Guidance

Mrs. Gallagher has focused her lessons in guidance on being problem solvers using Kelso's Choices. Kelso gives the students a variety of ways to solve small problems. The children love Mrs. G's puppet & the short videos she shares!

Enjoying Outdoor Time

Thank you for sending the gear so we can enjoy the outdoors!

Science: Sink The Pine and Plywood

We read and enjoyed the big book: 

Cooperative small group work.

Working with pine & plywood.
Predictions and testing.

Charged to use the tools given to sink the wood.

Problem solving.

Pleased to be first to solve.
How many did paper clips did it take?

Learning Shapes

Kindergarten Math Goal: I can name 2D shapes

Working with shape templates. 

The children selected their favorite, I mounted them 
and they are on display outside our classroom.

Here are a few to enjoy up close!

With these cold temperatures we don't always get outside. One activity the children enjoy is Cosmic Kids Yoga. It is a wonderful activity in mindfulness and gets our bodies moving! Jamie, the instructor, tells wonderful stories while the children move and stretch. This one above is Star Wars and was well received! We also did a Moana one recently. I am trying to reach a variety of interests and get everyone moving! 

Our science learning this week included reading:

We also experimented with saw dust and wood shavings. The children explored both materials separately and then mixed them together. They then had to think about what happens when you put sawdust and shavings in water?

They made hypothesis, conducted the experiment, observed what happened and discussed their findings.

Happy New Year!

Ask your child to sing to you the song we learned 

for morning meeting: Now We Have a Brand New Year.

We read The Night Before New Year's by Natasha Wing 

and Squirrel's New Year's Resolution by Pat Miller.

Writing resolutions to start the new year.

Writing with kindergarten spelling
(invented spelling listening for the
dominant sounds in words).

My goal is to play football more often with my dad!

My goal is to get better at soccer!

I want to learn how to swim.
I like hanging out with my mom.

My goal is to exercise more often.

I hope to be nicer to my friends.
I hope to play with my friends.

My goal is to get more vanilla ice cream at Red's!

My goal is to get better at football.

My goal is to learn to swim better!

My goal is to go to the gym more!
My goal is to help people more times!

My goal is to hug my parents.
My goal is to hang out with my mom.

My goal is to run more.
I want to learn to how to make horses.
See my grand mom.

I want to get better at making paper snowflakes!

I hope to help people to like the Earth.

My goal is to ride my bike without training wheels
because my friend Molly has no training wheels!

I hope to be better at doing tricks on my bike
because I am not good.

We try to share our writing in the
classroom as often as we can.

We are learning to start sentences with capitals,
leave spaces between words, put in as many
letter sounds as we hear and use punctuation.

We also like to share our great writing outside the classroom!
Our hallway display. What confident writers they are now mid year!
I hope you also see the growth in your child's writing since the beginning of the year!

I hope you enjoyed reading your child's new years resolution as well as some of their peers!

Another New Year's choice activity you may see come home.