Stallion Stampede is Saturday October 17th! Milla from our class will be performing her gymnastics routine with FlipzUSA at 11:30 in the gym! I will be working the bounce house from 11-12:15. Kindergarten teachers are offering icecream and a trip to the fire station for our teacher raffle. Hope to see you there!!
Happy birthday to Frankie!! We had so much fun celebrating with him.
Reading
We got new literacy stations this week:
Reading
We got a new station this week. At the reading station the kids first read from their bookbins- we have an alphabet chart, poetry notebook, and little readers we have done in class. After they finish reading from their book bins they may choose a book from our library to read.
Computer
We another new station this week. At computer station the kids practiced their computer skills while playing on starfall.com.
Word Work
At word work this week the kiddos could work on rainbow names, where they trace their name or friends name multiple times in different colors of crayon to make a rainbow. They could also use wiki sticks to make their name or friends name.
Writing
The kids got to label a fire safety picture. I encouraged them to try to hear the first sound in the word and write that sound.
Storytelling
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? was the book we retold this week. The kids would go through the book and retell the story using pictures or they would just read the book. It is repetitive, so it is very easy to reread.
Star
The kiddos sequenced pictures of an apple being eaten. It is sometimes confusing for them to put in order, whole apple, one bite gone, two bites, then the apple core.
Math
The kids used pattern blocks to fill in pattern block puzzles.
Listening
At the listening station the kids practiced book handling skills and got to listen to fluent readers.
Poetry
Our fluency poem for this week is Five Little Firemen.
Smartboard
At smartboard the kiddos could play 2 games, alphabetical flowers or acorn counting. Alphabetical flowers is where the kiddos had to put flowers back on the stems in alphabetic order. We used the word wall or our alphabet line to help figure out the next letter. Acorn counting is where the kids count the number of acorns a squirrel has and writes that number.
Writing
In writing this week we continued to think of a topic, plan our story, sketch our story, and label. We talked a lot about how planning our story helps us when we go to sketch our story, because we know what we need to draw. We also talked about adding details to our story and how this will make it better for the reader.
Math
We have been learning about numbers to 5. We are identifying numbers, counting sets, putting the numbers in order, and forming the numbers. We made flashcards of numbers 1-5. We wrote the number and made the set with stickers. We made an apple core with 1-5 seeds and wrote the number on the leaf. We made a bear parade and had to put the bears in order from 1-5. We also made sets. "Show me __." and we practiced counting out that many counters.
Health
We have been learning all about fire safety. We learned that if their is smoke to get low and crawl out. We learned to stop, drop, and roll if our clothes catch on fire. We also learned about needing 2 ways out of our house. We talked about feeling the door with our hand to see if it is hot and about a family meeting place. We also talked about emergencies and 911.
