We had another amazing week at school filled with so many fun activities and centers. Here is a look back on some of my posts from this past week (I try to post everyday, so if you want to see everything, make sure you follow me!) Our students were finding potato bugs (as they call …
Tag: art
Canada Art in Kindergarten
For our school’s Canada 150 project, our class was assigned to do artwork inspired by the province Nova Scotia. Our students were so interested in learning more about our country that we decided to explore some other Canadian provinces and territories. We started off by looking at British Columbia and the artwork by Emily Carr. …
Have Fun with Chalk!
Are you looking for a fun summer activity to do with your students? These chalk task cards are a great way to provide kids with direct, purposeful outdoor play. It contains 30 task cards with literacy, math and science activities they can do with chalk! There are colored cards, and it also includes a black …
Sight Word Blue!
While learning the sight word blue- we decided to let our students create their own shade of blue, name it and describe it. I didn’t know how interested the students would be to create their own colour, but it turns out they were really excited to do it! We started off by just giving them …
Letters V & X Centers
We are finishing up our letter study this year with our last two letters! It is pretty exciting when our Junior Kindergarten students finish learning the alphabet and start writing. It opens up a whole new world to them and they gain so much confidence in their skills. Our letter V center was pretty simple, …
Leaf Man Invitation to Create (with Freebie)
We read the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert this week and after finishing the book, we let the students create their own leaf creations. They could make whatever they wanted (they mostly wanted to make dragons) and use whatever materials they wanted. After finishing their creations, we had them write a story about their …
Spider Activities
I made some brand new centers for Halloween this year. I know I’m late posting this so I am going to offer it as a freebie…. For now! If you wait until next Halloween to download it, it will be too late and it will only be for sale in my Teachers pay Teachers store! …
Letter ‘N’ Art
Our students have been learning all about the letter N this week. We have learned how to write it, make its sound and have come up with a list of words that begin with N. As a conclusion on our letter N learning, we made some artwork: We began by collecting pine needles to make …
Invitation to Create- Fall Painting Idea
Fall painting idea: invite students to create their own warm-colored fall inspired painting. Teach about warm colors and inspire creative thinking with this fun art provocation. I love giving my students different ways to explore colours, different textures, painting tools and to allow them to be creative. I set up this invitation to create a …
Invitation to Create
This year for back-to-school we are focusing on getting the students in our class to recognize and write their names. We chose the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes to help students with this. We did a lot of centers around name writing, Pinterest has so many great ideas (like this or this). For our art …