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

This week's Discovery Bins, included, a winter themed memory game.

Memory games are a great way to practice new French vocabulary!

Another group of children played the alphabet game that I introduced last week as a large group activity.

Taking turns and helping our friends name the letters of the alphabet in French.

A penguin math game.

The first player to fill his ice block with ten penguins wins the game.

Strengthening our fine motor skills by picking up tiny wooden cubes and placing them on top of the matching cubes on the cards.

The students made many beautiful designs.

Circling the core (le motif) of the pattern (la régularité).

The morning class playing "Bingo d'hiver".

Introducing a new math problem to the whole class with mitten manipulatives. The children are learning different ways of making the number 5 ( 5 blue mittens and 0 red mittens is the same as 5, 4 blue mittens and 1 red mitten is the same as 5). We will continue to explore this problem as a whole group and early next week the children will demonstrate their learning to me individually.

Printing the number that comes after a given number.

Circling the core (le motif) of a pattern (la régularité).

The boys and girls are hard at work counting the buttons on the snowmen.

Earlier this week, the children completed the colour "blanc" in their colour booklets. They made "le nuage blanc" ( a white cloud).

We have been learning positional words in French (sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de) - on, under, in, in front of, behind, beside.

Storybook characters playing together on Friday.

Sandbox birthday cakes.

So much crafting and artwork.

A special creation on the light cube.

Today's guest reader was Mme Heather. She is a librarian at "la DREF" which is a special library at the University of St. Boniface for teachers. Can you guess which storybook character she was?