Week 3

We had a very successful week in kindergarten! Your children are learning how to be attentive listeners, active learners, and collaborative workers. Our focus this week was on taking care of each other by allowing ample private reasoning time during whole group learning opportunities.  Specifically, we worked on not calling out when teachers or friends are sharing their thinking/work. We noticed that by allowing private reasoning time, more friends are involved in the work, and our classroom feels friendly and fair. 

You Skills

Mrs. Nelson taught us about Whole Body Listening so that we can be
attentive listeners at school



Math 

We are busy counting collections, naming and ordering numbers, and extending patterns. We are using five and ten frames and our math hands to support our understanding of numbers 1-10.  The children are also learning how to 'talk math' and support their ideas with evidence.  

Extending and recording AB, ABC, AAB, ABCD, and AABB patterns

Counting by 10's with pennies

Working with five frames to build our understanding of numbers 

Four Winds Science With Parent Volunteers

Puppet show about the ecosystem with a focus on leaves-eaters

Looking closely at leaves to see how different insects eat leaves 

Our first trip to the CCS outdoor classroom!

Looking for evidence of leaf-eaters

Munching on lettuce from our CCS garden

Writer's Workshop

The children are so excited about the opportunity to write and illustrate in Writer’s Workshop. 
The big ideas in Writer’s Workshop thus far are:

• Writers can use pictures and words to tell stories, share ideas, and to teach others
  
• Writers can reread and add to their work
  
• Writers can problem solve
  
• Writers can share their work
  
• Writers never waste precious writing time 

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

Explore Time