I’ve decided to compile all of the little things I make over the month for my class and post it as a freebie at the end of the month! This is the first file! Here is what you can find in the download: Some of my kids have been constantly asking me to help them…
Just wanted to pop in and share something I made for our division to send home over the winter break! I originally saw this idea on The Kindergarten Connection. I changed the task to meet the needs of the kids in my classroom. Click on any image below to download the file! For most of…
This is a little late but I wanted to share our writing piece that went up on our WOW Work (writing) wall for October. First, the kids brainstormed their favourite activities and I wrote them down on chart paper. Then I put these activities out at centre time and walked around and took pictures of…
For the last couple weeks, we have been learning all about what a community is, places in our community and community helpers! After we learned about different places in our community, the kids decided that they wanted to turn our dramatic play centre into a pizza restaurant! Then they came up with things they will…
Happy Friday! I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week! It was Anti-Bullying Week in our board this week. First we defined bullying and talked about how bullying is not just when someone is mean to you once or when a friend makes a bad choice a couple of…
I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for my first Five for Friday post! I finally have enough pictures from the week to do one of these! Here we go. On Tuesday we had our Rememberance Day assembly. It was organized by the 7/8 teacher and she did a fantastic job! One of…
I love teaching 3D figures because the kids love it too! Here is how I teach it! On the first day I tell them that I have a special surprise. I put a party hat, tennis ball, can of pop and a dice in a bag and pull them out one by one. Then I…
*If you would like to see what I did for patterning in 2015 click here* This week was all about patterning! The FDK expectation for patterning is… P4.1 identify, create, reproduce and extend repeating patterns through investigation, using a variety of materials and actions. First I introduced them to our patterning anchor chart that we…
*If you want to see what I did for 2D Shapes in 2015 click here!* Week 3 and 4 was all about 2D shapes in math! I like starting with 2D shapes because it is something that most of the kids already know and feel successful about. Here is the plan I made to keep…
Phew! Although there is no tired like beginning of the year teacher tired, I have to say that I have a really lovely class. We started the week off by reading “Chu’s First day of School”. In the book Chu’s teacher asks each student to say their name and something they love doing. So after…
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