Art show

Thank you to the families who sent in some snacks. We really appreciate it! The kids all say THANK YOU!

Morning Activities...

Rhyming words.

Quiet reading.

Creating lego villages.

Ethan - "That green one is a snake drinking water at the water hole."

Morning Meeting....
Recognizing shapes and colors. The shapes are getting harder. Not only do we know circle, triangle, square, rectangle, but we know oval, hexagon, trapezoid, pentagon, heart and octagon! Many colors besides the normal primary such as turqoise, maroon, etc.

What kind of people do you like to be around? 
Many responses included; kind, friendly, helpful, nice, etc. "What goes around, comes around." Said Skyler. How you treat someone is hopefully how you want to be treated back whether it comes back to your right away or it can take time to come back around. But worth the wait.  We continue to address ways of being kind. Never enough kindness in this world, but in our little world, we can encourage that kind of behavior all the time, and we are. Talk to your child about some ways that they are kind or what they think is ways of being kind to others. 

Art show.... Today is our quick trip to the Art Show by Students in the Washington West District. We are going by bus to the barn at Lareau Farm Barn. You are more than welcome to go visit and see all the fabulous art work. All art work will be displayed until June 2nd.

Kindergartens amazing tide pools are on display!

 

 Walking around with our upper unit partners finding all kinds of art.

Great hand painted chairs from our partners in the upper unit. Many are being auctioned off. You can bid for your very own. All funds are going to Puerto Rico.  Go to Warren School website and click on the link for "Paintings for Puerto Rico"

Book Corner....
Ugly Fish by Kara LaReau.  "Ugly Fish is ugly and big and mean, and he won't share his driftwood tunnel or his special briny flakes with anyone. That means the wimpy little fish who keep showing up in his tank have got to go. But then one day someone bigger and uglier and maybe even meaner arrives . . . and suddenly Ugly Fish isn't feeling quite so confident anymore."

The Little Red Hen by Philemon Sturges. "Little Red Hen is not a new one, but when this particular hen spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and decides to make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a fresh new twist."

The Raft by Jim LaMarche. "This is an imagination-sparking story about appreciating the simple, natural joys of the world and the people in it, and about discovering and exploring one’s own talents."



Outside Fun.....
Love seeing the daisies out and being used to create some flower crowns. Or wristletts.

Outside Fun

SNACKS!!!!!!  In need. Please if you can, provide us some snacks to share. We don't have any left for kids who may not bring in snack. So, if you can, a box of cheerios, pretzels, bag of apples, granola bars, goldfish, crackers, etc. Anything helps, especially on these very long, extended days. Thank you!

Book Corner...
Spot Goes To The Beach by Eric Hill.  An interactive lift-the-flap book.

Pete the Cat, Pete's Big Lunch by James Dean. "Pete the Cat is hungry. What should he make for lunch? Pete decides to make a sandwich!  But this isn't an ordinary sandwich. . . . Pete has some pretty groovy ideas about what should go inside. And the bigger this sandwich gets, the more ideas Pete has! But what happens if Pete's sandwich gets too big for him to eat?"

Berenstain Bears Double Dare "Will Brother remain a follower, or will he learn the importance of thinking for himself? This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children about being an individual and how to resist bad influences."

Outside fun!

New structure on the playground. 

Building! Dragging the big log over to add to thier house.

Jack "Skyler! What are you doig?"

Skyler "moving the stuff off the log."

Baden "what stuff? What good does that do?

Jack "yeah, what do you think that will do. You aren't being helpful."

Skyler "I'm taking the stuff off so it doesn't stick to me."
Jack "Oh. I guess thats fine."

Baden "Hey look! I found lots of ants!"

Jack "And a worm."

Baden "common, take more off off the log."

"Let's see who can get the highest."

Rods and Cubes

Morning Activities....

Morning Meeting....
Have you ever asked your child to count with you? Next time you think of it, whether you are in the car, at dinner, bath time, etc you can ask your child to count by 1s, 10s or count backwards from 20-1. The chart has parts missing some days. Today we were missing a couple sight words that if kids noticed they could put those words in. As well as puctuation. There were a couple of "periods" that were missing and they were filled in by someone.

Greeting: today we rolled the ball to a friend at circle. This works on following directions, look the person they are rolling the ball to and say good morning.


Book Corner...
Bathtime for Busquit by, Alyssa Satin Capucilli. "In a beginner book about the popular puppy, Biscuit runs away from his bath and rolls in the dirt with his puppy friend, Puddles."

Where's the Big Bad Wolf by Eileen Christelow. "Whenever there’s trouble on Detective Doggedly’s beat, that low-down, no-good, chicken-chasing, pig-poaching Big Bad Wolf is always the prime suspect. But when the three little pigs’ house is huffed and puffed into a pile of straw and only a sheep named Esmeralda is found at the scene of the crime, Doggedly has a new mystery to solve: Where’s the Big Bad Wolf? With the help of some wise elderly cows who live in a home across the road, Doggedly sniffs out the clues. But can he catch the culprit before the three little pigs get gobbled up?"


Math....
In math today we continued to build numbers with rods and cubes.  We built numbers like 43.  The kids used 4 rod that are worth ten and 3 cubes to make 43.  

          

Th

Morning Activities....

Working hard to...

...Watch the blocks tumble!

Scratch art.

Coloring.

Make your own pictures with stickers. 

Morning Meeting....
Reading the chart! The kids can read the entire chart almost all by themselves. It's pretty incredible to see how far they have come since the first day of Kindergarten. We did our daily counting. We also did a word match. Kids had to find thier partner with the word they had. All the words are sight words that they had to match.

Hula Balu Hula Balu, this is what I say to you... move like a...

FROG

BUTTERFLY

CLOUD (that was a cluster of clouds, a storm cloud rolling in)

Book Corner....
Froggy's Worst Playdate by Jonathan London. A play date with a girl? Froggy is horrified! What will his friends say? But when Dad bribes him with the promise of a movie outing, Froggy has to agree, even if he won't sit next to Frogilina. She might try to kiss him. EEWW! 

Language Arts....
We introduced the sound "th". We came up with words that start with "Th". Here are some workds we thought of; think, thought, thank, Thursday, Thayer, thanks, thump, thumb, the, that, Thanksgiving.


Math...
Using 10's rods and ones