Kindergarten Hapenings!

HAPPY SPRING!! 

Here is to another week!  The children did a magnificent job! Cohort A contributed a large marble to the marble jar for their awesome flexibility and cooperation during our Monday move.  Cohort B earned a giant marble during gym for their amazing work with Ms. Draper!  Way to work hard kindergarten!  We are so proud of you!! 

When I arrived on Monday our room was quite chilly and our heat was broken.  While they fixed the problem and put a few extra space heaters in our room we moved to the gymnasium to begin our day.  The kids did a wonderful job completing our morning meeting, calendar, journal and work board in the gym.  We returned for snack and art to a more comfortable classroom.  We were very impressed with the transition considering it wasn't planned and we didn't have all our normal materials. Great job!!

During math we continued to work on subtraction.  Here is an activity where the answer is written on the large piece of paper.  The students have flash cards to solve and place on the correct answer.  The students were also provided with manipulatives if they wanted to use them to help them solve the equation.  The children rotated between the large sheets and a walk the room activity. 

The other math activity was practicing counting, 1-1 correspondence and number writing. Students walked around the room searching for cards. Once they found a card they would count the pictures on the card and record their answer on the recording sheet.  This activity worked on numbers 1-20.

Pi Day ~ March 14th

In honor of Pi Day we all received mini pies to take home and enjoy.  The children were excited about the pies.  Hope they shared a little with you! 

PTL - Parent Teacher LINK group surprised the teachers with some treats this week!

Thank you for the delicious treats!  It was very sweet! 

Here are two more amazing readers!  Hadley and Alexis did some reading to fill in their Dr. Seuss Hat. They got their certificate and wore their special hat!  

Short vowels ~ This work board worked on identifying the short vowel in a CVC word.  Students had to tap out the word and find the vowel sound. 

Some pattern block creations! 

Here is Cohort B working on those math activities I explained above. They did a terrific job solving the equations and counting accurately.  

More pies!!  YUMMY!!

This work board worked on sorting real words and nonsense words.  Students had to read the CVC word and decide if it was real or nonsense.  

Another work board was sorting digraphs. Students had to sort words with sh, th, ch, wh in them.  Sometimes the digraph was found at the beginning of the word and sometimes it was at the end. 

A third work board was sorting beginning sounds /b/, /d/, /p/ & /q/. The tricky part was being sure you placed it under the correct lowercase letter.  This was also to work on the confusion of b, d, p, q because of how they all look similar.  

Look at these awesome sentences!!  Hannah told us this week she wants to be a kindergarten teacher!  That warms my heart!  I bet she will make a wonderful teacher someday.  I also imagine she may change her mind between now and then too!  ;)

Another terrific reader!  Anna filled her Dr. Seuss hat and received her certificate!  Way to go!! 

Pies, pies & more pies!  

We had a great week!  On Wednesday, extra desks were dropped off in our room.  We moved them tentatively so the kids could get an idea on how many desks there would be but we are far from being ready.  Some of the desks need to be resized for our little bodies & I have a lot of moving/organizing to do so we can get the space we need but hopefully still have the options to use the rugs.  I hope to keep some of the rugs so we can alternate who gets to sit on a rug on different days. It will be a busy couple weeks trying to reorganize student materials & the classroom.  We are excited to have all the students back and have begun some talks about the different feelings we might be experiencing. 

We hope you had a wonderful weekend!  Spring is finally here so we can look forward to warmer days!!