January 21, 2011

Needed

-Milk jugs
-3 oz paper cups 

Wild Learning in the Kindergarten Jungle

-Heart word of the week: this

-The reading strategies we practiced this week were making predictions and recognizing the story structure.  In the book we read, we realized the story structure was like a pattern.  Almost the same thing happened on each page of the story.

-In math, we practiced counting strategies for amount 10-20.  We also practiced recognizing numerals and matching them to the quantity.

-During our science time, we started learning about animals in the winter.  We learned that animals hibernate, stay active, or fly south for the winter.

-Our community centers consistence of many of the things animals do in the winter.  We built hibernation homes for animals.  We pretended like we had to stay active and dig in "snow" to find food.  We also had a center where we had a map and created routes for the birds who were flying south.  We then used cubes to measure how many cubes long the journey was.