Friday 22 April 2016

Earth Week

Welcome to the Unicorn Room
Farmer's Market!

Fresh milk and honey...

...bread, jam, and vegetables...


...even fresh flowers.

A busy day at the market!
Hands on learning about recycling

Recycle or Garbage??

Earth Day matching game

Nature's Garden Light Table

 

Oil Spill Clean Up
Feathers covered in oil need to be washed and cleaned with warm water and soap

 

 

The 3 year old class
works on Earth Day/Nature puzzles
 
 

Letter T Day

Tea Party Time
 

How Tall Are You?

Trucks

Telephone

Turtles and Toads have taken over the watertable

Tyrannosaurus vs. Triceratops
 
 

Counting dragons onto tacos

Touch and Feel
Nature Exploration Table

Teddy Bear Tea Party
at the water table

Painting with Tea
on Tropical Trees

Turquoise Twigs
painting on
Transparent Triangles

 

 
Tangram Letter T

Tuesday 19 April 2016

Letter S Day

Alphabet Soup

Sharing Smoothies!
Adding the fruit we all brought to share...

...and blending!

Our Scooping Station Sensory Bin

Salt art Snails

Letter S Practice
Students used q-tips and fine motor skills to erase capital and lowercase letter s on our white boards

Seasonal and Sealife Stickers

Sock Sorting

Superhero Shape Matching
 
Stir Fry

Star Wars pre writing practice

A special welcome at the door for the Unicorn 4pm class
Spaghetti Sensory bin

S Word felt play

Scissors that Snip!

Splatter Painting
 


 

Orca Room Spring Week 2

Ladybug Art

Painting with Leaves

Ladybug Prewriting pratice


Ladybug tic tac toe

Ladybug habitat sensory bin

Nature watertable

Bee Life cycle

Thursday 14 April 2016

Unicorn Room: Farms Week 3

Farmyard open ended imaginative play with our new barn!

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff
Story retelling and bridge building at the light table

Help the Billy Goats Gruff get to the bridge

Making our own Billy Goats at the art table


The 3 Billy Goats Gruff felt board

Little sponge "hoove" prints at the easel

Helping to plant in our garden

 
Our Farm topic has evolved into discussions about where our food comes from, and what the food groups are!

Fruit Stamping

Fruit and vegetable colour sorting

Healthy Food Choice puzzles

Matching Food to it's Source

Healthy Food Choices Puzzle

Cut and Paste Art
Finding healthy food from the food groups and putting our fine motor cutting skills into use.

Imaginative play in the barn area.
A student is re-enacting a hen laying an egg after our discussions about where food comes from!
 
Grocery Cart matching

Whole Grains collage art

Healthy Food Choices counting

 

Our Food Groups sensory bin
(we even included the "extras/oils/sweets" food group)

Food Group matching
Watercolours on bread!

Overheard:
"I wonder what it's going to taste like??"
"Would you like to finish this, if you like?"
"If that was all black, that would taste terrible."
"A little bit more on the other side. Oh yeah!"
 

Food Group Sorting

Fruit Group Puzzle

Setting the table and matching food to it's appropriate food group

Gummy Fruit Counting

Spin and Match the Fruit

Fruit and Vegetable Sink or Float experiment

Painting with Vegetables
Broccoli and Celery

Kitchen Utensils Art

The Real Mr. Potato Head
Great fine motor practice!

More hands on experimentation with our sink or float experiment

What Makes it a Fruit?  Seeds!
Light table exploration

Little hands helping to rip kale into bite sized pieces for kale chips

Fruit and Vegetable Colour Matching