January 27, 2011

The Mitten

-Our play, The Mitten will be taking place Friday, February 4th at 2:30 in the Library.

-Please have your child where his/her costume to school on Friday.

-I will set up 2 chairs for each family.  Please let me know if you need additional chairs.

-On Thursday at 3:40, I will be setting up the library for the play.  I would love some help.

-If you would like to donate any of these items for our play, please let me know.
        *Cheese (Gordons has bags of cheese already cut into cubes)
        *Crackers
        *Juice boxes
        *Small plates
        *Napkins

A Wild Week of Learning in Kindergarten

-Heart word of the week: do

-We read an ABC book this week about baby animals.  With this book, we worked on recognizing the story structure.  We discovered that it was an ABC book.  We also practiced classifying and categorizing.  We learned that this means to put things into groups.

-In math, we were introduced to two new math centers.  Both involve pennies and nickles.  Beat you to 20 cents gives us practice recognizing the coins and their values.  We can also practice comparing quantities with this center.  Our other center is called Race you to 15 cents.  With this center we are practicing exchanging five pennies for a nickle.

-In science, we learned about animals.  We talked about where they live, what they do, and their body coverings.

-We kept many of the same centers this week as last week.  We continued building hibernation homes and building with our ice bergs.  One of our new centers was acting out our play, The Mitten.  Our science center was also new this week.  We had the opportunity to experiment with ice.  We also had a "blubber glove" so they could see what it was like to have blubber and touch ice.