Kindergarten Happenings!

Here's to another great week!  We began the week with four new work boards, journal writing and some rounds of Daily Five.  Once again we had another successful week!  Enjoy the pictures from our week!

 Hunter is completing an activity call inventory bags.  This activity focuses on counting objects with 1-1 correspondence, recoding the correct number & showing its quantity.  We worked with bags containing items #'s 5-10.  

 Cameron is illustrating in his journal.  This week we wrote about something we would do to stay safe during a fire.  

 Dominic & Norah are tapping out syllables in words.  The paws have pictures on them and the children tap out how many syllables (parts) are in the word. Then they put the clothes pin on the correct number of syllables.  This is also great to build muscles in their fingers.  

 Arianna and Catie are working on finding the picture that has the same beginning sound as the larger picture on top.  For example, net has the same beginning sound as tomato, nest or hat.  The child would clip the picture with the same sound.  

 STAR OF THE WEEK!!

Aviva was the "Star of the Week" this week.  On Monday she brought in a Dr. Seuss book and read it to the class.  She was very excited to share the book with everyone and we all were very proud of her reading.  On Tuesday, she shared her "All about Me" pages and family photo page.  Many of the children had some connections with Aviva as she shared with us.  Way to Go Aviva!  You did a terrific job!! 

  

 Michael, Arianna, Aviva & Ella are playing a math game called "Racing Bears".  The students use bear counters, chips and a die to play this game.  They roll the dice and move their bear up.  When they reach the top, they collect a chip and continue play.  The children seemed to enjoy this game. 

 Josie is working on estimating jars.  We had the children look into a jar and estimate how many objects were inside.  Afterwards, they counted to find the actual amount.  We had some wonderful guesses and it was a great way to assess if the children are understanding numbers & quantities.  It was also helpful to practice number writing and show correct quantities.  

 Thank you for helping your child complete their homework on a family meeting spot.  We had another discussion on this and many of the children seemed more comfortable knowing what to do and where to go.  They did a fantastic job sharing their pictures and telling us about their meeting spot.  We discovered that some of us have the same type of meeting spot!

 HWT ~ Handwriting without Tears ~ We began learning how to write some upper case letters.  The first letters of focus are called "Frog Jump" letters because they begin at the top with a straight line down.  Then you "frog jump" to the top to complete the letter.  We practiced writing in our HWT books and using our HWT ap on the ipad.  

  PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS!!!

The children were very excited to pick out a pumpkin from the truck.  A great big THANK YOU to the Lion's Club for bringing the pumpkins to BMS and sharing them with us.  We haven't sent the pumpkins home yet, as we hope to do a special something with them.  

 Off we go....We are headed to the fire station!  Luckily we got a beautiful day for a walk! 

 Looking at the trucks and asking questions. 

 Future Fire Fighters walking through the new ladder truck! 

 Sitting in front of the new ladder truck. 

 Cate is using the Telian Lively Letters to build real and nonsense words.  I would say a sound, the children would find it then we worked on blending the sounds together.  They did an awesome job!!

 Kacie was excited to use my pen to write her numbers and show quantities.  She decided she liked it better than the pencils!  

 We hope you have a wonderful weekend!!