This past week was busy with lots happening in our FDLK classroom. Our snail/mealworm inquiry met with many inquiring minds and busy hands. We decided to put up a version of the KWL (what we know, want to know and what we learned) chart with adapted titles that we "borrowed" from our Pinterest friends (Our Kindergarten Journey blog). We also included some snail books in the centre and a basket with pencils and post-it's to record their thinking. I asked the children who visited this centre to think about what they are seeing/wondering about when they observe the creatures and to draw a picture to post. I said that I could write their thoughts down for them so they got to work.
I am hoping to get lots of questions and theories for us to look at. So far we got a few!
Halloween Week 2013
It was also Halloween, a Canadian tradition where children dress up and trick or treat from house to house to get candy. Ms. Switzer and I decided to transform our drama centre into a "Spooky House". I asked the children what they would like to see in our house so they gave me some ideas. They mostly wanted costumes and decorations so we gathered up whatever we could find.
The children had fun dressing up and pretending to be superheroes, vampires, and princesses.
We also did some fun crafts, fine motor and sensory activities.
Little bumblebees were stringing Fruit Loops to make necklaces.
Some tigers and Transformers made Halloween shapes in shaving cream.
We baked yummy chocolate chip cupcakes too.
Some budding writers got to write about their day.
We are looking forward to next week's investigations. We didn't have time to carve our pumpkins so we thought we'd continue next week and see where that leads us!!
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