Mrs. Arsenault's Kindergarten: 2014

Sunday 16 February 2014

Valentine's Day Activities

Writing the Room for Valentine words.

           Another great Pinterest Science experiment. Vinegar, water and food coloring frozen in a heart
           shape. Put them in a dish of water, baking soda and blue food coloring. Watch the reaction.
           Next time I will add more vinegar than water and more red food coloring. We will have a better
           reaction and we may also see more of a change of color in the water once the heart melts.

Sharing a valentine's party with KB. Talk about a reaction! We tried static electricity by rubbing a balloon on hair.

Pete and hearts on a tree in our upstairs hallway and ground hogs and hearts in Cindy's office.

Math and 3D shapes

Making shapes with spaghetti sticks and marshmallows.
Check out the Youtube: 3D shapes that I love (song)

Grade 6 students share story reviews with KA & KB>

They did a fabulous job presenting their stories.

Caps for Sale.

Literacy, Math & Art. Activities for "Caps for Sale"

How many caps can we layer on our head?

Frosty is now a blob!! & Youtube: The Hat Hat song.

Shared Reading

Love the pointing, concentration & the confidence!

Math, Literacy & Science

How Many? Dot plates and a recording sheet.

Literacy: How many words in a sentence?

I LOVE Pinterest!!! Here is a great Science experiment. Making white mud: all you need is water
and baking soda. Slowly add the water until you reach a good "mud" consistency.

Our Year Timeline

Making our Scrapbook Page/Social Studies

Literacy Day in Cozy Corners

Healthy Eating

Thank you Barbie for coming in to share about healthy eating.

Some Learning Center Time

More Science with frozen spheres

Half fill balloons with water, place in freezer, peel off balloon, use salt to melt head to body, cut some felt and voila! Snow-people.

Group Science Experiment

We put a balloon on a bottle, put the bottle in hot water and watched the balloon expand.

Practicing Stop, Drop & Roll

Wednesday 15 January 2014

January 2014

The Mitten work jobs: Art-Color a mitten, glue to a paper bag, add The Mitten characters. Math-tally how many objects fit in your mitten. Science-5 senses play dough and The Mitten play dough mats. Literacy-" ___________ went into the mitten because _______________." Guided writing activity.

Science activity that KB invited us to do with them. Discussing, predicting, testing, recording. Fun.

January 10/14: Zero the Hero and Question of the day: Which of these things in not like the other?

Getting ready for family Literacy: Watching Frosty Grow with good books: students in grades K- 4 are reading books at home, recording the title and author on a snowball and then on the wall. Lots of great reading happening!

5 Frame partner game

Gingerbread/Christmas Unit

Pete the Cat with his Santa hat.

Work Jobs: Science-5 senses with play dough, Math-see the number and build the tower, Literacy-spin the word and color the graph, Art- reindeer antler head bands.

We had so much fun making gingerbread cookies with Mr. Acorn, his grade 8 students and KB.

On our last day we opened crackers to find crowns and stickers.

Social Studies: Roots Unit

Babushka from Latvia where my grandparents and dad are from. A picture of mom, dad, and paternal grandparents. Cat from a family friend. Blue dish belonging to an aunt who babysat me as a child. Cream and sugar dish from my aunt. Nice memento's from family members who are no longer with me (except I am lucky enough to have both my parents with me still)