We started our morning by completing the rainbows we started on Monday...It certainly felt a bit odd to be making our beautiful "April showers bring May flowers" project while the snow was coming down outside! :-)
We spent time at Morning Meeting sharing about our feelings and adding a sentence about our feelings to our share time. All children also wrote an added sentence to their jounnal using a "feeling" word.
During Reader's Workshop, we introduced and started to make a chart of what defines and differentiates Fairy Tales from Folk Tales. As we begin this unit, we will add to our definition and hopefully even act some out! Today we read the The Little Red Hen which taught us the importance of helping when being asked.
We started new math stations which are focused on the end of our shapes unit and the beginning of our review and re-introduction of addition and subtraction. At the Game Station, students learned to play Uno, while others completed an activity called "Drip, Drip, Drop" where children picked a raindrop, wrote the number, circled a group of 10, and then created an equation. At the exploration station, Kindergarteners worked in pairs with 4 or 5 shapes. After creating a bigger shape and tracing it, they changed pattern blocks with their partner and created a different shape. A lot of fun was had as evidenced by the many giggles at the table.
We ended our day by sharing some of our smarts that we talked about in Open Circle last week. We have explained that we all have "smarts"- many of them we are still working on! Some shared about their "big brother smarts", while others shared that they are working on their "reading smarts". We will send these home soon and hope your child will be able to explain to you that we are all "growing our smarts".
We spent time at Morning Meeting sharing about our feelings and adding a sentence about our feelings to our share time. All children also wrote an added sentence to their jounnal using a "feeling" word.
During Reader's Workshop, we introduced and started to make a chart of what defines and differentiates Fairy Tales from Folk Tales. As we begin this unit, we will add to our definition and hopefully even act some out! Today we read the The Little Red Hen which taught us the importance of helping when being asked.
We started new math stations which are focused on the end of our shapes unit and the beginning of our review and re-introduction of addition and subtraction. At the Game Station, students learned to play Uno, while others completed an activity called "Drip, Drip, Drop" where children picked a raindrop, wrote the number, circled a group of 10, and then created an equation. At the exploration station, Kindergarteners worked in pairs with 4 or 5 shapes. After creating a bigger shape and tracing it, they changed pattern blocks with their partner and created a different shape. A lot of fun was had as evidenced by the many giggles at the table.
We ended our day by sharing some of our smarts that we talked about in Open Circle last week. We have explained that we all have "smarts"- many of them we are still working on! Some shared about their "big brother smarts", while others shared that they are working on their "reading smarts". We will send these home soon and hope your child will be able to explain to you that we are all "growing our smarts".
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