Yes the rumour is true there are six chicken eggs in our incubator. This month we have been reading and talking about chicks and ducklings. As we read, we began to play a sorting game during lunch. All of the language was generated by the Kinders. The original idea came from Chalktalk Kindergarten's Egg Unit which you can find here. http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.ca/search/label/eggs This week's thinking map is a venn diagram. We played a sorting game several times using a venn diagram and then glued the word(s) onto a paper venn diagram. It was a great way to organize their thinking and review information. The board is low enough that it can be used by Kinders during read the room activities.  Next week I have a box of pictures of animals who either are born alive or hatch from an egg. Students will sort them into the two categories using a t-chart. ...

I have a wonderful student teacher right now who is teaching at 100% which means she is in the room and I am not. I have been missing my Kinders and needed a kidfix. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to teach all by myself in our room for a short time and ooooh it was so wonderful to hang out with the Kinders. I spent some time at the science centre playing a sorting game with two students and then moved to lego for a while and ended up in the block centre building ramps and trying some experiments with our tree blocks. Soooo much fun.  I love my job  :) ...

After finishing my assessment on phonemic awareness I have shifted my program to include more opportunities for Kinders to experience and produce rhymes. Here are a few of our spring  literacy work stations that support continued practice with letters names and sounds, word play and rhyme. Currently we are alternating Literacy and Math work stations every morning.   Pocket Charts I have several pocket charts. This rhyming poem we sing together during morning calendar. I change the pictures and we sing it again using the tune The Muffin Man. Building Words   Kinders use magnets and  letter boxes to build 3  letter words. The word  is on the back making  this a  self checking  activity.(I use a fishing tackle box to sort the letters. Writing Centre This is a very popular centre. It includes spring stamps (insects, flowers...) assorted papers, rhyming word cards on rings, alphabet stamps, alphabet cards, pencil cray......