Veterans Day Parade

 

Our Veterans Day Parade may have been wet but it was a lot of fun! There were so many Veterans who joined the parade and we are so THANKFUL for their sacrifice to our country. 

November 1-4

 

This week in Kindergarten! 

Our poem this week was I'm a Little Scarecrow. We made movements to our poem, glued it into our poetry notebook, completed a poetry page, and recorded the poem for seesaw. 

Our read aloud this week was Scaredy Squirrel. We practiced talking about characters and setting, studying our main character, making inferences, telling our favorite part, and answering comprehension questions. 

In writing, we finished our Pumpkin Patch book and moved on to making our Halloween Party book. After we completed our Halloween Party book, they will be writing their own personal narratives. 

In math, we finished up unit 2 and moved to unit 3. In this unit your child will count by 2's to 20, explore even numbers as doubles, add 1 and subtract 1 to numbers from 1 to 10, compare and order numbers from 1 to 10, and write equations to show sums up to 5. 

On Tuesday, we went outside to our Thorson Nature Center and we spread some mulch. The Kindergartners are very good mulch spreaders. 

Halloween

 

Halloween was such a fun day! 

We started the day learning all about bats. We read a bat book, looked up some bat facts, and wrote down what bats could do, what they have, and what they are. We learned that bats do not drink human blood but blood from animals instead. 

Then we made a mummy craft. 

In the afternoon, we took Halloween pictures, played BINGO, played "Pin the Eye on the Monster" and "Pin the Bowtie on Mr. Bones", we had a Halloween snack, and we had our Halloween Monster Mash. 

Our Halloween parade was so much fun too! 

October 25-29

 

This week in Kindergarten! 

Our poem this week was 5 Little Bats. We made movements to our poem, glued our poem into our poetry notebook, completed a poetry page, and recorded our poem for seesaw. 

Our read aloud this week was Where's My Mummy. We practiced making connections, talking about problem and solution, talking about the setting and the characters, and retelling the main events. 

For writing, we moved into our official writing curriculum. The students are starting to write personal narratives. We started with a whole class book on pumpkin day. 

In math, they are currently working on Unit 2 Numbers to Ten. In this unit, your child will quickly recognize how many objects are in a collection (up to 5) without counting, compare sets using the words more or less, develop number sense with combinations that make 5, and then 10, count objects and math the quantity to the written numeral, and build with two-dimension shapes. 

In science, we finished up our stars and moon unit. They really enjoyed learning all about stars and our moon. They especially like learning about constellations.

October 18-22

 

This week in Kindergarten! 

Monday was pumpkin day! To learn all about pumpkin day, find my pumpkin day blog post. 

Our poem this week was Pumpkin Patch. We made movements, glued the poem into our poetry notebook, completed a poetry page, and we recorded the poem for seesaw. 

Our read aloud this week was Pumpkin Jack. We worked on predicting, retelling, making connections, making inferences, learning about the pumpkin life cycle, and answering comprehension questions. 

In writing, we wrapped up our pattern book writing unit. The students worked so hard on stretching out their words, writing a letter for each sound they wrote, and drawing a wow picture to match. All pattern writing books came home this week so take a look at them and all the hard work your writer did! Next week, we will start our official writing curriculum; Lucy Calkins Writing. 

In math, they are currently working on Unit 2 Numbers to Ten. In this unit, your child will quickly recognize how many objects are in a collection (up to 5) without counting, compare sets using the words more or less, develop number sense with combinations that make 5, and then 10, count objects and math the quantity to the written numeral, and build with two-dimension shapes. 

In science, we are still learning about day and night, the sun, and the moon. We learned about the many difference phases our moon has, the stars, and the sun. 

In guidance, we learned about self-talk and staying on task. We reviewed our listening rules, reviewed our listening song, and we learned what self-talk was and how to do it. Self-talk is a developmentally appropriate strategy that students can use to help themselves listen, follow directions, and stay on task. Over time, self-talk typically becomes internalized and is no longer spoken out loud. However, whether our loud or silent, self-talk can be a powerful tool to help students remember directions and focus and guide their efforts.