We met our 7th grade buddies yesterday and had a great time making ghosts with them. We will meet with them throughout the year to read books, play games and make crafts. Here are some photos of them together. We can't wait until the next time we meet!
We have a lot going on this week in Kindergarten. On Friday, we will be going to the Living Rosary in church. We will also be going to the Scholastic book fair during our normal library time at 9:45. If you would like to have a child purchase a book, please send in money in an envelope with your child's name. $5 is enough to purchase a book.
In Language Arts we will be sequencing stories and discussing the difference between fiction and non-fiction stories. We have also started blending the letter sounds we have learned to read simple CVC words. In Math, we will be showing ways to make 10, comparing sets up to 10, and couting backward and forward to 10. In Religion, we will be discussing ways to care for God's world. In our thematic unit we will be talking about pumpkins and completing a science experiment in the Science Lab: Does a pumpkin sink or float.
Today we met our 7th grade buddies and had a great time. I will post pictures of them later this week.
What are math stations?
Math Stations are a "fun" way to learn math concepts. We usually do them at the end of a math lesson to use concrete, manipulative objects to help us learn math concepts. We are doing math stations to help us learn sorting, patterning, numeration and more. As we are introduced to new math concepts, we will have new math stations to do! Math stations are fun and improve not only our math skills, but also work on cooperative learning, verbal, problem solving, fine motor and memory skills. Here are some photos of us participating in math stations. We love math stations!
In Language Arts this week we will continue to progress with Read to Self and Writer's Workshop. We will also learn how to correctly form the letters Pp and Cc and learn their sounds. We teach the hard sound of Cc in kindergarten. We will also learn how to read and spell the popcorn words like and I. We will finish our Apple Unit this week as well. In math, we will continue with numbers focusing on 8 and 9. In Religion we will be discussing what respect looks like and sounds like. In science we will learn about the parts of the tree and what their function is. As always it is another busy week in kindergarten.
We had a great time at Applesfest. We learned a lot about apples and how the settlers used them. We learned how they use to make apple cider, applesause, and more.
Here are some great photos from today.
It's Johnny Appleseed's birthday today. We read an autobiography and then pretended to be him. It's always fun to pretend to be someone famous. We also thought it was funny to wear a pot on our heads. We will get to meet him and learn more about him on Friday at Applefest
