Our kindergarten classes have been exploring how heat can affect matter. We brainstormed ways to save the bears from the ice cubes. We had a lot of ideas and we tried as many of them as we could!Designing and building is engaging!We treasure our reading time and love having our very own book bins.We read and reread our poetry folders too. We like to find rhyming words in our poems.Kindergarten students can read the pictures, the words and also tell a story by looking at a book.We read The Gingerbread Man and then retold it and put it in the correct order. We enjoyed drawing our favorite characters too.Did you hear about "Zero the Hero" leaving us surprises on the 30th day of kindergarten? We were so excited!On Friday we tasted fresh apples, looked at the core, felt the skin, and watched Mrs. Carneiro peel some apples. Then we put them in a giant crock pot to add some heat. The apples cooked all day. After recess, we mashed them up and had a wonderful and tasty surprise...applesauce!Thank you for attending fall conferences. I enjoyed them so much and look forward to a great year together.The picture above is our classroom "constitution" that we created the day after Constitution day. We talked about rules that we want to live by in our classroom and our school. Maya shared her poster because she was the Star Student this week. In writing, we are brainstorming about fall and writing some stories about this lovely season.Miss Carolina came to teach us Spanish on Tuesday. We also are learning about characters and settings within a story.We have been sorting by shape, color, size, texture and many other ways for math and science.Math stations have covered numbers to ten and we have also started geometry. The shape hunt for triangles was especially fun. We took pictures of triangles around the class in teams and shared out under the document camera.Science stations were very interesting this week. We had a smelling station, touching station where we discovered rough and smooth items inside of socks, a color sorting/graphing station and a size comparison station. Next week we'll finish up with mass.Don't forget to come to conferences this week from Tuesday to Friday before and after school. I sent a reminder note in your child's daily folder on Friday so you would remember the time. We are proud of our work and want to share our progress with you.Building sentences with three words!We are very good at retelling the story of "Brown Bear Brown Bear" to our friends.Describing the popcorn during our science lesson was fun! We enjoyed tasting some too.Our school counselor did a lesson on listening with our whole body this week.Lost in a good book...Sorting and counting during our math lesson...Writing numbers during math on paper and on the i-pads.Math stations keep us learning.Building math towers with our friends.Starting our day with math stations. Here we are working with numbers 1-10.This week we explored letters, compared uppercase and lowercase and even played name lotto with our classmates' names.Here we are doing some math with numbers up to 10 on our "pretend" bus.We like to play games with our friends to learn more about words.Some of our math is on paper and some is through hands on activities.See you at open house on Tuesday, September 11th @ 6:00. This will be the time to sign up for fall conferences which are coming up soon.I overheard some of my students describing the day we made gluten free play dough as "the best of my life"! We read the directions, measured and stirred and best of all, we made enough for the entire class to use.Here we are playing one of our favorite games for number concepts 1-5. We also pretended to be frogs and jumped on a giant number line. Then we thought about what came before and after the number that we landed on.Painting, building and reading, oh my! No wonder we are tired at the end of our days...Building our name puzzles was challenging but fun!Scientists use a lot of tools so we experimented with some of them. Here we are observing shells and rocks close up!We even made a list of all of our scientific questions!Here are our birthday month friends!Our name chart helped us to compare how many letters we have in our names and which names are long or short. |
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May 2019
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