Wow. Kindergarten is a very busy place!!!! In the 5 half days and now 2
full days, we have learned a lot. We began the year reading Brown Bear
and talking about the colors. We also sequenced the story and retold it
by making marker dots in the correct order. The children practiced
sorting into color families by bringing a toy from home to place on the
correct color of our mural. This year I added something new. In the
past, I have always let them glue on the characters from the story. This
year I had them draw the characters and water paint them. We traced
them with a black marker, cut them out and added them to our mural. We also sorted skittles by color. They really enjoyed this activity. Ok, I must admit, I liked it a lot too!
Sorting our toys by color
Drawing and water painting our characters
Sorting skittles by color
Awwww, I had to share. Sweet friends!
This is his 1st day of K!
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
We read
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and
discussed how his choices and attitudes affected his day. We made
"Alexanders" and decided we would make good choices and work on having
good attitudes.
Our finished mural is hanging in the hallway.
Here are some pics from outside my classroom. These are their cubbies and where I hang their work.
This is at my door.
My door. I am very proud of it!
For red day, we read
The Little Red Hen. This year we made
homemade bread so that we could understand how much work went into just
making the dough and cooking it. It turned out delicious and the kids
got to observe and predict what would happen to the dough. I have to
say, I have a really smart group! These are the pictures of us working together to make the dough for our bread.
We started letter introduction. This is the kids searching for A and a.
Center time!
I introduced rectangles on Monday. The children had to figure out our
mystery shape by using broken crayons to roll over the poster board. We
were amazed that a rectangle appeared on our paper! We finished up the
day by making rectangles using craft sticks.Overall, we have had a very
productive week.
We made rectangles using craft sticks.
I didn't get a pic of our finished bread. It was very yummy.
