Announcements:
1. Star Wars week starts Monday! Here is the full schedule:
1. Star Wars week starts Monday! Here is the full schedule:
2. We will have Pajama Day in Kindergarten on Friday (12/18)!
3. Jolly Phonics homework will come home on Monday, but that will be the only one this week. We have SO many other fun math and literacy activities to do, we will get back to doing Jolly Phonics more regularly after break.
It was a great week!
On Monday, we had interactive and educational Physics is Fun centers.
They were so cool!
3. Jolly Phonics homework will come home on Monday, but that will be the only one this week. We have SO many other fun math and literacy activities to do, we will get back to doing Jolly Phonics more regularly after break.
It was a great week!
On Monday, we had interactive and educational Physics is Fun centers.
They were so cool!
We focused a lot on math this week and counting in tens. We have a chain of shapes we use to count how many days we have been in school, and it changes color every ten. Our chain is always breaking and falling, so I asked the students, "what else can we use to count to 64?" I then gave each group a cup of straws and posed the question, "How can you use the straws to make 64?" I gave them no other guidance and just let them work in groups to figure out a way to do it. They came up with counting by 1s, sorting by color, making patterns, and counting by 10s. We then came together as a class and counted them in groups of 10 with 4 left over. We are going to do many more math lessons like this in the coming weeks... it was so neat to see what they could come up with!
We also did something called a 3-act task. Essentially, this is an open-ended math lesson where the students are the ones who ask the questions, decide what they want to know, and collaborate to get to an answer. They require a much higher level of thinking and it was a great experience! We will be continuing to do these tasks in the future. This specific task focused on counting with 10s and was called Peas in a Pod. We started out by counting using the 10 cards the students made. We counted our own, counted how many were in our table groups, and in our whole class. We then played and sang this song MANY times this week:
I also brought snap peas for the students to taste, play with, and count to get them interested in the lesson. We then watched a video that showed the inside of two snap peas that were small and medium sized. The video then showed a small, medium, and large snap pea, but not opened up. The students have to figure out how many peas were in each pod. They used many manipulatives and worked together to figure it out!
Another math video we use a lot is this counting to 100 one. This would be something fun and easy to practice with your child at home!
Olaf also visited our classroom this week! He caught many students demonstrating safe, respectful, and responsible behavior. We had so much fun looking for his sneaky hiding places every morning. He will be back next week too :)
Friday Brian's parents were our Mystery Readers!
We also made it outside to enjoy the unseasonably warm weather on Thursday. I LOVE this class :)
I cannot believe this is our last week before Winter Break! It is going to be a good one.