Engineers, Structure and Function

Morning Activities....

Math...
Practicing our numbers. We have been practicing writing our numbers. We also have been counting A LOT!!! We will count daily. We are even trying to count to 100 and its only our third week into the Kindergarten year. Feel free to practice with your child the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. We have also been playing a game called "Spill the Beans!" We have 5 beans in a cup. Each bean has a red side and a white side. We have partners, shake the beans and "Spill the beans!" on the table. Then we fill in the number on our sheets that were red. It's been a very fun game for all.  We have also been talking a lot about patterns. Our calendar this year is showing a lot about shapes, and the kind of shapes that are in our day to day world.

Free Choice......

BUDDIES!!!!!!!!
Woohooo!!! We have buddies from Elizabeth Tarno's 5/6th grade class. We had a great first visit. We met our buddies and then did a project with them to get to know each other a little more. It was a great first visit and we look forward to many more. Thank you buddies!!1

Science....
We started our new unit about Structure and Function.
1.) Engineer - a person who asks questions, observes, gathers info and invents things.
2.) Structure - thinking about it's shape and size. Thinking about how big, small or the shape of something that is created.
3.) Function - what we use it for.

Kids were challenged to draw a picture that might "hold water," ie: cup, pool, tea cup (were some ideas)or "something you can use to clean the table" etc.

We also had the project make a beanstalk with pipe cleaners. They had to design a structure that had the function of holding the "golden egg".  We hope you come to Open House next week to see all the cool things we have been doing over the past three weeks!

Computer time....

We have computer time once a week where we get to work on a program called Lexia. For those who don't know about this program, we will discuss with you more in detail at your parent conference in the fall. In a nutshell, Lexia is a developmental reading program. It is individual and follows along with your child. As your child develops a concept of understanding within the program, it automatically advances your child to the next level. From letter ID to rhyming and recalling parts of a story and so much more. 

We also have Lexia as a free time option. No one has to do it, but it is there if they want to do it.

Week Two at a glance

MORNING ACTIVITIES.....

Matching Madness....
We are given a picture and we need to find the match. This is part of our morning meeting as we are learning about each other and developing friendships. It also a great way that we incorporate some Language Arts or Math and they don't even realize it! Fun games for days!!!!!

Math.....

Getting ready to do some math. First lets play with our white boards and markers. A little quiet coloring is in order. 

Counting from 0-10 and 0-20! Thank you friends for feeling confident and going to the front of the class to count. So many of you did it, we know many will follow as time goes on. Nice work Kids!!!

Language arts

This week we started to learn our letters. We began  with the letter B!  We have a friend who helps us learn our letters, his name is Echo. Echo tells us about our letter card then the kids “echo” what he says. We also had a bag of objects all starting with the letter B. Box, bracelet, belt, butterfly, bean, box, bell, etc.