Pizza Party!

What an exciting day! Ryan Crits from 95.9 came with pizza for us today!

The children were reading a story with Miss J. when he arrived. 

Everyone had a chance to say their name for the radio if they wanted to. 

What a great treat! 

Santa Slime

We took our usual Gak recipe and added festive red and green sparkles to make 'Santa Slime' today. 

So much fun to play with and great exercise for fine motor muscles too!

Pajama and Pancake Day

A friendly reminder that this Wednesday is 'pajama and pancake' day. The children are encouraged to wear their pajamas, robes, and slippers to school for a fun day! We will cook a pancake snack together too!

Bricks 4 Kids

Our in school field trip was a huge success!

 

How Many Presents?

Today we displayed some mini presents and encouraged the children to practice counting how many there were by using the tools we've been exploring in the classroom: a hundreds chart and some ten frames.

 

The children knew they needed to start at the number 1 on the chart and add the presents one at a time in order so that they had an accurate number. We discussed what would happen if they randomly placed the presents on the chart.

 

The children also used the ten frames. They knew they had to fill one ten frame up before moving onto a new one.

 

Once the children had an accurate count, they were encouraged to record the number on a piece of paper at the centre. Some children counted the presents using both tools before recording their number in order to ensure their answer was correct.

Exciting News!

A BIG thank you to Desiree St.Pierre who nominated our class for Country 95.9's "Class of the Week"! On Tuesday, December 16 we will be brought a pizza lunch by one of the DJs and the children will have their photo taken for the radio station. Some children might even get to say their name on the radio! Information will be coming home in your child's note tote. If you would not like your child to participate, please let us know. Thank you!

Math Tools

With over 300 food items for our can drive, we are preparing the children for calculating a large amount of objects by using math tools in many situations this week. We presented a counting problem to our children during circle. After displaying some plastic food, the children suggested using a hundreds chart to help organize and accurately count the number in the collection.

 

They carefully placed each object on the hundreds chart...

 

...and were able to tell with every piece what number we were at.

 

When the chart was filled the children realized we had over a hundred items! We lined them up next to the chart to come up with a final count.

On a different day we asked the children to again help us count a large quantity of little vehicles. Our rule was we couldn't count them and couldn't use a hundreds chart. One child knew that 10 ten frames was the same as a hundreds chart, so we placed them on these instead.

We are going to continue to challenge our children by using large numbers. 10 frames and hundreds charts can be easily found online and printed. Why don't you consider counting some collections at your house using these strategies?