Kindergarten Connection ~ May 11th

Kindergarten Connection

May 12th

Thank you so much for thinking of us this week! 
Your daily gifts were so thoughtful and certainly made us feel appreciated.
Working with your sweet children at CCS is the best job in the world!
Sincerely,
Sarah, Julianna, & Marcie

Literacy Highlights

We are working on building stamina during Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop sessions. We are taking turns sharing our work from the Author’s Chair and on the SMART Board. We are also working on initial and final consonant blends, 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 using a variety of strategies to solve three digit addition problems. The focus of this work is on explaining our math thinking to deepen our understanding. For example, if a child is presented with a 10 dot frame, a 4 dot frame and a 7 dot frame, how can he/she justify the sum 21. Does he/she touch count all dots, organize 10 and four into 14 and then count on 7 more, notice groupings of 5’s and 10’s, work with know number combinations, notice doubles facts…  Play around with addition and subtraction number and word problems and ask your child to teach you different strategies to solve the problems. We are also working on measurement (weight, length, capacity and time), constructing and deconstruction three dimensional shapes, and interval counting with number lines.

Science Highlights

We learned all about owls in our last Four Winds lesson. Take a look at the photos below of children dissecting owl pellets.

We celebrated Arbor Day and learned all about trees and their important roles in our environment. 

We will kick off our spring planting unit next week. Stay tuned for lots of information from our budding horticulture scientists. Until then, encourage your child to share what he/she knows about seeds, plants, life cycles and taking care of the environment. Invite your child to help you work in an established garden or start a window box garden together.  Five and six year old children love to get their hands dirty!

We can build and use number paths to help us solve math problems.

Lucy played us a song on her yellow ukulele.

We made still life pictures of pussy willows.

We can use build and record geo board shape plans.

We like to play Hungry Caterpillar.
This game helps us compose shapes out of different shapes.

We can use our number sense to solve number puzzles 1-100!

We can race shapes.
This game helps us draw shapes with straight sides, corners, or curves.

We love to make little books all about spring.

We love to paint with bright colors.

We organize sentences so that they make sense in writing. 

We always feel proud after working independently!

We love to write words!

We are builders!

We are learning how to write our last names.

Four Winds
We learned all about owls!

Guess Whooooooooooo?

We used a bone identification chart to help us learn about what was inside of the owl pellets that we dissected. 

Cross Out 50
This game gave us practice identifying numerals 1-50 and counting forward from any given number.

Arbor Day
We read several fiction and nonfiction books all about trees. We learned about the important role of trees in our environment. We were fascinated to learn about the different animals that use trees for shelter and food.

We were inspired to write all about trees.

We will build and build any chance we get in kindergarten!

We learned a daffodil poem and made pop art flowers.

We can match numerals with number words.

We are cvc word experts. We can tap cvc words to help us read and write. 

We can read and write more than 30 sight words!

We filled our classroom penny jar up!
We have been working hard to take care of ourselves, each other, and this place!
We will celebrate with Teddy Bear Picnic next week.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!