This week in Kinder...
In literacy this week we learned /z/ in Jolly Phonics and Handwriting, did a lot of centers, and talked about traditions.
Our literacy centers included guided reading, building sight words with Legos, journal writing, writing and reading CVC words, and puzzles and iPads.
In literacy this week we learned /z/ in Jolly Phonics and Handwriting, did a lot of centers, and talked about traditions.
Our literacy centers included guided reading, building sight words with Legos, journal writing, writing and reading CVC words, and puzzles and iPads.
We did a 2-day lesson about making connections to what we read and sharing our ideas. We read a book about birthday traditions in other cultures, shared verbally and through writing and drawing our own birthday traditions, and then shared those while connecting it to the story. On day 2, we shared our birthday tradition in any way we wanted! Some students used recycled materials, some built with Legos, and others used art supplies. We then recorded our ideas on the iPads. This might explain why you had birthday cakes and presents arriving home on Friday :)
In math this week we continued talking about numbers in the teens and played a double ten frame game. We worked with a partner by rolling a 20-sided dice, and then placing the cubes on the double 10 frame. The partner with the bigger number (or more of their 20 frame filled) was the winner.
Tuesday was Groundhog's Day! We read a silly book about Punxsutawney Phil, and then with our buddies did a variety of activities to celebrate. We wrote our predictions on if he would see his shadow, worked on sight words, and making sentences. We were all so happy to hear Phil decided Spring was coming!
In ALO the students worked on their visual thinking by turning a variety of shapes into something different.
Friday, Sammy's mom was our Mystery Reader.
Last but definitely not least, our Global Day of Play Wednesday was AWESOME! We enjoyed a full hour of free play, inside and outside, with Ms. Gistenson's class. It was so fun to watch them play and be creative and silly :)