Guest Reader

Ms. Lemieux was a guest reader in our classroom on Friday. She read I Have To Go! by Robert Munsch. This was one of the books we saw at the Flynn on Wednesday. It is very silly!!!!

Geography in the Kindergarten

We have been very busy creating and using maps in our geography unit. For the past two days we have been using various shapes to create our own maps of the classroom. Today we used our maps to play a game called Find the Animal. To play this game one student stood just outside our door while a second student placed a stuffed animal toy somewhere in the classroom. The rest of us used a dry-erase marker to draw a line on the map from the door to the animal. We then invited the first child back into the room to follow the path on the map to find the toy!

Fabulous Flynn Show

Our trip to the Flynn was great! We watched in amazement as 5 actors made 6 different books come alive on the stage with incredible music, songs and dancing. The books were

•  Duck For President by Doreen Cronin
• Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
• I Have To Go by Robert Munsch
• Leonardo The Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
• Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long
• Baby Mouse the Musical by Jennifer L. Holm & Mathew Holm

For more information you can go to the Flynn web page and click on "student matinee" for the study guide and book descriptions.

Playground Pictures From The Past

Which One Is Covered Up?

 Which One Is Covered Up is a memory game that provides opportunities for students to practice reading numerals to 10 and naming positions, using words and phrases such as below, inside, above, on top, at the bottom, etc. There are two ways to play. In the first version players examine the game board and then close their eyes while another player or teacher covers up a number. They then open their eyes to determine which number was covered. The second version involves covering all the numbers and then giving clues about what number you are going to uncover. For example: "I am going to uncover the number that is more than 5 but less than 7, what number is it?" We played this game as a whole group and then in pairs.

Reading Buddies

 We learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and his message to the world today through literature. Older students read stories to younger students about Martin Luther King Jr. Some of the books were stories about Martin Luther King Jr such as My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris and If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine. Other books were books about peace, equality, and being kind like Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. At the end of our time together one of our kindergarten students grabbed her browsing box and read some of her own stories to her older student partner. It was a fabulous way to start our day!

Kindergarten Weather Watchers

 Today was the perfect day for studying the weather! It was cloudy, then snowy, then rainy, then back to snowy! We went outside for our second weather observation, this time with black paper and magnifying glasses to observe snowflakes.

When we came back in we created a list of words to describe the weather and were delighted to discover there were many similarities and differences in the weather today compared to the weather on January 5th.

Our weather words today were: snowy, wet, crunchy, windy, rainy,icy, drippy, soft, slippery, cold, cloudy, slushy, whooshy and smushy!