This week in Kindergarten we tried not to blow away with the wild gusts of wind that blew through late in the week. We were very excited as we had the opportunity to watch a "Spring Concert" dress rehearsal for the Grade 2's and 3's in the gym. We are hoping that all of the Spring singing will encourage Spring to finally come and stay for a while.
This week we learned all about the letter Y. We know that Y can make a bunch of sounds and we went on a "Y" hunt in our classroom. We are such good writers that now when we go on letter and word hunts - we can copy the word and draw our own pictures to go along with it. We also learned about a mountain dwelling animal- a Yak! What a funny word to say. We learned a few things about Yaks and even practiced drawing one together.
Along with the letter Y, we made our own Yarn Art. We engaged in "process art"- which is art for the sole purpose of creating art and bringing enjoyment. We created our own designs using all different types of yarn and lots and lots of glue and paint. We have our own Yarn Gallery in the hallway that has been growing. It looks incredible. Kindergarteners are fantastically creative artists.
We continued to explore the 5 senses this week by engaging in a "Yummy" and "Yucky" smell experience. We learned all about how our nose works, how we smell things and why our sense of smell is important. Then we smelled lots and lots of smelly stickers and determined whether our sense of smell liked it or did not. We noticed that everybody has different preferences when it comes to smell- everyone's brain thinks a little different- and that is cool.
Lastly, we celebrated "Earth Day" this week and learned all about how we can help work together to do small things to help keep the Earth clean and cared for. We made our own plasticine Earth's to help us to remember to try our best to show love to the Earth.
In centre time "The Friendly Flower Shop" dramatic play centre opened and the Kindergarteners have been having lots of fun ordering, selling and arranging flowers. We also have been building big block structures, creating art with plasticine and pastels, making butterflies and playing lots of board games. We also worked together to complete our biggest classroom puzzle yet- 200 pieces! Wow!
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