if you have a chance - please come by next week to see our work. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-62257739708758575702014-04-21T06:45:00.002-07:002014-04-21T06:45:18.784-07:00Math Ideas for TeachersCheck out the blog post by Deanna Jump to get some new ideas for teaching Math in Kindergarten.<br />
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http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.caAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-79559488924945537102014-04-06T09:44:00.000-07:002014-04-06T09:44:48.344-07:00Ocean InquiryA few weeks back we had one of our students come into our morning meeting wanting to share his experience of visiting Ripley's Aquarium. He described many of the ocean animals he saw and talked about petting the ray fish.<br />
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He had so much excitement, that we immediately pulled out some mural paper for him to draw some of the ocean animals he saw. Many others students joined him to draw other ocean animals they knew about too. This mural paper was laid out for many to work on over several days. The children started off using just pencils to draw their images, but soon wanted to add colour so we gave them oil pastels to add the bright colours they would see in these real animals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning with pencil drawings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking in books to help draw ocean animals.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More kiddos joining and adding to the mural.</td></tr>
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An interest started to grow amoung a group of kiddos to draw colourful fish. We pulled out the I-Pads and looked at various pictures of fish. Every time they saw a brightly coloured fish "so beautiful" were many on the comments. A group of three girls began to look closely at photos on the I-Pads and draw what they saw. We helped them to write a sentence about their fish, trying to encourage descriptive words other than pretty and beautiful. Looking at the fish we see "spots", "lines", "hearts". These girls created their own Fish Book.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking at pictures in books to help us draw.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing sentences to go with the pictures.</td></tr>
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We read the story Rainbow Fish to the class several times. I have found through some action research, that rereading a story at least three times, and allowing the students to think about a question and share with a partner prior to the whole class, encourages more purposeful talk. We have been asking questions of the students to see their understanding of the meaning of Friendship. Friendship has many meanings to the kiddos. We sat in small groups and used the Think-Share model to share our ideas and thoughts. This allowed for the students to use purposeful talk to build on each others ideas in a meaningful way. Each child shared a shiny scale with our class friend to show how they can talk about friendship.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing our names on in shiny scale to share.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of great ideas about<br />being a good friend.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can be a good friend.</td></tr>
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During the final read aloud of Rainbow Fish, one of the students commented "Why Rainbow fish not give the Starfish a shiny scale - he don't have any friends too." This lead the students to become interested in Starfish. "Can they walk? How can they find a friend?" "Can Starfish talk?" "What do Starfish eat?" Some other students have been interested in researching various ocean animals. This new venue for the inquiry has lead a few children to want to research Starfish and other ocean animals. They have drawn pictures of what the animals look like, they are using authentic writing to label and describe their pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking at Starfish. What do we wonder?</td></tr>
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Several kiddos have participated in various art activities to communicate about what the see in these ocean creatures. It is wonderful to see the animals come to life through art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding blue watercolour <br />to imitate the ocean feel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using pastels to show <br />the beautiful colours of the fish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working with different art mediums to create Seahorses.</td></tr>
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We will continue to inquire about ocean animals and keep you informed of our process.<br />
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What will we research next?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw3p5CPSRCu9LKtKVl_5mKosne6geJIbLlyg8oWt5CMYYHaTiZH7qQiRZMvhsePt2ssB9ilkJdlvUVNxL77X4g9Qu4bf26sZsxU_VnxK6uC6RdNiXr2OJXUfta4CpdL3Q8t7nmGG0yTs/s1600/IMG_0085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw3p5CPSRCu9LKtKVl_5mKosne6geJIbLlyg8oWt5CMYYHaTiZH7qQiRZMvhsePt2ssB9ilkJdlvUVNxL77X4g9Qu4bf26sZsxU_VnxK6uC6RdNiXr2OJXUfta4CpdL3Q8t7nmGG0yTs/s1600/IMG_0085.JPG" height="200" width="150" /></a>She has taken on a project of introducing our kiddos to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have read the fairy tale in a whole group setting several times. Then the kiddos who were interested helped to create masks for all the characters and retell the story at the puppet theatre. Other kiddos were involved in the creation of stick puppets for retelling as well.<br />
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Once the children became very familiar with the story, Ms. Li has lead them through the process of creating their own Class Big Book of the story. Our own students are the writers and illustrators of this particular book. It is coming along nicely.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing the words for all the characters and props.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using our anchor chart to help create the Big Book</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paying attention to detail to illustrate our Big Book.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating the pictures for our Big Book</td></tr>
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We would like to thank Ms. Li for all she has done with our class this term and are looking forward to helping her complete her projects with us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-40291237362033117002014-03-30T15:01:00.000-07:002014-03-30T15:46:37.692-07:00Pattern Block creations<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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This month we have been looking for various shapes we see in structures we are making. One of the favourite activities the kiddos enjoy are creating figures with the pattern blocks. We are seeing lots of detail going into these creations and stories are beginning to emerge.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The transformer is battling in the night.</td></tr>
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Here is what we have.<br />
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So beautiful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Christmas morning and we are getting lots of presents that are under the tree.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-65530054784487798972014-03-30T12:32:00.000-07:002014-03-30T12:32:15.494-07:00A full week at the BakeryWell a few weeks back we saw the opening of the Bakery.<br />
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After careful planning of the sign, several students took part in creating a beautiful sign to be posted above the Bakery Store.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating our Sign for the Bakery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bakery all set up for customers.</td></tr>
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Several more students continued to bake cupcakes. Learning about the oven and safety was a priority. Even though this is a pretend oven, we took the opportunity to work with the students to engage in conversations around the safety of hot elements. We never open the oven doors without a parent or teacher with us - IT IS HOT. We always use oven mitts to take out hot items.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Be careful it's HOT!</td></tr>
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Another area of learning occurred around the area of social skills. We needed one of the educators to sit with the students in order to model respectful standing in line waiting for our turn at the counter, the server had to engage the customer with a question "What would you like to buy?", and the customer needed to reply with oral language to describe the type of cupcake they wanted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating menus for the Bakery.</td></tr>
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We had lots of practice using the Bakery these past few weeks and have added menus and more types of money.<br />
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This was a very popular centre, encouraging learning experiences in oral language: many of our kiddos are now confidently ordering cupcakes and paying for their purchases. Other kiddos have learned how to work as a server and cashier using specialized vocabulary in all areas.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-64364264888630674992014-02-19T19:26:00.001-08:002014-02-19T19:26:20.083-08:00The Cupcake BakeryOne of our students came to us with an idea to change the house centre into a bakery. We questioned her about what she thought we should bake and she excitedly explained her idea about cupcakes.<br />
Her enthusiasm was so contagious that more kiddos joined in the conversation and it got myself so excited to begin the process.<br />
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We decided that we would need to make the cupcakes first for sale, before even laying out the storefront. I may have had a little input into this first, as I love the idea of making cupcakes and all the art possibilities for this. I also didn't want the kiddos to lose interest in not having the opportunity to make the cupcakes right away.<br />
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Our first step was to make the playdoh together in order to review the concept of a recipe. Everyone enjoyed getting their hands sticky with the mixture before it formed the dough to become our playdoh with various colours. Wow - I went back through all my pictures and can't believe we were having so much fun and had such sticky hands that I forgot to take pictures - Sorry!<br />
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Our next step, once I had searched out some of the key materials for baking the cupcakes, was to form them and decorate them. All the kiddos in the class want to take a turn at this centre. Too bad we don't have enough time in a day for everyone to get through, however it is teaching them how to be patient and take turns. Great Kindergarten skills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the cupcakes are taking shape. Love the decorations. One of the kiddos said "so delicious!" Great word.</td></tr>
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While some kiddos are continuing to make more cupcakes, we have a few friends working on the sign for the bakery. We are planning and practicing what we want it to look like before creating the good copy on the Bristolboard for hanging. This is helping us with team work and cooperation making sure everyone is included in the poster creation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planning and practicing for the real sign.</td></tr>
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While making the cupcakes, this is a good chance for us to ask math questions relating to how many cupcakes each of us can make if we have 12 wrappers? We are getting lots of talk with numbers, using one-to-one correspondence, counting by 2s and making groups of 6.<br />
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Meanwhile, other kiddos have been busy at work making a cupcake factory to speed the process along. They have created a machine that started out as making cupcakes, however has since expanded into making several other things. Good time to introduce making a list.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What else can we make in our factory?</td></tr>
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Our plan for next week will be to set up the bakery. Please stay tuned for the Grande Opening.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-27093629705133394012014-02-19T19:09:00.001-08:002014-02-19T19:09:35.385-08:00An Update on our BunnyIn these past two weeks we have seen an increased interest again in the bunny. Is it perhaps because the documentation is visible on the wall at all times, rather than in a document binder?<br />
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Several students last week began asking what Hop does on the weekends while we are at home. I asked them what they do while they are away for the weekend and several kiddos replied with the things they do.<br />
Played with my sister.<br />
Played dolls.<br />
Played outside in the snow.<br />
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We brainstormed some ideas of what they thought Hop might like to do for fun. Then I encouraged several kiddos to draw their ideas onto a large piece of paper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This friend loves Hop so much!</td></tr>
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This week we have taken the inquiry into another venue, where several different kiddos have been creating house, parks and zoos for Hop to visit. <br />
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I hope you enjoy watching the video of Hop exploring some of the constructions the kiddos have made for her. We are continuing to create more play places this week.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-26803658040869003622014-02-05T16:18:00.000-08:002014-02-05T16:18:06.864-08:00Dumplings for the New YearLast Thursday, our school hosted Our Chinese New Year celebrations. As the actual Chinese New Year fell on Friday, we decided to hold our celebration the day before. Many of our students stay home on the actual day as they little ones often stay up last on the eve of New Year's and this is the day to begin fresh and new.<br />
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To begin, several students from the older grades have been practicing a dragon dance. For a few weeks now we have glimpsed them creating the movements for their dance and practicing the drums. As they made their way down our hallway, the students became very excited clapping and dancing with the dragon.<br />
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In preparation for our classroom celebration, we have created a poster for the New Year. Several students were engaged in slowing the process down. Before picking up the paint brushes to add colour to the poster, we had them brainstorm what they wanted it to look like first. More students joined in and too were encouraged to think before painting.<br />
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Inside the classroom, several kiddos were engaged in drawing the many icons related to Chinese New Year. We had one boy teaching the other how to draw a dragon.<br />
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Returning to the classroom, we were fortunate to have several community members and family join us in making dumplings. Prior to making the dumplings, our class made an anchor chart for the steps involved in dumpling making. This was a great way to reinforce procedural writing using an authentic activity.<br />
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All the students and family members were involved in the dumpling process. We had wraps to roll, wraps to fill, wraps to fold and pinch, and dumplings to cook. Lastly, we had dumplings to taste! Yum!!!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">It was a great day having our families so involved in the learning process and teaching the K teachers a little bit of Chinese.</span><br />
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Thank you to everyone who participated.<br />
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We are looking forward to having our first Family Friday this week.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-65504658411088169712014-01-21T19:23:00.000-08:002014-01-21T19:23:33.783-08:00Chinese New YearMany of the students in room 109 will celebrate the Chinese New Year on January 31st this year. We have started an inquiry into what this celebration means and how different parts of China celebrate this day.<br />
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To begin our inquiry we brainstormed things the children know about this day and the traditions associated with it. Many of the students talked about the special lanterns hung everywhere. We did a little research to find that these lanterns have several mythical stories behind there meaning.<br />
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Another popular icon of the Chinese New Year is the Dragon Dance. Upon further examining the Chinese have 2 dances - one for the dragon where several people help to make the dragon dance using poles to move the dragon to the music, and the second is the Lion Dance where 2 people are the lion (inside the head) and they create a very artistic and acrobatic dance. We decided to create our own version of the dragon and lion to put on our January tree. The students take pride in showing this to their parents and grandparents at the end of the day during pick up time.<br />
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Many of the students associate the red fans with Chinese New Year. After some research the teachers realized that the fans aren't really associated with New Year's, however the children love making them so we included them as part of our decorations.<br />
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We have talked about the different kinds of foods found at the Chinese New Year table. This will surely lead to dumpling making next week.<br />
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As many celebrations vary throughout the different parts of China, over the next week we will try to find out the exact locations our students come from. Stay tuned for more discoveries.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493158783926378925.post-35677832725428896522014-01-05T10:13:00.000-08:002014-01-05T10:13:12.379-08:00The Gingerbread GirlLast year many of our kiddos experienced the Gingerbread Man running away from our students after we baked him.<br />
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Again this year, we read several of the "Gingerbread" character stories and chanted the various refrain during the rereading of each book.<br />
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As we read, some of our Butterfly kiddos questioned whether this year's cookie would also run away to the library as in the past year. This sparked several stories amoung the kiddos during playtime.<br />
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On the Wednesday before the holiday break, I brought in all the ingredients needed to make a gingerbread cookie. The kiddos were intrigued by the various ingredients and several of the measuring tools needed to create our cookie mixture.<br />
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We had lots of oral talk around words like: dough, mixing, stirring, teaspoon and tablespoon, cup and 1/2 cup. Many of the kiddos were really intrigued by the molasses. (Honey from black bees????)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First we washed our hands<br />and talked about the ingredients.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the eggs.</td></tr>
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Together we took turns adding ingredients, and mixing the dough. Finally it was time to shape the gingerbread cookie. After a brief conversation, it was decided that we should make a Gingerbread Girl as the Man ran away last year and maybe if we made a Girl she wouldn't run.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing the flour to make dough.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using the teaspoon to add the<br />baking powder.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the candy decorations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She tasted good!</td></tr>
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In she went, and to our surprise, she too ran away. Many of the kiddos, thought to check out the library where the Man had run last year. No such luck - she wasn't there. We searched and searched the school and asked several teachers to no avail. Then upon entering the office to talk to the Principal, low and behold there she was reading the book about the Gingerbread Girl.<br />
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We took her back to our classroom and each had a piece to taste. YUM! She was delicious.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11755410004226196258noreply@blogger.com0