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Thursday 19 May 2016

Learning Update

No I am not dead nor have I joined a cult that forbids the use of blogging as a way of communicating. I am just busy getting my butt kicked by a bunch of 5 year olds.

Seriously guys this year is HARD!  I am struggling to fit everything in and that includes blogging :( please forgive me!

On the other hand I have been super busy in the classroom and I wanted to share some of the things we have been doing while I have an hour to myself (yes I know I should be writing reports.....but I don't want to).


We have been all about trying out new technology in our classroom.  We are very lucky to have received and Osmo and some Touchtronics letters and numbers for our Prep room.  The kiddos love how interactive it is and it has now become a favourite hands on ipad activity.

We have been heavy on counting activities as well!  We have used lots of different objects to count below you can see our counting penguins which the kiddos love. 

  
counting penguins

Adding "river rocks" to help dinosaurs cross the river
Another favourite activity was laying river rocks across a river to help dinosuars cross to the other side.  The kiddos loved it so much I had to leave it out for over a week.  The kiddos rolled a dice and then laid the glass stones end to end, only one dinosaur could cross one bridge so they had to do it multiple times.  The aim was to get as many dinosaurs across as they could.


Threading washers

I also had some bolts, washers and nuts out in a tinkering tray, the kiddos had to thread the washers onto the bolts and then put a nut on to the end to secure it, they then had to pass it to a friend to check, have you noticed the fine motor practice I sneak in heehee.


Balloon Pop!

The last activity I wanted to share with you is a game I made called Balloon Pop to 10, this is great for counting forward to 10 and backwards from 10.  Just click here or on the pic for your free copy.



As you can see in this next pic, we love reading to our Book Buddies :) we do this multiple times during the week in different contexts.  These littles are reading their take home readers prior to them going home, we also use our book buddies during guided reading and free choice reading.



I hope to be back in a week to share some more fun learning from our classroom......who am I kidding, see you in a month haha. (unless I join a cult)







3 comments:

  1. Looks like you're having a ball with your kiddos, Tania! (And yep, those Preps will kick your butt and leave you exhausted!) Thanks for Balloon Pop! And I'll totally be borrowing a few of your ideas for my kids, too!

    Stef
    Miss Galvin Learns

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  2. Oh my goodness! I love love love the dinosaur crossing game! what a great idea! I've got to write that down somewhere and do it next school year! I want to tell you that as I was browsing blogs I read the your first few sentences and was hooked! I had to see what else you had to say, glad you came up for air long enough to send this into the world. Thank you! Paula @ educatingchildrenwithdisabilities.blogspot.com

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    1. Thanks for your kind words Paula :) I am hoping to get more on top of things now. We do have reports coming up so that might mean my posts will still be erratic. I would love to see some pics of your dinosaur game when you play it, my kids loved it!

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