November 12, 2010

Needed

-Aluminum foil

We will be putting the foil in our science center.  We will be making boats to sail across the "ocean" carrying "pilgrims".


Wild Learning in Kindergarten

-Heart word of the week: to

-With writing this week, we focused on using our heart word go.  We also worked on writing stories with spaces in between our words.

-Our focus book for the week was called, Peter and Molly, Plus Hester.  The reading strategies we practiced with this book were asking questions and identifying characters.

-In math, we learned a new center called, Hungry Caterpillar.  With this center, we spin a spinner and add shapes to a game board.  We are practicing recognizing shapes and discovering what shapes can go together to form another shape.  

-We are doing some social studies this week with our Thanksgiving theme.  We are learning some of the various symbols of Thanksgiving.  We are also gaining some background knowledge about the first Thanksgiving.  In addition, through play we are learning some of what Native Americans did many years ago.

-We had many new community centers this week.  Our science center now has water inside of a table.  Within the table, we are exploring various water materials.  Our construction zone had colored building blocks.  We built many things from rocket ships to a massive skate board park.  At our math center, we practiced ordering numerals by matching the numerals on a Native American picture to a number strip.

-We started Freaky Friday this week!  On Freaky Friday, each kindergarten class will rotate through all three kindergarten classrooms.  In my classroom, the students will practice Spanish.  In Mrs. Ashley's class, they will do technology with her Smart board.  In Mrs. Emery's class, she will be doing Brain Gym.  Brain gym is various activities that strengthen your brain.