November 19th, 2010

Conferences

I absolutely loved meeting with you all this week!  It's was so nice to be able to touch base and share with each other!  If there is something you forgot to ask or if you have come up with something since conferences, feel free to call, email, or send a note!

Wild Learning in Kindergarten

*Heart word of the week: have

*The reading strategies we focused on this week were recognizing story structure and making/confirming predictions.  We practiced these with a book called, The Bus For Us.  We practiced making and confirming questions while we were reading.  We also concluded that the structure of this story was a pattern.

*During our writing time, we practiced writing onomatopoeias (sound words) in our writing.


*In math, we practiced patterns while putting together a pattern quilt.  We also practiced recognizing numerals and quantities with a matching game.  We received a new math center this week called, Count and compare butterflies.  This center practices counting and comparing quantities.

*We continued learning about Thanksgiving this week.  We reviewed again the first Thanksgiving.  We acted it out and have now added pilgrims to our dramatic play area so we can act out the first Thanksgiving during our center time.

*We had a special Thanksgiving lunch on Wednesday.  We made place mats and native American headbands.  Our class was the native Americans and Mrs. Oney's class was the pilgrims.  We pretended like the pilgrims just came over on the Mayflower.  We had to teach them how to fish and plant crops.  We then celebrated and ate the thanksgiving feast together.