SPRING HAS OFFICIALLY SPRUNG!
Literacy Highlights
We are reading and writing up a storm in kindergarten! We
are taking turns sharing our work from the Author’s Chair and on the
SMART Board. It is truly the greatest gift as a teacher to see your
children stand in front of peers to celebrate their work. We continue to work on beginning letter blends (bl, gr, fl, str, br), digraphs, long and short vowel spellings,
punctuation, letter formation, reader’s/author’s voice, adding more
detail to our writing, and using non fiction text elements such as the
table of contents and glossary.
Math Highlights
We are working on measurement (weight, length, capacity, and time), constructing and deconstruction three dimensional shapes, and interval counting with number lines.
We continue to work on using a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction
problems. The focus of this work is on explaining our math
thinking to demonstrate understanding and to build a community of collaborative mathematicians. Play around
with addition and subtraction problems at home and ask your
child to teach you different strategies to solve problems. For example, if a your child is presented with a 10 dot frame, a 4 dot frame, and a 7 dot frame, how does he/she justify the sum 21. Does he/she touch count all 21 dots, organize 10 and four into 14 and then count on 7 more, notice groupings of 5’s and 10’s, work with known number combinations, and/or notice doubles facts.
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| Students busy painting and texturing paper for a future science lesson and activity. |
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| We read Not A Box by Antoinette Portis and were inspired to ask Mr. Ralph, our CCS custodian, to round up some boxes for us to create with during afternoon Explore Time. |
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| Life is good in kindergarten when you have markers, scissors and duct tape! |
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| We made rainbow sticks with Ms. Rowntree's class during Kindergarten Community Time |
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March Self Portraits
These photos are too sweet leave out of the blog post even though it's really April. |
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CVC Work
Say it, tap it, spell it, write it, read it! |
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| High Frequency Word Search |
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| Writing Words Around The Room |
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| Making Lists |
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We practiced responding to questions in writing.
The question that preceded this response was, "What will you do this afternoon?" |
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| Spring Poem |
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| Building, Reading and Writing Sentences |
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| Representing Addition Stories with Pictures and Equations |
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| Make 5 Addition Game |
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| Beat You to 20 Game |
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| Number Scrolls |
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| Solving Frog Addition Stories Using White Boards and Student Structured Math Talk |
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| Hunting For Numbers 1-20 Using Double Ten Frames and Dobbers |
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| Shape Attribute Lesson |
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| Share Exploration |
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Four Winds
We learned all about birds that live in Vermont. |
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We used binoculars and identification charts to help us identify birds (paper pictures) near the CCS
garden and compost shed. |
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK WITH YOUR KIND, CURIOUS
AND HARD WORKING CHILD!
