By the End of Kindergarten 1 - Language Development

-Speaks clearly (in complete sentences)
-Able to follow verbal directions
-Recognizes rhyming sounds/words
-Looks at pictures in a book and makes up a story to go with them
-Identifies the beginning sounds of some words
-Recognizes some familiar words in print (such as STOP on a stop sign or a familiar store’s signs)
-Uses language to categorize words (a cat is a type of animal)
-Uses language to describe words (a bus is big, yellow and has lots of windows)
-Uses language to define words (a pencil is something you write with)
-Expresses feelings and emotions in words
-Recites or sings familiar songs/poems
-Writes using pictures or familiar letters

The Three Little Pigs

The three little pigs

The three little pigs went off to build houses of their own

the wolf huffed and puffed and blew the straw house down

the wolf huffed and puffed and blew the wooden house down

 

But he could not blow the brick house down!

He climbed down the chimney and there was a big pot of boiling water waiting for him!

Choose my plate song - Tune of Born this Way - Lady Gaga

Silly Sandwich song

Cereal song

Spaghetti Painting

Today we had a great time while painting with spaghetti! We discussed about different types of pasta and about how eating it, gives us energy immediately. 

Spaghetti painting was a great sensory activity where the children could explore and feel the spaghetti's texture and mix it with the paint. There was also room for surprises as we discovered new colours when we mixed Red, blue and yellow. It was very messy and so much fun!