Jolly Picture Sorting

We braved the scissors and glue today and did some fantastic work on our first Jolly Picture Sorting activity. 

You can find this activity {here} or {here}.

As I was giving instructions and explaining the activity, I heard a few students say, "I can't do that"! 

They didn't need to fret, because they proved to both themselves AND their teacher that they were very capable of following multiple instructions. I think they did a fabulous job!

This is what they did:

1. Put their name on the page.

2. Coloured the pictures.

3. Cut the pictures out.

4. Sorted the pictures according to initial sounds.

5. Glued the pictures in the correct place.

WAY TO GO JK'S!

I WAS VERY PROUD OF YOU!

Thanksgiving Turkey (handprint activity freebie)

Here's a sweet Thanksgiving activity that I am doing with my kiddos this week!

You can find this freebie {here}  or  {here}!

Enjoy!!!

Here are this year's flock of turkeys:

"Pp" Week

It's "Pp" week in JK!

Penguins, popcorn, peanuts, pie, pumpkins, Penelope the pig, pears, pancakes, presents...I could go on and on...

In light of our LOTW (letter of the week), I thought it only appropriate that we enjoy all the centres that begin with "Pp" or at the very least contain that letter!

We are learning about "Penny the Penguin",

...puffing out the candles on the pink pig cake, 

singing about Penelope the proud, pretty, plump, pink, perfect pig, 

and more importantly, "Praising the Lord"!

In Bible, we are learning about Abraham and the promises of God, and in math we are making patterns.

Lots of fun "Pp" stuff going down in this class!

Oh, did I mention the pink and purple polka-dotted nail polish?!?

All in the name of education...
AB patterns baby!!!

I hope you all have a perfectly peachy and peaceful week!

Thanksgiving Week

It is the week leading up to our Canadian Thanksgiving, so we are doing a few Thanksgiving-themed activities in our class.

I invited the children to bring in autumn and/or Thanksgiving items that they would like to share with the class. 

They could bring in things that they were thankful for, or items that represent things or people that they are thankful for (ie: a family picture, a dog collar b/c they are thankful for their dog).

I've had a few items trickle in, so our display has begun to grow.

Our book of the week is, Franklin's Thanksgiving by Paulette Bourgeois. We will be reading this book each day and doing various activities to go along with it.   

The book begins with Franklin and his parents receiving news that his grandparents won't be able to come over for Thanksgiving dinner. Franklin and his parents each secretly invite surprise guests over for dinner and at the end of the story they have an incredible outdoor dinner with their special group of friends. 

Today, we talked about visitors or guests that we might be having over for Thanksgiving and foods that we might be eating. 

FYI: Franklin loves "pumpkin-fly pie"! Yum Yum!

This afternoon, I asked each child to tell me something that they were thankful for, they made illustrations of them and then we hung them up for all to enjoy!

"We thank you, Lord for cheese, flowers, polly pockets, babies, pizza, trampolines, supper, rain and birthdays!!!"

Autumn Dot-Art and a Good-Bye

Autumn is here, the leaves are quickly changing colour and some of them are already falling!

In light of our new autumn theme, I thought we would get into the spirit and make some fall art.

I gave the children Q-tips, as well as green, yellow, orange & red paint, and they did a little dot-art painting.

Here are our autumn masterpieces:

We also had a little farewell party complete with some extra outside play time this afternoon. 

(Our class had to say goodbye to our dear friend Nathan who is moving away tomorrow.)

We enjoyed some delicious treats outside in the wonderful fall sunshine, 

I love discovering new peanut-free treats!
(Costco find)

and God blessed us with the most beautiful weather to enjoy on our last day together.

We wish Nathan God's richest blessings as he settles into a new community, church, and school.

We will miss you a lot and we will be praying for you!

We love you Nathan!

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Watch Me Grow!

We made our first entry in our "Watch Me Grow" self-portrait scrap book today!

Each month, we will be drawing a picture of ourselves.
I always enjoy seeing how the students' drawings develop over the school year!
This book makes a great addition to the 'ole "keep-sake" box.

Here's a sneak-peak at a few of our entries!

"Tt" is for...

Towers! We are making patterns......

Learning about AB patterns.......Made these all by ourselves!!!

Our weekly "In my name/Not in my name" game...
We only have one student with a Tt in their name!

Trays of Playdoh!!!

We couldn't get enough of the Playdoh this week...

Alex's "constellations..."

Tonight  I made trays of coloured rice for 

a new sensory table centre!!!

The only problem is that my son is having a lot of fun with it and he's gonna be sad to see it leave this house!

"Tt" is for:

Too much fun in this JK class......