November 5, 2010

Mrs. Matulis' Ironman

*On Saturday, I will be competing in Ironman Florida.  If you are interested, I will be posting on the blog how to track me throughout the day!

Wild Learning in Kindergarten

*Heart word for the week: go

*Our focus book for the week was called, Friends Around the World.  We practiced asking questions while we read the book.  We were also introduced to comparing and contrasting.

*We wrote stories this week using our heart word like.  We also continued to work on stretching out words and leaving spaces in between our words. 

*During math, we were introduced to two new math centers.  One is called, Beat you to 10.  With this center, we practice recognizing numerals, counting, and comparing quantities.  Our other new center is called, Pattern Block designs.  We now have designs that we have to recreate with pattern blocks.

*Our theme for the week was Fall and leaves.  We did many activities to learn about some of the different signs of fall.

*We want on a nature walk around the school.  We talked about some of the signs of fall we were noticing.  We also collected leaves to explore at our science center.