Ask me about Wednesday and thursday, march 13- 14, 2024

We have been busy in kindergarten!  We are practicing our Heart Words and using them to write sentences on our white boards.  We are doing a really great job remembering to begin sentences with a capital letter, put spaces between words and end our sentence with punctuation.  I put a tricky two syllable word in each sentence we write and the children are pounding out the syllables then tapping out the sounds in each syllable.  
Today we read one of my favorite stories called Love Is My Favorite Thing, by Emma Chichester Clark.  This is the story of a dog named Plum who has trouble with self-control and gets herself into trouble.  She worries her family and friends won't love her anymore but learns in the end that she will always be loved.  Ask me to tell you about what Plum does in the story that gets her in trouble.  We made a text-to-text connection to a class favorite Oh No George, that we read earlier in the year.  

For our picture talk on Wednesday, we collected data on favorite Disney movies.  It's not looking good for the princesses!  Ask me to tell you about the data on our Disney survey.

We have been reading about technology in our Benchmark reading, so today we looked at phones from now and long ago.  We analyzed these pictures looked at the parts that make up the phones,  and compared how they are the same and different.  We also shared which phone was our favorite.  OK, and I'll confess, I showed them a minute of the Andy Griffith Show so they could see how the phones from long ago worked.  

We continued to talk about force and motion today.  Next week we will test out different textures to see how a ping pong ball, marble and car move on them, and if the direction or speed changes on the different surfaces.

Today when I picked up the class in the cafeteria, we had one table that had children up on their knees, playing around, and pushing lunch boxes and water bottles around.  We have kids flipping water bottles both in the classroom and in the lunchroom.  I have talked to them about this behavior in the lunchroom and was talking to them in the hall about it when Mr. Smith told me he also had talked to them and told them to stop.  We had another talk in the classroom about respecting all adults in the building and doing what they are told.  That is the bad news.  The good news is they had a substitute in P.E. who actually walked them back to the classroom to tell me he would be happy to sub for me anytime because they were so good in P.E.  That is a huge compliment.  P.E. is an area where kids could easily get wound up and have trouble following directions especially when there is a substitute.  Mr. Tom has built so many good routines with the children that they were able to cooperate with a substitute.  I was really proud of them and happy to hear that they behaved so well with a substitute teacher.  

Have a great evening!
​Miss Wolfe