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Posted: October 14, 2015

Groovy Letter G!

Gordo Gorilla was hiding in the fancy G g bag! Ask your child what else was in there. Did they remember the glasses? the Groovy girl and the gold necklace? the garbage can? the ghost with a guitar wearing glasses? Good for them! Check out the gorilla song that taught us interesting gorilla facts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QkwLkkgUY We are learning the word go tomorrow and watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaKQ9dVk1U Don't feed them too many Gummy Bears or you may need to do this dance to wear it off!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hn61z3FlMQ We listened to The 3 Billy Goats Gruff and a few stories with a ghost - Halloween is coming!

Posted: October 8, 2015

Math games!

The district math people sent us some sites for math games - you may want to paly them over the long weekend! http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/preKMath.html The Halloween games section: http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/halloweenMath.swf

Posted: October 8, 2015

Did you ever see a teacher kissing a creature? More rhyming fun!

The children had a great laugh over Raffi's version of Down By The Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSxGHve60E Mrs. Henderson shared this link for a frog rhyming game too: http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html Eric Herman also rhymes in this "Ants in your Pants" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWycl8vR5c The children are catching onto rhyme now - thanks for practicing at home too!  

Posted: October 1, 2015

Allie Alligator, Apples and the Letter A!

Allie Alligator came to visit and fill us in about the letter A. Today we learned how to make an upper case A and a lower case a. Check out this link for the song that helps us with Allie's sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tif2a8vXeAA  We liked the Story Bots "Horray for A" song too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3guwWkqlaGc  We are learning about apples so we are ready for our field trip on Tuesday. You may enjoy singing this cute apple song together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmFHRrkFuQ

Posted: September 30, 2015

"Short i" Word family links

Our Grade 1 "Making Words" lessons are including the hard-working vowel "i" now. Here are some links to word families with /i/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReFMtEr3mU Can your child read the words without the sound? The Big Pig song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOu-QkmInKc The "it" family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXOqvax2Gc

Posted: September 30, 2015

Do you think B is the best letter?

What a lot of words begin with the letter B b!  We heard lots when we read about bears, blew bubbles and chewed bubblegum (don't tell Mr. Henderson!) The Dixie Chicks think there is no better letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRgPrZCLms  You may want to Boogie with the Story Bots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hGFJW3LZ98  Lots of B words in the B b Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdfUMGlyg-c  The children liked watching the bear catching a salmon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lo0b-AciM

Posted: September 17, 2015

We love to rhyme all the time!

Kindergarten has been rhyming while Grade 1 learns that rhyming words are often spelled the same at the end. Here are some rhyming sites to explore with your child: Professor Garfield: http://www.professorgarfield.org/phonemics/introcharacters.html And Reggie The Rhyming Rhino: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/

Posted: September 17, 2015

Patterns!

Kindergarten knows lots about sorting in math class so we will be patterning like our Grade 1 buddies! You may want to check out this You Tube link for a collection of pattern videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HIn3X14inI&index=1&list=PLP-T4lbplP2Pu1Y... We will be making patterns with sound, pictures and real life objects.

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