March 4th, 2011

Needed

-3 oz dixie cups

Wild Learning in Kindergarten

-Heart word of the week: here

-Our reading strategies for the week included visualizing pictures in our head while we read.  We also worked on main idea/details.

-In math, we finished up our sea creature story problems.  We also put a new twist on a couple of our old math centers.  For our sea creature matching center, we changed it so it is a memory match game.  For a center called, Beat you to 20 cents, we changed it to Beat you to Zero where we work on taking away pennies instead of adding pennies. 

-We had a wonderful week full of Dr. Suess books and activities!

-We wrote a variety of Suess inspired stories during writing time this week.  We read, Mr. Brown Can Moo!  Can You? and practiced writing a story with onomatopoeias (sound words).  On Wacky Wednesday, we read the book and drew a wacky picture.  We also read There's a Wocket in my Pocket.  With this book, we made up our own creature that rhymed with something in our house.  With the book, Green Eggs and Ham, we wrote a food that we do not like and where we would not eat it.

-During our theme time, we continued with Dr. Suess activities.  We read The Foot Book and  afterward, we practiced sorting our shoes in as many ways as possible.  Inspired from the book, Horton Hatches An Egg, we drew a new animal that was a mix between two animals just like in the story.  We also made green eggs and ham! 

-During our community centers, we practiced retelling The Cat in the Hat in our dramatic play area.  We also made cat heads and cat in the hat hats.