Kindergarten Happenings

We began our week with a buddy activity using tangrams.  The children worked with their buddies to fill in some pictures using tangrams, created their own animals and tried to complete some shape challenges.  They had a great time exploring and working with their buddies.  

 Work boards: 

Cate is working on CCVC words.  

The children had the choice of using cards & magnetic letters or writing the words on a sheet.  

 States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, Gas

We talked about, explored and learned about the different states of matter.  

Below is a picture of the children getting ready for a liquid race.  They had to predict which liquid would be the fastest and the slowest.  We used shaving cream, water color paint & glue.  We also did a class sample using baby oil, poster paint & soap.  The kids loved this activity.  

 Making it rain.  We also observed ice melting and the steam exit the hot pot.  

 STAR STUDENT:  Cate was our star student this week.  She did a great job sharing her pictures and information sheets.  She also enjoyed sharing a few things from home.  A book she enjoys reading, stuffed animal and a tangram puzzle she has.  Way to go Cate!  You did an amazing job!!

 Daily Five in action:

Listening to reading ~ sequencing the story with pictures

 Practicing sight words in our sight word book

 Stamping sight words 

 Tangram puzzles with ozmo

 Math with Mr. Flournoy ~ practicing subtraction with base ten cubes

 Ella passed in a show and tell coupon and brought in a book about her 1st birthday!  She did a great job sharing the pictures and it was super fun to look at!  The kids got a kick out of it!! 

 Mystery Reader ~ Thank you Mrs. Muldoon for coming in on Tuesday!  

Will was so super excited to see you!  I heard all about it!!  

Group Photo ~ Their favorite part!!  

We had a great week!  We earned many marbles and received compliments for teachers and the substitute on Wednesday.  I am very proud of them!  

Kindergarten Happenings!

Here are a few pictures from our very short week!  Looking forward to a full week this week.  Your child may feel tired towards the end of it as it is one of the very few full weeks we have had since December.  I also wanted to let you know, I will be out on Wednesday because I am attending a  K-2 Statewide Literacy Conference.  

 Practicing sight words

 write the room addition

sorting nouns & verbs

CVC words

snowman subtraction

 finding the parts of 8 using chips 

 exploring with tangrams

Kindergarten Happenings!

First full week back and it was a busy one!  On Monday we wrote in our journals about the extended snowy weekend. This was a good practice for the winter writing prompt that we did on Tuesday.  Wow, was I impressed with the writing prompts!  They did an amazing job!! Everyone wrote a sentence phonetically on their own.  It was truly awesome!  Here are a some pictures from our week!  

 Writing prompts: I was very impressed with their work. We earned a bunch of marbles too! 

 Practicing addition with Ipads and chips.  We worked on adding the two parts and finding a missing part. Finding the missing part was a bit challenging. Way to go Hunter!   

 Putting sentences together.  Will is organizing sentences and attending to capital letter at the beginning, punctuation and if it makes sense.  Nice work Will!

 Counting and graphing pictures.  Practicing most, least and addition.  

 Sorting syllables.  Tapping out parts and words can get tricky.  We sometimes mix up sound segmentation with syllables especially with those one syllable words.  We will continue to practice both concepts throughout the year.  Way to work Michael!  

 Three Little Pigs STEM activity:  They loved this and couldn't wait to get started.  We read the story, talked about being architects and then got started on our plans to build a house a wolf couldn't blow down.  Some children decided to work in pairs and some chose to work alone.  It was a lot of fun! 

 Making plans

 Working on building

 Making Little Piggie masks

 Testing the structures with Mr. Wolf the blow dryer.

The wolf did not blow down many of the structures but did get a few. The students then worked together to see how they could make their structure stronger.  

 

 Working in groups and talking about character, setting and problem.  

They did a terrific job with this activity.  

Writing words with short e. 

 Winter fun at recess!  They just love the big hill of snow!  

 Fine motor practice with broken crayons and small designs. 

 Practicing lower case letters v & w.  

 We learned about Martin Luther King Jr.  They each had a dream to write and illustrate.  

They came out great.  

 Happy birthday Cameron!  We hope you had a wonderful day and enjoy your birthday weekend!  

 Subtraction:  WE have moved onto subtraction but will also continue practicing addition.  The children worked using chips and a white board to write and solve subtraction problems. 

 Mystery Reader:  Thank you Mrs. Brodeur! Dominic was very excited about his mom being the mystery reader on Friday!  We enjoyed the story Corduroy and having you!  Thank you so much!!  

 And of course a group photo!  

We had a great week!  Have a wonderful weekend!