Muscles

Morning Meeting....
We did the usual, counting, calendar, chart. The other day our chart was kinda funny because the question was "how much snow do you think we will get?" Answers, as we thought, would be all over the place! Some answers were 87", 10 feet, 3 feet, 7", etc.  Very cute. Fun to see the minds run wild, or in their world their reality.

Another chart was they had to draw themselves skiing. We have some really good artists!

We also spent some time reviewing our goals. We wrote goals last November/December about things we want to work toward accomplishing by the time we leave Kindergarten. Those goals we have been working on since we put them up in the room. If you write it, it will happen! Sure enough, each of the kids have been working on goals, some have accomplished time, some of us will continue to work on them. It was great to see the faces when their goal was read and they realized they could do it already!

Beth reading our goals and discussing them with each of the kids.

Outside time....
We just can't get enough of this fluff!

It's pretty deep!

 White washes!

 Ethan "Connie, my mom isn't going to believe that I jumped from up here. She's going to ask me if I broke any bones."

Connie "What are you going to tell her Ethan."

Ethan "That I can jump and I broke for a few minutes, but I am ok."

 

Luca "Watch me Connie!"

Luca jumps, stands up and says "Did you see that? Look at my face!"

Connie "Luca, you are so brave! I don't think I could do that."

Luca "You can Connie, your like a kid."

Connie "Luca, you make me smile. Thank you."

Science...

We talked this week about muscles. Today we worked on making our own Arm and using rubber bands and how our arm bends, our muscles lengthen and shorten depending on our movements.
What happens when we flex our muscles?
What happens when we exercise ?  Oscar "Our muscles get bigger and stronger." 

Lungs!

Morning Meeting....
We continue to work on counting and reading the chart. Now-a-days, we have kids writing the chart for the next day. We have been taking time to review the calendar. Looking at the different parts of the calendar and recognizing that we are reading the calendar. Also noticing patterns too. We play games each day. Sometimes we have an individual greeting or sometimes we say "what's the news?"

Math....
Number bonds and number sentences are the name of the game these days. While it isn't always easy, it is a good challenge. Breaking down groups of objects and then separating it create a number bond and/or a number sentence. 6 = 2 + 4, or 4 + 2 = 6.

Language Arts....
We are still doing stations. Reading in small groups. Worksheets. Independent reading as well and some reading games.

Free Choice/Recess....
It's been great to have this snow.

Science....
We have been studying about the human body, Structure and Function. Last week we started to talk about the lungs and the purpose of the lungs, and got to make our own! Check us out.

  

Art...
Kids came back from Art today and were looking very Royal. I couldn't resist a picture of all the Kings, Queens, Knights, Princesses and Princes. Hail to the Primary Color Royal Kindergarten Family.

Books books and more books

Teachable moments...
They happen all the time, but today this one stood out. When looking at our ten's frame and counting to the number of days we have been in school, Luca asked "why is there a 0 in our number 108?" Beth took this moment to discuss 1's, 10's and 100's. It's a big concept at this age, but when the question arises you take the opportunity to explain.

Book Corner....
Earlier in the week we had a chance to each choose a book that we liked. We brought our book back to circle and told the class why we liked the book. Every chance we have had to read a book that the kids brought to us, we have been reading them. The kids may have liked the title, have read the book before or just liked the characters in the book they choose. Here are a few that they liked and we have read this week.

Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Berenstain Bears Down on the Farm

Butterflies

Math....
The clap game. We listen to the number of times that Beth claps her hands and then we have to write the number our white boards. It is hard to listen to all the claps. Serious concentration is required!

We also practiced more with number bonds. Listening to a story the kids have to put the unifix cubes where they should go on the number bond page. 

Language Arts....

We have been reading a lot! This week we got beginner reader books and are coloring in our pages. We will be taking home this book today to continue practicing our reading skills.  It's a funny book all about Cats!

Free Choice....

Coloring and painting

 Playdough

Building with Jenga blocks.

Fish lips!

 Narumi practicing reading her Cat book she just made.

Architects in the making.

The Zoo with Stella and Sedsel.

 Willow and Ashlyn creating their shopping list.

Zoe and Ethan playing house

Morning Meeting....
This weeks challenge....NO CALLING OUT! We are working on kids being respectful when others are talking and also raising our hands when we want to be heard.

We shared "what's the news" today. Everyone went around the room and shared what they did this weekend.

Letter matching. We were handed either a lower case letter or an upper case letter and then you had to walk around and find it's match. Lowercase "n" to uppercase "N".

Math....
Practicing writing numbers on our white boards. We had to write the number that "comes next." Beth would say a number and kids had to write the number that came next.

We continue to work on number bonds. This time we have to figure out where the lines for the number bonds go. We are connecting the bonds to create the proper equation.


Language Arts....
We are continuing with our stations. We have the folder station that kids work on individual worksheets that practice writing letter and recognizing and making words.  We are also practicing writing their names using lines on the paper, writing a capital letter for the first letter in their name and then using the rest lower case. We also have a station for Lexia on the iPads and reading books in small groups.


Book Corner....
Captain Peppers Pets   Anything but a parrot! Captain Pepper wants a pet. He wants to be different . . . he wants to be famous . . . so a boring old parrot just won’t do. The fiery captain sets his pirate crew to find the perfect pet. They try a hippopotamus, a monkey and a leopard – each with hilariously disastrous results. Finally, they alight upon a python and Captain Pepper is delighted! But the last laugh is on him when his not so cuddly companion has him for dinner! At last his browbeaten crew can sail home in peace. 


Recess....

 Future Olympians practicing the skeleton run.

Mermaids and Mermen.

Boys Ahoy!