Kindergarten Happenings!

What a week!!  The children have been working really hard and trying their best.  We have been very busy learning about rhyming, syllables and word awareness in sentences. These concepts will be practiced and reinforced the entire year.  Some of the children are grasping it more easily than others, but that is expected.  We will differentiate along the way to help those who need a little more support and to challenge the other students.  In math we have been focusing on numbers to 5.  This includes writing, counting, recognizing and showing different ways to make numbers.  A huge concept that was introduced was whole & parts.  For example taking the number 5, which would be the whole, and breaking it into different parts (2 and 3, 4 and 1, 0 and 5).  We will continue to work with this concept, as well as, the concepts of equal, greater than and less than.  Here are some pictures from our week!  

 Throughout the week, we worked with 2 - 3 children at a time, to show them the correct formation of letters when writing their names.  Many of the children write their names using capital letters, which is great!  We are just beginning to show them how to write using an upper case and lower case letters properly.  In time this will be the expectation so we like to take baby steps and start trying.  Way to work hard and concentrate boys and girls! 

 Matching upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. 

 Alphabet arc ~ There are so many ways to use this fabulous tool.  Mrs. Fallon worked with small groups on letter matching, saying the alphabet correctly, and identifying letters & sounds. She then challenged some students by giving them a picture and seeing if they could hear the sounds in the word (not to identify letter/sounds) but to hear the number of sounds.  

For example, when given the word bus.  She would say slowly.    B - U- S and using chips to represent 3 sounds heard.  

 Mr. Flournoy came in to work number concepts.  Seeing & understanding 

numbers can be shown in different ways and arrangements,  

 Working on a number book.  

 Ipads ~ The top picture the children are using the Handwriting without Tears ap to practice number formation.  The bottom picture shows students using the show me ap to practice numbers, showing quantities and identifying which is greater & less. 

 CHOICE TIME

 Puppet Theater is open! Using our imaginations to put on a show.  

Practicing being a respectful audience.  

 Playing with the princesses! Another creative thinking activity! 

 Zingo game where we can practice sharing and taking turns.  

 Glitter bug - germ lesson.  Mrs. Amaral came and read us a story about germs.  Afterwards we got to put some special glitter lotion on and look under a special light.  We saw GERMS!!  Then we washed our hands and looked again to see how most of the germs washed away!  

 Comparing numbers with Mr. Flournoy.  

 Thank you Mrs. Lee & Mrs. Coleman for decorating our school doors!  What a wonderful, welcoming sight.  It puts a smile on my face each morning! We are lucky to have such wonderful parents in our school!  

 A little time with books.  

 Practicing Read to Self, one of our Daily Five activities.  

We were able to build our stamina to 5 minutes!!!

 Ways to make 5!  Using chips and then showing the different ways with our hands as well.  

 Popcorn - matching quantities & numbers.  

 Upper and lowercase letter matching. 

 Ways to make 5.

 A game of headbandz.  

 Another great puppet show.

A chance to use the computers.  

As you can see we had a very productive and busy week!  Keep up the terrific work boys and girls!!  

Have a wonderful weekend!