Change Over Time

We are learning about change and growth over time. Each day I show a picture of one of us as a baby and we try to guess who it is. This is a great way to see how much we have changed in 5-6 short years. This student is showing us what she wore home from the hospital. Boy has she grown! :)

More Book Lovers

Writing Tools

During Writing Workshop today we talked about using another writing tool, our alphabet chart. Using this new tool will help us as we work throughout the year on common core standard K.W.3 Writing: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. It will also help with a language standard, K.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

1. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds 

2. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

Welcome!

We are so happy to have a new friend join our class!

Book Lovers

One of our biggies during reading workshop is being book lovers, not book bullies. Here are some examples of kids doing just that.

Reading Workshop Posters

Pattern Block Designs

This work place has students copy designs from printed cards, first with real blocks and then by recording with pattern block stickers. This allows us to move from 2 to 3 dimensional. It also allows us to practice recognizing and naming shapes, counting, taking shapes apart and fitting them back together, and exploring relationships between various shapes.

Leaf Man

We read and explored the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. If you have never seen this book, check it out, it is amazing! The kids and I were amazed and inspired by the pictures which were made with leaves. So, of course, we went outside to collect leaves to create our own pictures. 

Community Service

We have been very busy helping out right in our own backyard planting bulbs in the school garden. Mrs. Warren supplied the bulbs and we went to work! We are excited to have contributed to the beauty of our school and now have another reason to look forward to Spring :)

Beat You To Ten

We have been playing this game for a few weeks during math workplace time, and we love it! When playing students spin a spinner with the numerals 0-3. They then read the numeral and count out that amount of Unifix cubes and place them on the game board. The board consists of two stacks of 5 for each player. The first player to reach 10 wins! Not only is this game fun but while playing we are practicing important skills like counting to 10,comparing quantities, reading numbers to 10, and adding 2 or more quantities. 

Guest Readers

We were lucky enough to have two second graders pick us as their PBIS reward! Of all the choices they had, these two picked reading to the kindergarten. A great experience for all!!!!

Reading Workshop

A glimpse into Reading Workshop