Ask me about thursday, november 12, 2020

We had a busy day!  We started our day chatting in small groups in breakout rooms as students came in.  They were talking about characters from movies.  A couple groups had some problems.  One group had someone screaming and yelling while kids were trying to talk.  We had talked about a signal we could use to let people know they needed to stop so someone else could be heard.  Another group had friends who did not stick to the topic.  This is why we do these types of activities.  Learning to stick to the topic is something we work on in kindergarten.  We will continue to work on listening to each other as well.  When we came back together, I asked the children to tell me what someone else said in their group, and some were not able to do that.  We also need to work to be sure the kids are learning the names of other children.

In Benchmark, we read a shared reading about a fox and a bear.  Ask me to tell you what happened in this very short story.  We practiced visualizing as I read, so we did not look at the illustrations first.  We read the story and drew what we visualized, talked a little about the details in the story that should also be in the illustration, then looked at the illustration in the book and compared.  We added details to show how the characters were feeling.  We talked about the word sneaky.  Ask me to tell you what it means to be sneaky and who was sneaky in the story.
We talked more about the characters in Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We talked about text dependent questions, or 'right :there" questions that are in the book and illustration.  Then we talked about the characters and chose one to describe in writing.

In math, we talked about triangles, and what makes a triangle.  We also used virtual geoboards to make triangles, rectangles and squares.  The link to this is in my Google classroom.

Let's hope this rain stops soon!
Have a nice evening!
​Miss Wolfe