Increasing Phonological Awareness and Letter Recognition

Our students, especially our JK students, continue to work on letter recognition and phonological awareness (knowing the sound a letter makes).  One of the many learning tools we use is the Jolly Phonics program.  This program matches hand signals with the letter sound.  This helps the children remember the sound that goes with the letter.  If you follow the link below you will find a YouTube video that goes through all of the letter sounds and shows the hand actions.  Play this for your child and see if they can do the hand actions! Have fun!

Jolly Phonics

Doctors in the House!

We have had a lot of kids away over the last 2 weeks because of illness. Don't worry! The doctors are taking care of it right in our own classroom. Today we discussed the importance of washing your hands. We practised singing the abc song or counting to 20 when we wash our hands. Also we discussed covering our mouth when coughing or sneezing. Mrs. Hawkins demonstrated how germs spread all over when they cough or sneeze using a handful of pom-poms. Germs went everywhere!

Magnetic Power!

The children are experimenting with magnets at the science area. Carter is looking at how one little magnet is holding all the other magnets and Nathan is discovering how the little magnets are picking up magnetic objects in the jar. Nathan is discussing how the N (north) sticks to the S ( south). But the two N's won't stick together. We talked about the word repell!

Our Winter Tree Is in Progress!

Story Time!

Mrs. Hawkins was reading the story I Wish I Was a Butterfly written by James Howe. It's a story about a cricket who was very envious of the butterfly and wanted to be a butterfly. But the cricket started to chirp and realized how special he is too. He can make beautiful music! We discussed the word envious!
We have been discussing how we can make and keep friends. Yesterday we had to say one nice thing about everyone in our class. Many said that someone is nice because they like to play or they are nice. We will continue to work on this to see if the children can see special qualities about each one of us. We will be creating a book about this. We will post it so stay tuned!

Sorting!

The children are sorting by size and colour at the water table. Logan noticed that the hearts are different colours and different sizes. They are all the same shape though.

Marshmallow sculptures!

The children are busy building 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects using toothpicks and marshmallows.