Read To Self

Geography in the Kindergarten

We read "Me on the Map" today to help us accomplish the following "I can" statements:

I can find me on a map.

I can describe and identify a map or globe.

I can tell my address.

We explored some maps starting with South Hero and expanding all the way to the world. Then we started individual books. On the  cover is our house. Open it once for our street, twice for South Hero, and a third time for Vermont. 

A Wild Recess Boy

A Pig Parade

A pig parade, good idea or bad idea? This was the question in our kindergarten this morning. During morning meeting we recorded our opinions on a graph and then analyzed the data. More of us thought a pig parade was a good idea than terrible idea (surprise, surprise) 😄 In writing workshop we read the book "A Pig Parade Is A Terrible Idea" by Michael Ian Black. We did what is called a "close read," which is when you listen for a specific purpose. Our purpose was to identify the authors problem and his reasons for wanting to solve the problem. We then did a turn and to identifying them to our partners. By this time we were ready to identify our own problem or something we feel strongly about and want to change, and start writing!!!! Below are our anchor charts and the beginnings of some impressive persuasive writing. 

"I will convince Mrs. Couture I can play cars. It is fun!"

"I want to stay up past my bedtime."

"My dad should fix my four wheeler fast."

Count and Compare Unifix Cubes

In this new math game we take turns drawing cards, counting the cubes on the cards and comparing the quantities to determine which has more and which has fewer. This gives us direct practice in the following skills:

1) counting quantities from 10-27, using benchmarks of 10's, 5's and 1's.

2) comparing sets (more, less, or equal)

Happy Monday

Published Authors

We went to the fourth grade today and read them our How-To books. :)