Drawing Polar Bears

Sketching and painting freely are important ways that we express our creativity.  We do this often in kindergarten.  We also like to do DIRECTED DRAWING.  It involves following steps to sketch an object.  It helps us to follow directions, practice our visual discrimination (what is different from one step to the next?), strengthen our fine motor control, and practice our lines and shapes. Here are some shots of us drawing polar bears in our writing/sketch journals.

International Polar Bear Day

Thank you for your donations!  The kindergartners collected more than $30 for the Polar Bear Rescue Team.

Actual average size of an adult male paw 

 

Science experiment: the kids held their hands in the snow for as long as they could.

Then we used a bag (within a bag) of lard to protect our hand from the cold.  This simulates the layer of fat beneath a polar bear's skin. 

Actually touching the lard - "It feels like lotion!"

 

J'aime les ours polaires! 

It's a BIRD! It's a PLANE! It's ...

100 DAY SUPERHEROES!!

(Dylan's little brother - Super Voyageur Baby!)

Playing Voyageurs

We learned a little more about Voyageurs today and we did it through dramatic play!!  

Paddling the river

Portaging our canoe

Setting up our tents and fires to cook our bannock

Sleeping and resting

CUTEST VOYAGEURS EVER! (we hit some rough water, everyone survived)

We also had our reading buddies visit us to present their Reader's Theatre.  They performed fairy tales for us: