Our literacy centres are up and running!

We started our literacy centres yesterday.  They will help the kids practice a variety of literacy-related skills on a daily basis.  Three of them will change weekly to go along with our themes and to help keep the kids engaged.

Activity: La coccinelle est rouge.

Lire, dire et écrire: Find the words, read the words, and write the words

les couleurs

Word Work: Letter Beads

Listening to Books:

The kids use a QR code scanner on the iPad to pick a story.  It takes them to a website to listen and 'watch' the book that they chose.

Reading in our Classroom Library

Hooray for Math Centres!

Carter was our 'étoile de la journée' today.  The star of the day gets to help with teacher jobs.  We use this game to work on reading the letters and learning the sounds in all of our names.

We started our math centres today.  They will get changed every two weeks after the kids have had two chances to do them.  They will also be tiered to match the skills that each child is working on so that they will never be too easy or hard. These centres are so much fun and offer tons of hands-on learning.

Ordering numbers and linking them

Sensory bin: Sorting colours

Playdough Mats

Number Identification: Où est mon goûter?

 

Counting and Colouring

Technology: Unreliable ... but always fun!

We got the interactive whiteboard (the SmartBoard) up and running after some technical difficulties yesterday. The kids loved playing with our 'giant computer'.  We popped bubbles to help us get to know our new friends' names and the kids also got to write on it during free play. 

 

Second Day Pics

Well, we've survived another day in kindergarten!  It was another fun-filled morning.  We went out for our first 'recess' and the kids did such an amazing job following the rules that I am predicting that we will be going out with the big kids sooner than I had planned.  My little morning group is picking up the kindergarten routines and rules quickly, and I am so proud of them.  Enjoy a few more pictures of the kids playing with their new kindergarten friends.

 John and Zade

 Ethan and Carter

 Jayden

 Shea

 Jack

 Joel and Sam

 Madden and Joel

 Londyn

Diora

 

Olivia and Kacie B.

 Sadie and Sophie

Londyn and Bronwyn

 Carter and Wynn

Londyn, Diora, and Kacie B.

Jack, Madden, and Joel

Ethan and Zade

Jack and Kacy H. D.

 

Bronwyn and Jayden

 Bronwyn and Madden

Zade and Carter

Joel and John

 

 Wynn

 Shea and Sadie

Olivia, Kacie B. and Zade

Olivia, Kacie B. and Madden