Mme Godin's Kindergarten Blog: This Week In Kindergarten!

What a fun way to learn new words. Mme Godin played music and we passed an object around the circle. When the music stopped, the person with the object held it up in the air and together we named the new word in French. This week we learned the word "le cercle" (circle).

Hard at work in our colour booklets.

The children made an apple print with red (rouge) paint.

Colouring all of the circles on the paper "rouge".

Playing a math game with Mme Godin. The first team to reach the end of board was the winner.

We are also practicing to name the colours in French. Each craft stick has a different coloured circle. There is also one craft stick with the words "Oh-Oh!". The object of the game is to name all of the colours before picking the Oh-Oh stick. If we pick the Oh-Oh stick before all of the colours have been named we have to put all of the sticks back in the container and start all over again.

Mme Page, our school division numeracy coach was at our school this week. We played many games with her. She will be back in December and March. Here the boys and girls are showing the correct amount of fingers to match the number on the card.

The student holding the card did not see it. He had to guess the number he was holding by looking at the number of fingers the other children showed him.

We also had to make a group of friends to match the number on the cards.

Hard at play.

The boys and girls continue to explore all of the toys in the classroom.

They are making new friends and learning to share.

After sitting at the carpet for a while we have fun moving. The boys and girls are learning to listen carefully to the words marche (walk), cours (run), saute (jump) and danse (dance). When Mme Godin says "Arrete", the children have to stop.