Brrrrrr! What a chilly week we had as winter returned with its snow and cold wind. Luckily we still had lots of beautiful sunlight pouring in our classroom and a nice warm space inside to play and learn.
This week we focused on the letter "L" and learned all about a celebration called "Lunar New Year". We know what sound L makes, we can print the letter Ll and we can identify L sounds in the beginning, middle and end of words.
We also learned all about Lunar New Year by reading and looking at non-fiction books that show how people celebrate. We used this information we discovered together to share drawings and practice labeling in our journals. We are working on copying words, creating detailed illustrations that can represent information, and using our understanding of letters and their corresponding sounds to "guess spell" and label some words. We know that this year is the "Year of the Fire Horse" and we also saw how people sometimes celebrate Chinese New Years with a dragon dance. We made our own Dragon puppets and learned about how the dance is done.
Labelling is an important step in learning how to become strong writers. The PM class learned all about labelling and why it is important on Friday. The AM class will learn this same lesson this week. We had fun labelling Ms. Bitz and then had the opportunity to label EVERYTHING we could in the Kindergarten rooms. We know how to stretch out our words to listen for different letter sounds. We can write them down as we hear them in words. We can ask our friends to help us. We can look on our letter charts and alphabet pictures to help us too! We loved labelling our classroom- and we did such a good job.
We also played math games, shopped at our "grocery store", created a giant collaborative art project, did lots of painting, colouring, crafting, puzzle making, and block building. We created animal homes with blocks, made giant racing ramps, used stamps to make books and created so many vehicles out of lego.
Here are some pictures from our week:
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