Orca 3's This Thursday November 27th

 

Unicorn 3am, 4pm and Orca 4's This Friday November 28th

 

 

 

 

Children are encouraged to wear their pajamas to class. Classes will be going to the Gym and then enjoying snacks and a Movie.

Orca Transportation!

 In the Orca room this month, the children have been busy exploring the theme of Transportation!!  Everything from trains, planes and automobiles.... all the way to ferry boats, city buses, bicycles and everything in between!

Driving over letters! 

 Fine motor skills, pre-writing (letter tracing) and pre-reading (letter recognition)

 

Airplane sensory bins!

 

 

Transportation memory game that turns into an airplane runway!

 

 

 

 

Lots of play with the car garage! 

Excellent opportunities to practice turn taking skills (negotiation/reasoning; impulse control).  The teachers have observed some wonderful co-operative play that involves imagination and maturing socialization.

 

Train cutting and colouring

 

Group play in the dramatic area. 

 We've transformed this area into a garage, complete with tires!

 

Vehicle wash station!

 

 

Stay tuned for more, as well as pictures from the Four-Year-Old field trip to the Translink Depot!

A is for Apple!

Our "Letter of the Week" curriculum kicked off with a bang!  The students were activiely engaged in exploring a variety of "A"- themed activities.  Show and Tell with "A" objects was a hit and each class came up with fantastic "A" words at group circle time!

 

Friday, November 14th: Letter B

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building a Capital A

 

 

Alligator Art! 

Ripping and gluing is great fine motor practice for little fingers.

In class this week.....October 27th-30th

 

 

Helping Hands!

Some of our 3 year olds had a wonderful time exploring some cooperative play!  The slide became a space for a group of the students to take turns working together to pull their friends up.  Great teamwork, Unicorns!

 

Halloween Prep

Some students working together to help construct our Monster Bean Bag Toss boards

Monster Eye Bags on the light table.

(Filled with sparkly gel, coloured gel and google eyes)

The children used fine motor skills to manipulate the bags and roll the eyes to the surface.  They all enjoyed this sensory activity!

Halloween Shapes.

Categorizing and counting.

Literacy (letter and word recognition), fine motor writing activity.

Light table pumpkin exploration!