Mr. Zamora's Kindergarten 2011 - 2012 Class: May 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Learning Stations (May 21 - 25) (May 28 - 31)

These learning stations are to be for two weeks due to a certain number of day offs (e.g., Victoria Day, PA Day, etc.)

Literacy Station

Using the poem, Pig in a Puddle, the children are learning the letter 'P'. With a worksheet, they colour their pig and practice writing the letter.

Math Station

The children will determine their patterns for the caterpillar's body based on the pattern being asked on the work card (e.g., AAB or AB) and then they copy their pattern on the worksheet. Children learned to recognice and create their patterns.

Science Station

The science station has the children labelling the parts of the butterfly. During a mini-lesson, I read to them a science fiction text about the parts of the butterfly and we identified and discussed the parts of the butterfly. Children increased their scientific vocabulary in the process (e.g., proboscis, thorax, compound eyes).

Art Station

The art station is a continuation of the art station from last week. After doing their papier mache balls which are the different parts of the caterpillar's body, the children are painting the caterpillar's body in order to make their caterpillars. After that, we will connect the caterpillar's bodies together.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Learning Stations (May 7 - 11) (May 14 - 18)

The week focuses around the famous book of Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It is a great book that focuses on art, math, science and language.

Art Station

This is going to be a very challenging art station that will go on for two to three weeks - making a papier mache caterpillar. Each student is making a roll up ball that they have put pieces of paper on it with lots of glue. Then, it has to dry. It will be a good experiment for the kids to do papier mache.

Literacy Station

This station focuses on the story sequence of the book. I found this fantastic story sequence card sheet on the internet and saw the importance of printing the sheet t in colour. I love the fact that the children loved to cut and paste the story sequence cards on the story sequence worksheet. They loved the story!

Math Station

I constructed this worksheet graph from word document with a lot of pictures taken from the internet. The activity focuses on graphing, counting, number recognition and story recall to accomplish the task.

Science Station

The story focused on the life cycle of the caterpillar. The children were able to read the different stages of the caterpillar from egg to a beautiful butterfly from the book. And based on that, the children would cut and paste the different stages in the life of the butterfly on their worksheet.