This morning the AM Kinders were very lucky to have a special guest speaker in. Felix's Granny, Mary Hays visited our class. Mary is a well known storyteller and author. Mary shared both stories and poems from all around the world with us this morning!
We learned that oral stories are stories that live in our heads and our hearts.
We really enjoyed listening to her stories. Our favourite stories were the 3 Billy Goats Gruff and the story about the lion and the mouse (Felix played an active role in this story which we all really enjoyed)!
Thank you for taking the time to share your captivating stories with us this morning, Mary!
Letter Oo
Todays letter is a vowel - we learned that when a word is a vowel it says its NAME and its SOUND!
Jolly Phonics letter O (starting at 4:18)
Students practiced printing the upper and lower case letter Oo and then took part in a directed drawing of an octopus.
Texture
Today our learning table jobs were focused around textures and what something feels like!
Students were invited to explore various items at their table and decide what they feel like.
Are they:
- smooth
- rough
- hard
- bumpy
After exploring the items, the students were invited to pick on item that they could describe to the class.
AM Class
- Blaire: It feels soft like a polar bear (piece of felt)
- Kayleigh: It feels soft and bumpy like a bunny’s tail (cotton pad)
- Kylie: It feels cold and hard like my car when the ice was inside the window (rock)
- Lee: It feels rough like a pumpkin (pine cone)
- Felix: It feels like sand it feels soft like that (sand paper)
- Dante: It feels soft and smooth like a stone (gem)
- Owen: It feels hard like wood, it is wood (wood round)
- Kieran: It feels bumpy (beads on a string)
- Evan: It feels soft like a feather from a bird (cotton pad)
- Almira: It feels soft (feather)
- Ellis: It feels soft like a feather because it is a feather (feather)
- Sophia: It feels like a nice soft guinea pig (feather)
- Jaxon: It feels bumpy and smooth like a bumpy tree and a smooth rock (sand paper)
- Adrian: It feels bumpy and smooth (sand paper)
- Avianna: It feels soft like a blanket, a leaf blanket (feather)
- Zoe: It feels soft like a feather (feather)
PM Class
- Jackson: It feels bumpy and it reminds me of a bead necklace (string of beads)
- Andrew: It feels soft like a feather that fell off a bird (feather)
- Alister: It feels bumpy like a bead bracelet that I have at home (strong of beads)
- Benjamin: It feels hard and smooth (rock)
- Ayla: It feels rough and hard like a pinecone because it is (pinecone)
- Doris: It feels soft like a pink bird flying and dropping feathers (feather)
- Vianna: It feels like diamonds and feels hard (a diamond jewel)
- Elijah: It feels hard and rough like wood from a tree that someone cut down (tree round)
- Logan: It feels pokey and reminds me of a picture i drew at home (pinecone)
- Izakai: It feels hard and reminds me of my bed (sand paper)
- Jaden: It feels bumpy and rough like a real diamond but this isn’t (jewel)
- Lyla: It feels hard and rough (string of beads)
- Roman: It feels soft like it came from a bird (feather)
- Jager: It feels soft even though it’s a stump and reminds me of my comfy warm bed (wood piece)
- Ava: It feels smooth like my nana and papas bed (rock)
- Amreen: It feels soft like my mom and papas bed (rock)
- Farzanna: It feels hard and a little scratchy (wood piece)
- Blakely: It feels like my bed and pillow (feather)
- Emma: It feels soft and it reminds me of my blanket that I love a lot (feather)
PM Kinders had PE and Music today.
Rock Stars of the Day
Our first two Rock Stars came prepared and excited to share with their class what they had learned about their family and their name. Many students made connects with their favourite family traditions.
Volunteers Needed for Novemeber 26th morning & afternoon
* Both the AM and PM Kinder classes are looking for 2 volunteers each to help out on November 26th.
If you are cleared to volunteer and would like to spend the morning/afternoon (depending on which one your child is in) with us please email me at kaytaylor@cbe.ab.ca
You will be helping all the kinder classes during their Food Impact presentation - it does involve quite a bit of help with food prep (cutting pitas, vegetables etc)
* More information regarding this day will be sent home the week prior to Nov. 26th for all students - I just wanted to let any potential volunteers know ahead of time
Reminders:
- Friday is PM Kinders
- We are still accepting food donations to the Veterans Food Bank. A sincere thank you to all the families who have brought in donations!
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