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Showing posts with label valentines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentines. Show all posts
The kids have been busy making patterns, seeing connections, playing with geometry, using their fine motor skills, co-operating and being creative this week.
Our heart geoboard was a popular spot.
Our heart geoboard was a popular spot.
One of my favourite friendship books is about a penguin and a pinecone.
It's a wonderful story about the love between friends.
It's a wonderful story about the love between friends.
Penguin and Pinecone
author and illustrator: Salina Yoon
publisher: Bloomsbury USA (2012)
My kindergarten kids were drawing hearts everywhere (that they weren't supposed to).
So I cut them a deal; they would cease and desist drawing hearts all over penguin projects, and we would do some cool heart art.
So I cut them a deal; they would cease and desist drawing hearts all over penguin projects, and we would do some cool heart art.
100 hearts.
That's enough to bring some Valentine's fun to a neighbourhood roundabout.
That's enough to bring some Valentine's fun to a neighbourhood roundabout.
Bright colours, handprints and hearts.
A perfect painting project for February.
I have been wanting to do an Andy Warhol art project with the kidlets for a while. With some inspiration from Create Art with Mel and Artolazzi, now is the time.
A perfect painting project for February.
I have been wanting to do an Andy Warhol art project with the kidlets for a while. With some inspiration from Create Art with Mel and Artolazzi, now is the time.
There is just so much potential for a Valentine's sensory bin.
The question is when to stop - not where to start.
The question is when to stop - not where to start.
I asked my husband what children's books made his voice a little gruff and his eyeballs sweat a bit.
His without thinking about it answer was
His without thinking about it answer was
Happy Valentine's Day!
We mailed Valentine's cards. I kept the kids from eating all their candy before they went home. We played running games in the gym with our big buddies to burn off any candy that they ingested without my knowledge.
We made Friendship Fruit Salad.
Each child brought a cup of cut up fruit to school. We took turns putting the fruit into a large bowl and enjoyed fruit salad together. I brought the whipped cream!
We have been practicing reading about the friendship fruit salad. Tomorrow the kids will write about the fruit they put in the fruit salad using the pattern from the pocket chart.
We mailed Valentine's cards. I kept the kids from eating all their candy before they went home. We played running games in the gym with our big buddies to burn off any candy that they ingested without my knowledge.
We made Friendship Fruit Salad.
Each child brought a cup of cut up fruit to school. We took turns putting the fruit into a large bowl and enjoyed fruit salad together. I brought the whipped cream!
We have been practicing reading about the friendship fruit salad. Tomorrow the kids will write about the fruit they put in the fruit salad using the pattern from the pocket chart.
happy hearts to you!
Just so that Valentine's Day doesn't get too pink, frilly and mushy, I like to throw an explosion in the mix.
Well, not quite an explosion, more like an eruption.
The link is that Valentine's and volcano both start with V. So, I figure it's all good. And there's always room for a good eruption.
Both these books have amazing photographs of actual eruptions. The Simon Seymour book includies some before and after photos of Mount St. Helens in Washington State.
The first eruption, I already had the baking soda inside the volcano (a recycled glass juice bottle taped onto an upturned plastic flower pot, padded with newspaper and covered with a black garbage bag). I poured in the vinegar and we all enjoyed the eruption.
Then we made science out of the "magic". I explained how baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid, and that bases and acids don't get along and when they are put together they explode. Hopefully that very "kindergarten explanation" will help them in grade 10 chemistry!
Happy Valentine's Day to all.
Well, not quite an explosion, more like an eruption.
The link is that Valentine's and volcano both start with V. So, I figure it's all good. And there's always room for a good eruption.
Both these books have amazing photographs of actual eruptions. The Simon Seymour book includies some before and after photos of Mount St. Helens in Washington State.
This was the best Youtube clip that I found.
Then we made science out of the "magic". I explained how baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid, and that bases and acids don't get along and when they are put together they explode. Hopefully that very "kindergarten explanation" will help them in grade 10 chemistry!
Dollar stores are full of little heart erasers around Valentine's Day.
They are no good for erasing, but they are great for patterning.
I made some pattern cards for the kids to build their pattern on.
And one wee sweetpea (who is a very good patterner) thought that the erasers would be more beautiful in a heart.
happy hearts to you!
Last week the kidlets made love bugs so that we could take the snowflakes off our tree.
The kids were given love bug raw materials - squares, big hearts and little hearts in a variety of colours and thin black rectangles.
I love seeing the creative process, the interaction and sharing of ideas when the kidlets are given the same materials and let loose to create.
The kids were given love bug raw materials - squares, big hearts and little hearts in a variety of colours and thin black rectangles.
And then they created. The love bugs were as individual as the children.
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