Kindergarten Connection ~ December 11th

We played addition bingo with our friends in Mrs. Rowntree's class.

We wrote almost all of the numerals on our December Calendars! The top of this month's calendar was inspired by the illustrations in the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolan

Math Workplace Station - Which Bug Will Win?
This station presses students to take turns, add, count on, and make predictions based on data collected.

Math Workplace Station - Beat you to Ten
This station provides students opportunities to count, add, compare, and talk about their math reasoning.

Math Workplace Station - Numbers on Number Racks
This math station encourages students to efficiently build numbers with  a set of five and some ones and take about their math thinking.

Math Workplace Station - This workplace provides students with opportunities to name shapes and compare shape attributes and construct puzzle shapes in more than one way.

We are leaning how to read word family words. We discovered that reading one word in a family can help us read other family words by changing the beginning sound. 

We continue to read and write high frequency words that pop up in our everyday reading and writing work. We know that learning to read these words quickly will help us focus on decoding tricky words and understanding text.

We can labeled a picture and built a telling sentences about winter wear.

We can build and add doubles using number racks, ten frames and our math hands.

We are learning how to form uppercase letters the kindergarten way! We are woking hard to start all of these letters at the top. Ask your child to teach you the different line names using the picture above. 

We can say words slowly to help us write. We are working hard at recording the sounds we hear in  our writing.

This was one of our December Poems.

SNOW - Our favorite word right now!

We can build and write addition sentences. We are working hard at correcting reversals to write numerals the kindergarten way.

Mittens or Gloves Floor Graph
We discovered that...
 More children wear mittens than gloves.
There is one more glove than mitten.
There are eight mittens and seven gloves.
The lines are the same up to the seventh row.
There are 15 mittens and gloves altogether.

Kindergarten Connection ~ November 21

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I am so thankful to be a teacher at CCS and work with your children everyday!

Flynn Theater Field Trip

We were a great audience at the performance of Kevin Henkes Lilly and the Plastic Purple Purse. Later that day we wrote about our favorite scene from the play and googled Kevin Henkes to watch him draw a sketch of his famous character Lily.

 Four Winds Earth Science

A guest scientist visited with a time machine to teach us how trees decompose over time. 

We look a close look at rotting logs and discovered evidence of life such as insects and chew marks.

Math Highlights

This is our updated Work Place Menu. Ask your child to explain the different stations to you. What is this station called? What is your work at this station? 

We had so much fun playing tally bingo! 

Children hunting for teen numbers and writing numerals up to 30  or 50.

Literacy Highlights

Guided Reading Group

We are learning strategies good readers use. We know that good readers sometimes use their pointer finger to track words (match) as they read print from left to right. Good readers look at the pictures. Good readers get their lips ready and look closely at the beginning letter/sound of new words. Good readers stretch words out and they put sounds together. Good readers look for chunks or parts of words they know to read tricky words. Good readers read punctuation and pay attention to bold print. Good readers ask, “Does it look right?” “Does it sound right?” Does it make sense?” Finally, good readers practice reading!

Buddy Reading with Informational Text

Read To Self Time 

Morning Message

This message helped us make sense of punctuation, notice compound words and/or little words hiding in big words, build complete sentences, and represent combinations for 5.

We read several versions of The Little Old Lady Who swallowed a Pie and discussed their language patterns and similarities and differences.

 Look at Mrs. Brady helping a student trace her old lady for a literacy project.

The final product. Wow, look at all the food The Little Old Lady ate!

Electronic Book Making

We learned how to use an app called Storykit. We made two class books about out  things we like and our favorite story topics. Click here to see one of our electronic books. 

Writer's Workshop
We are learning how to write true stories.  

Look at these hard working authors and illustrators.

Fifth Grade Visitors

Fifth grade students read their turkey tales to us in small groups. Their stories were incredible and made us look forward to writing at CCS!

We learned three Thanksgiving/turkey songs/skits. Oh what fun we had pretending to run away from the cook that wanted to cook us for Thanksgiving.