This Week in Kindergarten!

We have been spending lots of extra time outside these last few weeks (weather permitting). We talked about the changes that occur to trees in the fall.

We also talked about coniferous trees (les conifères).

Practicing to name the parts of a tree in French.

La cime (the top of the tree).

We even sang some of our fall songs outside.

The afternoon class getting ready to throw their leaves in the air.

Les feuilles tombent (the leaves are falling).

Once a cycle some of our friends from grade 5 come to play with us.

The grade 5 students are good role models, speaking French to the kindergarten students.

Playing with the trains.

Play-doh creations.

Showing the grade 5 students the magna-tiles.

Setting up the dollhouse.

A large group of children were building with Lego.

Play-doh.

The grocery store.

Waiting for our grade 5 friend to serve us dinner.

We made black cats.  Les chats noirs de la maternelle p.m.

Les chats noirs de la maternelle a.m.

Making sets that are the same as (pareil que), less than (moins que) and more than (plus que).

This week's discovery bins included a Math game.

Halloween lacing cards.

Halloween puzzles.

We finished our line and curve booklets.  I will be sending them home next week.  We will be starting our formal letter and number printing program after Halloween.

We played a colour game with velcro fly swatters.  The first student to bring me the correct colour was the winner.

We dipped a potato masher in orange paint and stamped three circles on a white paper.  The next day the children transformed the circles into jack'o'lanterns (les feux-follets).

The morning class' artwork.

The afternoon class' artwork.