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August 28th-September 5th
Dear Parents,
Below is what we have been working on since Kindergarten started:
Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had various greetings as we were getting to know each other's names: They were a thumbs up greeting, a high five greeting, a fist bump greeting, and a bow-wow greeting. Our activities to get us thinking or moving were: The monkey dance, the milkshake song, Listen and Move and our Friday Song.
Writing: We learned that drawing a picture tells a story. We wrote about something that makes us happy. We also started our Being a Writer Program. This is our formal writing program. The format of the program is to listen to stories, discuss the story, make a connection to the story, write about the story and finally share our writing. This week's story was Hands Can. Everyone discussed some things the kids could do in the story. Then everyone told something they can do with their hands. Then they drew a picture of that.
Independent Work-The children learned that independent work means work you can do on your own. I modeled 3 ways to read a book (look at the pictures to tell the story, retell a familiar story in your own words like Goldilocks and the 3 bears, and finally read the words on the page). Then everyone practiced reading quietly for five minutes. We will gradually work on reading stamina and extend the amount of time we read.
Math- This week we got our first math books. We worked on positional words. We dscribed where objects were using the words next to/beside, over/above and under/beneath. We played a game called bear in a cave. Everyone had a turn to be a bear and they had to move to the positional word: under the cave( table), next to the cave, beside the cave, etc... Then they located those positions in their math book. We played freeze dance and then had to describe where we were standing when the music stopped. We also learned how to discuss and share our thoughts with a math partner.
Science/Social Studies
We heard stories about school. We made Kindergarten crowns. We read a Weekly Reader about going to school.
We learned about colors. We sang some color songs. We made a Rainbow book and what makes a rainbow. We watched a video about what a scientist is (They observe, question and wonder, record and share what they learn) . We drew ourselves as scientists which will go in their Science journals. These will go home at the end of the year. We also did an experiment called walking water. We put out 5 cups. We filled the 1st, 3rd and 5th cups halfway with water. We put red, yellow and blue food coloring in the cups. Then we put papertowel arches going from one cup to another until all five cups had paper towels going in and out of the cups. Then we predicted what would happen. The children recorded by drawing what they saw. Then the next day when they came in, they noticed that the water traveled from each cup into the empty cups. They also noticed that the colors mixed to make orange and green. Then they recorded what the cups looked like again.
It was a great week in Kindergarten!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fishelman & Mrs. Keirstead
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