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		<title>Adding Literacy to Dramatic Play</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Beside our dramatic play centre, I placed one of our smaller tables, near the windows with my signs for the flower shop.  In the centre of the table, I put a basket of pencils and markers and some blank paper.  When I introduced the centre to the children, I told them the flower shop needed [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Kindergarten Flower Shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Drama Play Centre]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Now that the children have shown interest in flowers, we decided to change our dramatic play centre from a Veterinarian’s Office to a flower store. I went to a store and bought a few bunches of artificial flowers, a small plastic shovel, green foam blocks, and small plastic plant pots.  We had some plastic containers [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tie-Dye Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art Studio]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because we had been making flowers for Mother’s Day last week, there were several children asking if we could make flowers again today.  Instead of repeating the same activity with the handprint flowers, I wanted the children to be able to create a different flower.  I decided to create tie-dye flowers instead. I got large basket coffee [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Bouquet for Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With Mother&#8217;s Day coming up this weekend, we wanted to make a craft for all of the wonderful mothers, grandmothers and special women in our students&#8217; lives.  We decided to create flower bouquets using the children&#8217;s hands as the flowers and green straws as the stems. First, we traced the child&#8217;s hand 3 times.  The [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How Many?</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1792</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Math Centre]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The children in our full day kindergarten class have really been enjoying the &#8220;How Many?&#8221; question charts we have been doing.  So, to build on their current interest, we added another &#8220;How Many?&#8221; chart this week. In our sandbox, we had plastic measuring cups.  I took those out and added red scoops and green sand pails.  [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How Tall Am I?</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1769</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Math Centre]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We have been continuing to talk about non-standard measurement in our full day kindergarten class.  One easy, yet fun activity for the children was to measure how tall they are.  We decided to cut out circles and tape them to a wall.  We also numbered the circles from the bottom up.  This allowed us to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Talking About Capacity in an FDK Class</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1757</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Capacity is not an easy concept for kindergarten children to learn.  In our Full Day Kindergarten class, we have been discussing non-standard measurements.  For capacity, we are using concrete objects to teach the students that capacity means &#8220;how much a container can hold&#8221;. We sent a note home with each child asking parents to bring in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Rainy Day Physical Activities</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1259</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 01:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physical Development]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Children need ample time and activities to develop their gross motor muscles.  In a school setting, there are playgrounds where children can run, jump, climb, and use several muscles during physical activity.  We also have gymnasiums where students can play sports, and games.  However, there are some days that are not easy to give children [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Measuring in our Class</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1740</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Math Centre]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the curriculum goals for mathematics is measuring in non-standard units.  So today, we introduced &#8220;taller/shorter/the same&#8221; to our classroom. To begin, we used myself (5 ft. tall), my teaching partner (5.5 ft tall) and the EA in our classroom (5.9 ft tall) as our visual cues.  The 3 of us stood beside each other [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tap Your Sticks</title>
		<link>http://earlylearningcentral.ca/?p=1703</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Movement]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A great music activity is &#8220;Tap Your Sticks&#8221; by Hap Palmer.  You play the song, and the children can follow along to the lyrics with their wooden sticks. http://youtu.be/M-UKTeWNgOk We did it in our kindergarten class and the children enjoyed it so much, they asked to do 3 times in a row!  I plan on [...]]]></content:encoded>
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