Kindergarten Happenings!

 What a week!  The children did an awesome job this week and I was so very impressed with their writing!  We wrote and illustrated 2 class books this week and the sentences they wrote were terrific.  Everyone is working so hard, sounding out words, including spaces, punctuation and working on neat lower case letters.  I am very proud of them!! 

We also completed some math stations or games to help us with adding one more and adding numbers together.  Students worked with me using a pot of gold and subtraction.  I sat with them to see how quickly and what strategies were helping them to solve the problems.  Everyone is working hard and being successful.  Some of us are able to do it in our heads while others benefit from using manipulatives and taking some extra time to think.  I love that they are using different strategies and doing what works for them!  

 Rock & Roll ~ Some children wanted to play on their own and some worked with a partner.  Way to go girls you should be proud!!

 Subtracting gold ~ Way to work hard boys! 

 Adding one more

 "On a rainy day.... writing and illustrating one of our class books.

 Practicing writing numbers and reviewing some number concepts in a mini math journal. 

 Seussical Jr.  

We enjoyed the performance put on by the 3-5 grade drama club on Thursday morning.  They did a terrific job and the night performance was even better!  I hope you had a chance to see it. 

I know the kids loved it! 

 Daily Five Rounds

 Read to Someone - all smiles when reading with a friend

Working with a teacher. We are very lucky to have Mrs. Fallon join us on Friday mornings to work with the students and help us with our Daily Five rounds.  

 Osmo & computer time

During Daily Five we also include opportunities to work with technology.  

Osmo allows us to practice letters, words and math concepts.  

When we work on the computer we focus on reading skills using StarFall.  

 Work on Writing ~ Today was the first time I included "work on writing" and the children did an amazing job!!  I was so very impressed with the writing they did all on their own!  During this activity the children can write about anything they want.  It was nice to see that even though there was no teacher support, many of the children were able to write a sentence on their own!! Some of them even remembered a capital at the beginning, spaces, punctuation and lower case letters!  I was blown away with the writing they did and once they finish I will send it home so you can be just as proud!!

 Proud of his work!  

A very detailed sentence. " I like to play football with Connor in the backyard." 

 Math with Mr. Flournoy

Mr. Flournoy joins us for math on Tuesdays and Fridays.  

 The children worked with a "Learning Palette" on a variety of math concepts.  They worked in groups of three.  One side challenges them to place a colored disc on the palette as they figure out math problems. The other side shows them where each disc should go so they can self check their answers.  

 "GoNoodle" Kidz Bop ~ one of their favorite movement breaks is dancing along with the Kidz Bop group!  They love to wiggle and shake!  

As you can see we had a busy week. We were sad the snow festival was cancelled but we managed to fill the time with some fun!  The snow is melting pretty quickly and a lot of mud is taking its place.  Please keep that in mind if your child is bringing snow gear to school.  A lot of the gear was still soaked on Friday after playing on Thursday.  You may want to wash &/or dry their things before an odor appears.  

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!