Halloween
has arrived on our kindergarten classroom. Decorations, spooky sounds
and Halloween activities are so much fun in kindergarten! Here are a
few of the cool things we've been working on:
Math: Ordering pumpkins by size
Sketching and painting freely are important ways that we express our creativity. We do this often in kindergarten. We also like to do DIRECTED DRAWING. It involves following steps to sketch an object. It helps us to follow directions, practice our visual discrimination (what is different from one step to the next?), strengthen our fine motor control, and practice our lines and shapes. Here are some shots of us drawing in our writing/sketch journals.
We started our Halloween centres:
Pumpkin floor puzzle
POKEY
PINS!!These are my FAVOURITE way to work on fine-motor
skills. The kids use a pushpin to poke holes in a shape (we did a
jack-o'-lantern). When they peel off the top paper and hold their image
up to the
light, they can see the picture that they created with their holes. It
is an especially effective way of strengthening the same muscles that
they use to hold a pencil
Directed drawing
Jack-o'-lantern faces on playdough
Acrylic beads on mirrors (patterning, fine motor)
We also mixed red and yellow to make orange for what will become bumpy little pumpkins
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