Adventures in Kindergarten

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 No comments

Last week was our best week yet. I was so impressed with how well everyone followed directions and listened to our group lessons. This weekend your child brought home their reading bag. Hopefully you found them in there and had a chance to read them together! They are really getting to be great readers!

Columbia Manor

Our Penny drive is in full swing. We are collecting money to help purchase games, puzzles and snacks for the residents at Columbia Manor. We will collect pennies from now until May 1st. Feel free to send in any donations (checks, cash, change besides pennies) in addition to your pennies. The children will be participating in counting and totaling our donation. We would like to have lots of pennies so all kindergarteners can help participate in counting our donation! Thank you for your help with our Penny Drive!

This week's objectives:
Fundations: Segmenting and blending words, digraphs: wh,ch, sh, th, ck

Reading: Strategies for solving unknown words.

Writing: Opinion vs. fact, sharing our opinions in writing, supporting it with a reason

Science: Animal homes & habitats, animal feet

We got new toys for choice time and they made some really cool things!

Connecting reading and writing. And yes we write on the tables!

Math groups working on combinations of 10.

We saw some of you at the pet show! Sunny had her debut!

We had a guest reader on Friday.

More new toys

We made our new bulletin board for spring. We made a list of all things we see in spring then we made them with paper collage.

I am so amazed with how beautiful it turned out!!! These little people are serious artists.

Things to Remember:

Wednesday April 10 - Full day of school
Wednesday April 17 - Planetarium field trip, no volunteers needed

A Rainbow of Fun!

Friday, March 22, 2019 No comments

We had a fantastic week and a fantastic day today! Our field trip was great. We learned all about the first floor of the public library. Then we heard a story in the friends room. Thank you to all that sent food in for us to try for our Rainbow day. I was super impressed with the kids ability to try new foods. I even heard several kids find a new food that they thought they didn't like before. We played a rainbow game, we made rainbow chains, we ate the rainbow and we enjoyed a Sid the Science Kid about rainbows too. It was a great way to kick off spring break.

Learning Objectives for the week:

Science: Finding animals in the woods, where animals live

Reading: Segmenting and Blending words, In reading group we worked on strategies: check the picture, tap it out, cover it up and think what makes sense. Some groups even learned about the bossy e!
Writing: We took our writing assessment this week. I am so pleased with their wonderful work. It is truly amazing how much they have grown as learners since the beginning of the year.

Math: Subtraction

Our week in pictures:

Matching Girls!

We took a walk on the first day of spring to look for animals.

This game is called disappearing train. It's a game to help us practice subtraction.

On Wednesday we had maker space. Mrs. Fitch taught us about Ozobots. We were robot coders!

Here we go! We're excited about the library!

Happy to go back too.

We read a book called, "The Name Jar". In this book a little girl from Korea was trying to choose her american name. She decided that her Korean name was the one she wanted to keep. This friend showed us how to write her name in Korean! So beautiful!