The "Tree of Joyful Words" is up in the lobby and our class' words are included!
Read aloud fun!
Scholastic News
CRACK THE CODE
Letters and symbols
The children like doing these!
Recess
Have you heard ...
There are two soccer nets now on Little Adventure Land and two soccer nets of Big Adventureland!
The children are very thankful for the donation!
There have been lots of cooperative tunneling in the snow piles.
phonics
reading group
short vowel work
Quiet Time option: Snowman Dot-To-Dot
Monday's spirit day was School Spirit Day (Cape swag or another).
This one was 1-20.
A nonfiction read aloud.
We are reading several pages a day.
There is so much to learn about owls!
vocabulary focus
Centers
Math
Challenge search.
Completed image: owl!
This challenge had number 1-88!
Centers
Discovery Board
Beautiful snowflakes!
Morning Meeting
Share: Would you rather ...
Math
Counting by tens
Kindergarten Goals:
I can skip count by tens.
I can write numbers (0-30).
The children have been working hard to correctly form numbers.
Tuesday's School Spirit Day: It's Sweater Weather!
Reading group work.
Concepts of print.
Stations
iPad work
Reading Group work: Read, Color, Write (CVC words)
Stations
Practicing red word (or).
Quiet Time Option: Color By Number (10-15) with color words.
Centers
Art Easel
Cray Pas (oil pastels) owls
Centers
Discovery Board
owls
Centers
Cray Pas (oil pastels)
Adding owls to their woodland scenes.
Wednesday we were very fortunate to have Ms. Fitz visit from Audubon!
In this case she had a Great Horned Owl!
Sharing a snowy white owl wing.
The children learned from very interesting facts about flight.
They learned about the owls talons.
She is holding an artificial replica of an owls foot with real talons however.
They enjoyed this hands on experience!
We sang this song together!
A Northern Saw-Whet.
Learning interesting facts about an owl's vision.
Playing a listening game.
Learning 4 or 5 different owl calls and pointing to which owl they were hearing.
Do you like this owl's sound?
Learning some very interesting facts about the Snowy White Owl.
THANK YOU PCPA for funding this wonderful opportunity for the children
to help supplement our
K for ME Animals and Habitat Unit!
Stations
Roll and Write
Practicing the six most recent red words studied.
Stations
iPad work: letter formation practice
Stations
Reading with Mrs. Cornell an emergent reader.
Reading the table of contents.
Reading a more challenging National Geographic nonfiction book about owls.
The books the children read with me are kept in their book box at school for rereading.
Working in an emergent reader called Barn Owls.
Handwriting
Another diver down letter
lowercase b
Centers
Art Table
Adding an owl to their woodland scene.
The completed scenes are hung in teh kindergarten hallway for others to enjoy!
Creative partner work!
Centers
Blocks
There is also going on in these habitats!
Centers
Writing and Drawing
owls
Thursday's Spirit Day: Sparkle and Shine!
Watching what the sunlight does to their sparkle & shine!
Math
Symmetry
Owls
They enjoyed this challenge!
A finished owl.
Phonics
The children are becoming more comfortable tapping out short vowel words and blending.
Reading Group
Stations
Letter stamping
Letter Match
Beginning sound stamping
Stations
Red word practice with scented markers.
Writing
Reports
Some children are working together to produce a report about frogs.
Some children are working together to produce a report about salmon.
Centers
owl
Centers
Art Easel
Cray Pas owl!
Dramatization
The woodlands
Recess fun!
Read Aloud
Making stick puppets for retelling.
color
cut
attach popsicle sticks
Checking to see if she has all her pieces.
Reading/retelling Jim Aylesworth's The Gingerbread Man.
We will be doing more with this next week our literacy block!
Friday'a School Spirit Day was Mad About Plaid!
Coming Up:
Monday, December 15th: Dress like you are going on vacation - Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses, comfortable travel clothes.
Tuesday, December 16th:
Library - If ready to exchange, please return the book in the library bag.
Wednesday, December 17th: Feeling Frosty! Wear anything with a snowflake or snow person theme.
Thursday, December 18th: Favorite Hat or Headband Day - Wear your favorite hat or headband to school for all to see!
Library - If ready to exchange, please return the book in the library bag.
Friday, December 19th: Night Before Break Day - Wear your most comfy/cozy clothes as we enjoy our last day at school before break.
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