Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Terrific Tuesday!

We are having an amazing week in Kindergarten learning about Fall and Apples.  Every morning we come into school and unpack our backpacks.  After we take our Monkey Binders out of our backpack, we put our backpacks in our cubbies and we start our morning work.  We also put our lunch boxes on the cart and make our lunch choice on the SmartBoard.

We put our morning work in our mailboxes and then we gather on the rug for Calendar time.  We love to sing Hello Neighbor with all our friends.  After this, we go to Letterland. Today, we rode a motorcycle to Letterland and we got to meet two new Letterlanders.  Yesterday we met Fix it Max and Walter Walrus. Today, we met Yellow Yo-Yo Man and Zig Zag Zebra.



After Letterland, we go to Specials.  We had TWO specials today!  We went to PE and to the Library. We got to check out new books at the library!  After Specials we usually go outside for recess.  We have not gone outside at all this week!  It has been rainy and wet so we have to do recess inside. Yesterday, Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller let us have free centers during recess.  Today, Mrs. Feller read us a big book and then we did GoNoodle on the SmartBoard.  It was fun!

The next part of our day is really important.  We do Daily 5! Yesterday, we made it all the way to 20 minutes for Read to Self.  Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller were so excited for us.  Mrs. Deaton even did a cartwheel on the carpet.  It was so funny.  She did a great job! Today, we got to do a LOT of different things in Daily 5.  Some of us did Read to Self.  Some of us did iStation on the iPads.  Some of us got to go to Book Club with Mrs. Deaton.  Some of us did Working with Words.
"We got to read to ourselves and pick our special spot." Jason
"I had fun with Mrs. Deaton in Book Club." Olive
"I did iStation. I learned about rhyming words." Myah
"I was on iStation. I learned about different words." Bryant
"I had to say different letters and words in 5 seconds." Tenley
"I did Raz-Kids on the iPad." Bryce
"I did iStation." Holden
















We went to lunch after Daily 5.  Lunch was delicious!! After lunch we did Work Centers.
"I sorted D and S pictures." Olivia
"I put pattern blocks on a picture of an apple." Leia
"I glued 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 apples on the trees." Maddie




The last thing we did was Math.  We are learning about shapes in math this week.  We talked about triangles yesterday and squares today.  We sang some cool songs about shapes and watched a Brainpop Jr. video about them too.  We did Math Centers all about numbers and shapes.
"A square has 4 sides and 4 corners." Persea
"A square has the same length sides." Olivia M.
"A triangle has 3 sides and 3 corners." Aaliyah
"I put numbers in order." Iker
"I got on iStation math." Treasure
"I drew shapes in my book." Carter
"I did iStation math today." Patrick
"I put the apples in order on a hat for my head." Zach
"I went to Math Club with Mrs. Deaton." Sophie
"I worked with a ten frame.  We colored ten frames too." Tenley











So far, this week has been fun, great, exciting and awesome.  We love Kindergarten so much! KINDERGARTEN ROCKS!!!








Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Good and Poor Choices

Today we talked about the choices we make in school.  We sorted our choices on the pocket chart. We have some good choices and some poor choices.


Here are our good choices:

Hands to self
Pay attention
Line up nicely
Play safely and respectfully.  Always share!
Help others
Listening ears
Sit criss-cross applesauce
Sit nicely
Gentle hands
Clean up
Do our work
Here are our poor choices:

Running inside the building
Lying down during carpet time 
Biting
Hitting and punching
Pushing
Talking during lessons
Throwing toys
Fighting
We know how to make good choices in school.  We are smart children and know how to always make good decisions!  Kindergarten is awesome!