What a busy day! We started our day finishing our suitcase for postcards even before the bell rang. I didn't get a chance to put on the handles so they will come home next Monday. We worked with the th sound today. This is a tricky sound for many kindergarten students because they may still be substituting the /f/ for /th/. We worked to make sure we were putting our tongue between the front teeth and force air through the teeth. We will continue to work with this sound, especially looking for the letters in print. We want children to see them and know it's the /th/ and not /t/ and /h/ separately. I remind them I don't want to hear t-huh. We also reviewed red words that are still tricky. We worked with for, come, do and put. We practiced writing them on white boards, which always seems to bring out the best in handwriting! We talked briefly about adding s and sometimes es to words to make words plural. It's important for children to hear the words to help them, at this point, to know whether it is s or es, so as they are writing, they should be softly saying the word and tapping out the sounds. In science we talked about motion paths. Ask me to tell you the five motion paths. If they need help, ask them to thing about a train, a seesaw, a merry-go-round, a snake and a swing. We continue to check in on the eagles at the Arboretum. I had seen a funny video of Mr. President trying to get Lotus to move off the nest, at least that's what the moderators thought. He kept putting a stick on or near her, and she would move it away. I couldn't share it with the kids since it was on Instagram, but I found another video of Mr. President trying to work a very big stick into the nest railings. He had some difficulty. Someone added talking bubbles to the video, and one of the children asked if the person that made the video knew "eagle talk language." I added the video to the bottom of the blog if you would like to watch it! We read a book called Can You Say Peace, by Karen Katz. This book is a sweet book that introduces the word peace in many different languages. We talked about what peace means to us. Then we looked at photographs of the beautiful country of Ukraine. We talked a little more about what is happening, and what it means the people of Ukraine can and cannot do. Then we wrote about what peace means to us. Their writing was very thoughtful and from their heart. I was really proud of what they did. We will be hanging it proudly on our bulletin board outside our classroom. We didn't really have enough time to create sunflowers, so we will do this Monday. Please look in your child's backpack to find a COVID test kit. Have a wonderful weekend! Miss Wolfe
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This was the easiest Talk Time this year! These kids sure know how to make others happy! We talked about little things and big things that make others happy. Ask me to tell you what I can do that makes others happy.
Yesterday we took another practice Benchmark assessment. We practiced really listening to the comprehension questions and making sure we looked at all the possible choices for answers before we clicked on our choice. We know that kindergarten students need more practice in how to take a test, especially online. We also practice using the "elevator" in the middle of the page to pull down the page so they can see all the illustrations that go with the story and to see all the possible choices for answers. Today we made our suitcases for our Read the U.S.A. postcards while I was calling reading groups. I'll send these home tomorrow. We watched a short video about Light Up the Night, a fundraiser we are doing for childhood blood cancers. I will be sending out an e-mail about the fundraiser and with the link to the video so you can see what this is all about. We also talked a little about what is happening in the Ukraine. I kept it simple and didn't share any pictures of the fighting, but tomorrow we will read a book about the Ukraine, see some photographs of this beautiful country, and will be making sunflowers in art stations to put in the hallway in support of the people of Ukraine. I wanted to let you know in case your child has any questions about what is happening there. I'll take pictures to show you the art they create for our hallway. We continue to check in with the eagles on the nest at the Arboretum. I think the first egg will hatch March 23, and the second on March 26. Right now there isn't a whole lot going on, but the children have been so engaged and have asked so many questions. Have a nice evening! Miss Wolfe We had a great day! We started our journey to read across America. We are going to try and read one book from each state. Your child will bring home a postcard from the state we read and can keep it in a suitcase we hope to make tomorrow. Today your child is bringing home a postcard from Oklahoma. We started in Oklahoma so we could read a couple books by Woody Guthrie who was from Oklahoma. The children enjoyed singing along to This Land is Your Land and to Riding in My Car. I will also be publishing a Google Classroom to go along with our trips so you can find out more about the state is you wish! We used the rekenreks today in math to show different numbers broken into two parts. The children did a great job of thinking of different ways to make numbers 7-9. When we work with rekenreks, we slide all the beads to the right. The beads are in groups of five white or five red. This helps the children get a good understanding of the number 5. They can move five over together then think about how many more they need for a number. We used both the top and bottom bunk on our rekenrek to show the numbers. We also worked on breaking sticks of cubes apart and making a number bond and equation that goes with the number. In science we read a book called Bird Builds a Nest, by Martin Jenkins. This is a great book to help introduce push and pull in science. It also got us thinking about all the work birds and other animals with nests do to build their nests. We will be working more with push and pull tomorrow.
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