What a week in 124! We packed a lot into this week.
First... announcements:
- Halloween at school will be this Friday, October 30. See email for all the details on our AM class party and parade. I will also be sending a note home on Monday.
- There is no Jolly Phonics video this week. We were SO busy on Friday with Mystery Reader and working on our sounds we ran out of time. We will double up on videos next week!
- Ms. Barrett, our speech teacher, has started doing mini speech lessons with our whole class on Fridays! We love having her and learning about different sounds. She is also continuing to assess all the kindergartners on their speech.
So, let's first take it back to last Friday. Zach's mom came and read to us as our Mystery Reader, and we loved the silly story she brought!
First... announcements:
- Halloween at school will be this Friday, October 30. See email for all the details on our AM class party and parade. I will also be sending a note home on Monday.
- There is no Jolly Phonics video this week. We were SO busy on Friday with Mystery Reader and working on our sounds we ran out of time. We will double up on videos next week!
- Ms. Barrett, our speech teacher, has started doing mini speech lessons with our whole class on Fridays! We love having her and learning about different sounds. She is also continuing to assess all the kindergartners on their speech.
So, let's first take it back to last Friday. Zach's mom came and read to us as our Mystery Reader, and we loved the silly story she brought!
This week in literacy, we learned /c/, /k/, /e/, and /h/ in Jolly Phonics and Handwriting, and we also started talking about Identity. Identity is the first step in our kindergarten thematic concept of community. We talked about how identity is all about YOU and what makes up you. This week, we focused on our 5 senses and our emotions.
We read the book My Five Senses by Aliki and practiced identifying what we use our senses for. We also started our identity books we are making, and made all about the things we like to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.
We read the book My Five Senses by Aliki and practiced identifying what we use our senses for. We also started our identity books we are making, and made all about the things we like to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.
We also played sound Bingo to practice our listening skills and to discuss how we use our sense of hearing.
*Also, notice our BRAND NEW tables in our pictures! We are so excited about them!
*Also, notice our BRAND NEW tables in our pictures! We are so excited about them!
Wednesday in literacy we talked about our feelings and how they relate to our identity. We read the book Yesterday I Had the Blues and talked about how we can represent our feelings in colors. The students picked a color and drew the feeling that correlated with it. Can you guess how they are feeling? :)
We have also been talking a lot about retelling a story, specifically identifying the characters and the setting. To assess the students understanding of this, on Thursday we read the book Pirates Love Underpants. I then asked the students to retell the story to me and build me the characters and setting in any way they wanted. We used blocks, unifix cubes, paper and markers, popsicle sticks, and toilet paper tubes (thanks for sending those in). What they came up with was AMAZING and they did such a great job identifying the parts of the story. I also took videos of them explaining their thinking, I can't wait to show them to you at conferences.
I heard more than one student say this was the "best day ever!" " :)
I heard more than one student say this was the "best day ever!" " :)
In math this week, we made a witches' brew potion! To start with, we pulled out our ingredients out of the "cauldron" and made guesses as to how many of each were in the jars.
Then, we dumped out all the ingredients and counted to tell how many were in each jar. We compared the ingredients sf talked about which had more and which had less. We then practiced writing our numbers and drawing the correct amount for each ingredient (more counting practice). It was such a fun activity and the students really got into it!
This week we also worked with our 3rd grade buddies. We did an activity called "How many pumpkins tall are you?" The buddies measured themselves, and then we graphed all our results. We talked about comparing the different lengths, which number had the most people and which had the least. We love working with our buddies!
Last but not least, Friday Ava's mom came and read as our Mystery Reader. It was a very funny story!
It was definitely a fun week!