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| It was Daniel's week to share his Me Box in the morning class! We learned that Daniel loves to play games like "Spot It" and his favorite movie is Monsters University. He also enjoys Halloween and wearing his vampire teeth. Daniel enjoys spending time with his family, and he uses an alarm clock to make sure he is always on time! |
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| The afternoon class enjoyed Quinn's Me Box presentation this week! We learned that Quinn loves playing card games, building with Legos, and spending time with his family. He is an avid coin collector, and the class LOVED looking at his coins from around the world in all different shapes and sizes! Quinn's piece of fool's gold was a big hit too! |
Math
This week we reviewed 2-D and 3-D shapes and did some more work with measuring. We also introduced the dime this week and reviewed how to count by 10's when counting a collection of dimes. We also talked about "trading" some of our coins. For example, we traded 5 pennies for a nickel and 10 pennies for a dime. The kindergarten students are not expected to be able to count coins, but they should be able to name each coin and know each coin's value.
Literacy
The children learned two new sight words this week, and and what, and they brought home a new sight word book. We read several stories about weather including two books about rain. The children talked about all the facts they knew about rain and then did some expository writing using these facts. We also learned about weather throughout all four seasons and did some illustrations in the computer lab depicting our favorite type of weather. Mrs. Powers put the students' pictures into a slideshow, but there were some technical difficulties with the morning class. Click here for the afternoon class.
The children continue to make great progress with their writing. In addition to writing about rain this week, the children also wrote about what they did over the weekend, and they wrote a book response to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
St. Patrick's Day
We got a little bit of a head start on some of our St. Patrick's Day activities. We read a story called The Leprechaun's Gold and made St. Patrick's Day crowns to wear on Monday. We also did some St. Patrick's Day math. We gave our leprechauns some gold. Then we gave him some more gold and wrote number sentences to match--8 pieces of gold plus 4 more pieces of gold equals 12 pieces of gold in all (8 + 4 = 12).
Centers
The children did a nice job working in centers this week while I met with students in guided reading groups.
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| Reading to a furry friend |
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| Playing Top It |
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| Reading to a furry friend |
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| Motessori Crosswords on the iPad |
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| Listening Center Looking forward to another great week! |
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