Wednesday, 25 November 2015

International Travels: Canada, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, France

 
 
Canada
 
Vancouver attractions shape matching
Canadian provinces felt pieces

 
Orca colour matching

 

                                                             Crab and lobster puzzles

 
Artist: Emily Carr

Architecture:
Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge

 
Mexico
 

Giant memory game

Sombrero number recognition and colour matching

Our flag puzzle

Matching colours in Spanish

Mexican flag colour sorting and weighing

Our green rice cacti art

Building the Mayan Pyramids with moonsand
 
Italy

DaVinci Study: Mona Lisa

Cooking pasta sauce

 

A pasta filled sensory bin
 
Brazil

Painting with feathers and creating
colourful macaws

Coconut scented playdough in our Amazon play zone

Amazonian animals
 
France

Monet Study:  Water Lillies

Help feed Pierre!
Fine motor cheese hole punch

Constructing the Eiffel Tower

Painting with lavender brushes

Measuring baguettes and sorting sizes

Crepe alphabet recognition

Patisserie chefs hard at work rolling croissants

Friday, 20 November 2015

International Travels: India

 
 

Rangoli designs for sand art

 
Our Diwali sensory bin with
lentils, rice, flowers and flameless candles

Elephant size categorizations

Building the Taj Mahal with duplo!

Letter B & C Days

Counting Black Beans
 
Bears on "B's" and Boxes

 
Bugs in Blue playdough

 
A Beach in the sensory bin

 
Bluebird Birdhouses
 
Banana Splits!

 
Fill the Butterfly wings with jewels

 
Letter C Day!
 

 
                                                                   Cereal Box puzzles
Cupcake counting

 
Cauliflower painting

 
The Very Hungry Caterpillar felt story

 
Colour mixing at the light table


Wednesday, 11 November 2015

November in our classrooms!

Our group collaborative art project
 

Let's roll the dice and count our way down the airstrip!

 
Gradients of blue....
 
Airplane construction

 
Letter A Day!!
Searching for the A's in our Aquarium

 

Sorting apples into their baskets.
Capital and lowercase letter recognition

Building the letter A with various objects

Our Chris Hadfield  Astronaut puzzle

Tracing the letter A through squishy gel!
Cupcake poppy creations

Big and small poppy sorting

Remembrance Day photo puzzles

In Flanders Fields...
Sorting green, red, and blue coloured gems

The beginnings of our balloon print poppies

Sorting red and black buttons into poppy shapes


Collaborating together for our dove of peace

Poppy number recognition
as well as fine motor poppy lacing
 

Working with clay!
The students squeezed, and rolled, and shaped
their very own tea light holders to celebrate Diwali.