Sorting by shape, colour, and attribute

One day this week, we proposed a problem to the class. We told them that we had a BIG problem and needed their help to solve it. We wanted to sort these buttons but did not want to sort them by shape, so we asked them what other way we could sort them. After one child suggested we sort them by size, we labelled 3 sheets of paper SMAL, MEDIUM, LARGE/BIG. Then, we started to sort and eventually divided ourselves up into groups with different colours of buttons. We worked together to sort them.

 Another morning, we discussed sorting by attribute. We wanted to separate the magnetic shapes by holes so we stuck all of the letter without a hole (or an o) on one side, and all of the ones that has one on another.

 After lunch that same day, one of our friends suggests that we sort them by colour. So we did!

 This was another activity we worked on this week. Sorting letters into two categories. Which ones were in our name and which ones were not in our name.

We have also been exploring light and shadows using the projector.

We were so impress by what she did with the pattern blocks, that we created a name challenge in our class to see who else could make their name using the pattern blocks.

 We did a 'rite the room' scavenger hunt, which the children really seemed to enjoy. Their mission was to find all of the words hidden in places around the room and record it onto their sheet.

We also wanted to thank one of our friends and his mom for bringing in Wonder sticks for our class. Thank you!

Hello November!

We ended off the month of October in our cutest little costumes for Halloween!

Followed by some themed activities that were intentionally set up as fine motor strengthening and patterning fun!

This year we took home our treats:

We continued on with patterning:

 And continued 'camping out'

 And enjoyed 'roasting marshmallows, thanks to one of our parents who brought them in for us:

 We traced our hands to make campfires and decided to decorate our door with them. Then the children said that we needed a sky, a sun and some grass, so they decorated away:

During our carpet meeting, we told the children that an animals footprints had been left behind at our camp site. WE wondered what type of animal it could have been. After awhile of guessing, we showed them a picture of 'Richard' the raccoon who just so happened to leave us a little note: 

 And so, after brainstormed, we left him this note:

Last but not least, we danced the day away on Friday at the Dance-a-thon!!

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!