Teddy Bear Day

Today was teddy bear day!

Everyone brought in an animal friend to spend the day with us. 

(Most bears behaved themselves and kept out of trouble.) 

Our bear friends went just about everywhere with us and did just about everything with us, the exception being going outside for recess and washroom visits. 

Here's a sneak peak at some of today's happenings:

The bears helped us deliver mail to the office.

We compared and sorted our friends by fur colour, clothing, type of animal, and size.

Our animal friends helped us put the 

teddy bear express back in order.

We brought our friends to the gym to play some games.

(Slightly challenging with the BIG bear!)

We made teddy puzzles.

We enjoyed some delicious bear treats with our friends!

It was a BEARY good day!

Review Week

There are several "Review Weeks" planned throughout our school year, and this week just so happens to be one of them! 

We are reviewing all of the letters that we have covered so far this year: Ss, Aa, Tt, Ii, Pp, Nn, Cc and Kk.

We play a wide variety of games during the week, including such things as Letter hunts, Around the World, Where's the Bear, Letter/Picture Sorting and we also practice our Jolly Phonics songs and actions. 

Autumn Write-the-Room
(contains first 8 JP letters)
 can be found HERE or HERE. 

The Jolly Picture Sorting activity
 can be found at both
my TPT store or my TN shop.

We have three rotating math centres this week, and since yesterday was a school spirit dress up day, 

Curious George, Princess Rapunzel and Thing 3 were playing a Bear shape matching game:

Bat man, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella were working on a Brown Bear number activity:

And our Firefighter, Cinderella 2 and Batman 2 were playing a Roll and Cover game:

Everyone in the class dressed up.

Such school spirit!

Way to go!

O-R-A-N-G-E

We celebrated the colour ORANGE yesterday and everyone in the class was wearing our colour of the day.

Our orange art work involved an introduction to shading.

We sang our O-R-A-N-G-E song
(to the tune of the Farmer in the Dell),
and then we went to work practicing our new skill...

Pretty amazing work for 3 and 4 year olds, don't you think?

If you'd like this freebie, click on the pic above.

If you would like to see some other posts on pumpkins, click HERE!

Fall Walk 2013

We were blessed with incredible autumn weather yesterday on our JK/SK combined class trip to the conservation area. 

A trip with the SK class = double the fun!

The sun shone through the clouds and the rain stayed away.

Several parents came along to enjoy the outdoors and the beauty of God's autumn masterpiece.

The children were divided into groups, each of which had both JK and SK children.
Every group was given a list of items to find and/or collect, and most of the children found everything on the list! 

I must admit, Olivia's grandpa was the hero for many of us when he spotted the fuzzy caterpillar!!!

Our walk ended with some play time at the park playground.

Much thanks to the many parents who came along, and to our wonderful EA, Mrs. VanderWier, who was also our very dependable bus driver. :)

The afternoon was filled with exercise, fresh autumn air, crunchy leaves, acorns, pine cones, smiles, loads of giggles and laughter, and much much more!

Team work

Checking an item off the list

"Sticks and swords should be on that
scavenger-hunt list. . ."

Looking for creatures in the water

Having mom along = The Best!

Look what I found!

Making bark rubbings

Enjoying an autumn swing 

Don't those smiles say it all?!?

For the Truck-Lovers

One of the newer letter sorting packets I've made is the 

"Jolly Construction ABC Sorting" packet.

(Perfect for the construction/truck lovers in my class!)

It contains sorting sheets for all the letters of the alphabet,

in the order that they are introduced in the Jolly Phonics program.

I love this simple sorting activity because it combines a number of skills: scissor, letter recognition, sorting and gluing!
It uses a great combination of spacial ordering, language, and neuro-motor skills!

This was the first time we completed the activity this year, and the children were very proud of the end result!

Some of us like the combination of messy and learning. . .

  

(Each sheet contains both upper and lower case letters.) 

You can find this item {HERE} or {HERE}.

Free Choice Time!

We had some time to explore and create . . .

check it out!

"It's my kitty!"

"Look at my rocket-ship!"