Sunday, 31 January 2016

Working with Shapes

This week, we had fun working with a partner to create pictures using shapes.
Here are our stories...

T & R
This picture is a character in Star Wars. We used a hexagon and a diamond for the sun. We see circles, triangles, and squares. There  are 4 sides on a diamond and 3 sides on a triangle.


R & D
We made friends who are rock stars on 
stage. They are playing a song. We used a hexagon for the head and a rhombus for their bodies. We also used trapezoids for the stage. A trapezoid has 4 sides and a triangle has 3 sides.


A & S
 We made a beach. We used diamonds for the water on the bottom and hexagons for the sand. In this picture we used diamonds, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons. A hexagon has 6 sides.


A & C
We made a forest. We made trees, a bee, and a butterfly. We used squares, triangles,  and trapezoids for the trees. We used a hexagon and a diamond for the bee, and squares for the butterfly. A diamond has 4 sides and a triangle has 3 sides.

J & K
We made houses and a tree. We used triangles, and squares. A square has four sides and a triangle has three sides.

O & E
We made a big bee hive and there is only one bee in there. We used triangles, hexagons, diamonds, trapezoids, and squares to make this picture. A diamond has 4 sides and a square has 4 sides.

A & A
We made two snowflakes. We used diamonds, hexagons, squares, and trapezoids. A hexagon has 6 sides and diamonds has 4 sides.

L & J
We made a bear next to a tree. The bear will get honey from the tree. We used squares, triangle and trapezoids for the tree. We used a hexagon, squares and a triangle for the bear. A square has four sides and a diamond has four sides.

N & N
We made 2 flowers in a garden and a sun. We used a hexagon and diamonds for the sun. We used triangles, trapezoid and a pentagon for the flowers. A triangle has 3 sides and a diamond has four sides.

R & N
We made two people. We used squares for the legs, trapezoids for the arms, and a hexagon for the head. A hexagon has 6 sides.

M & S
We made 2 deer walking in the grass. We used triangles for the grass. We also used diamonds, triangles, squares, and a hexagon to make the deer. A hexagon has 6 sides and a triangle has 3 sides.

T & D
We made burgers. There are only chips in the burger. We used hexagons for the buns and squares in between the hexagon. A square has 4 sides, and a hexagon has 6 sides.


Friday, 22 January 2016

Our Week in Kindergarten January 18 - 22

Dear Families,

We are back and we have been busy! Here are some projects that we have been working on through the month of January.


Footprints and Winter fun!
We liked tobogganing this week. There is a small hill near our parking lot. We used red sleds. We also went on a nature walk and found bunny tracks and other footprints too!

Water Cup Challenge
We measured 16 cups in all. We used water to measure. Some cups looked small and some cups looked big. We measured small, medium, extra large, large, and extra small. 

Our Map!
We wanted to know more about the world and the places that our friends, families, and teachers have been to. We have 53 countries on our list of where people at our school have been. When we get a new country, we find it on our map and put a sticker on it. 
We will be asking our families soon!


Paw Patrol Station
Our Paw Patrol Station has a mural of Adventure Bay. We have dog treats if the pups are hungry and a flat screen to show the team where the danger is. We also have a tent for a dog house. 
Each pup has a mask and a necklace to help us identify the pups. We finished Marshall's fire truck and we have his red fire hat too. We hope we can make a hat and vehicle for each pup.
We also made a Patrol Poster so everyone can learn the character names. We really like Ryder.


Construction Land

Construction Land is a little world we are making. Construction Land has a zoo, homes, a doctor's office, roads, and trains with train tracks. Next we need some cars. 
We made the roads out of paper and to make it stick we put tape. We made the houses out of bricks and blocks. We labelled different places in Construction Land so that we can tell our friends what we did.
Construction Land even has a hide out! It is for playing hide and seek.

Love,
The Bluejays

PS - Stay tuned next week...A Puppet Show is coming soon!!