Canadian Coins

All about Canadian coins!

The first day we introduced coins with the red group we gave them sorting trays. Most of our friends sorted by coins and a few friends sorted by colour. 

When we introduced the coins to the green class we decided to only put out coins and see what the students would come up with. 

Rehema: "I'm sorting them. I put the same coins on the same ones"

Alicia "I'm going to shake them and then see how many are heads up"

Cole and Alicia decided to play a guessing game with the coins. One friend gave clues while the other friend had to guess the name of the coin. 

Allen made a square using different coins and Rhaven made a tower. 

 

 Janelle and Annika decided to copy down our coin poem. 

  

Some of our friends were printing the names and values of the coins at the writing centre. Silena made a pattern with the names of two coins (penny, nickel, penny, nickel).

Matteo used our classroom coin pictures to test our friends. He gave different clues about each coin and chose friends to guess the coins. 

In class we have been watching a video on Canadian coins by Michael Mitchell. If you are interested look up the video at home and have your child tell you the names of each coin. 

YouTube video: Money in my pocket by Michael Mitchell

Scientists in School

Today our students had so much fun as they participated in our Scientists in School presentation entitled Winter Wonders. Take a look at our "Kindergarten Scientists" in action......

  

" I needed to feed the animals. The blue jay ate the bugs" Caleb

"I was hearing bird sounds and I got to make bird food for the birds in the winter" Joshua

"The woodpeckers like to eat spiders and the cardinals eat berries." Adam

     

" I loved when I made the snowflakes" Priscilla

" The snowflake looks like a hexagon" Keira

" We had to find the snowflakes using a magnifying glass" Yafeat

    

    

          

       

" We were looking at how animals live in the winter. We learned about how animals hibernate in the winter." Madeleine

"Bunnies change their fur for winter. They turn white." Hannah

" Squirels collected seeds because they needed food for the winter." Guiliana

"The chipmunks had to collect food before they hibernated." Matteo

   

     

  

"If we put the ice on our hands we would be cold. If we put the ice on the mittens then we wouldn't be cold." Fatina

"We were checking to see if it was hot or cold." Maximus

"I was checking if the weather was warm or cold with a thermomator." Munesu

    

"That snow comes from clouds. Snowflakes are very soft and make a littlenoisewhen they touch the ground. Sleet are very hard and they make a loud sound when they hit the ground." Carter

"I was holding ice in my hands and it melted because it was hot inside." Adrian

"We put ice on our hands and it felt cold then we closedourhands together and it melted. Our hands made timely because they were hot." Destin

Valentine's Day Activities

These are some samples of our Valentine patterns.

 

Annika's pattern is "big, small, small".

 Creating our Valentine's Day card bags. 

 

We are printing words that are associated with Valentine's Day. 

For Valentines we created a flower shop in our dramatic play centre. We will be introducing coins. 

 

 

These are some of our hand made flowers out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners.