We are focusing on the letter "M" this week! That gives us a good reason to read books about Monsters! Our two favorites for today were "monster mess" and "Always Listen to Your Mother".
We are making our very own monster books this week during our literacy jobs. We are also making Me Mobiles and working on a class book about Halloween.
Today we discussed book titles and how they are an important piece of information. I let them know when good readers look at the cover of a book, they also read the title and they can figure out what the book is about by asking themselves questions about the title!
In math we continue to learn about patterns; observing and discussing the characteristics of a pattern and copying and extending patterns. We even used kindergartners to make a pattern and then copied it with Unifix cubes.
We continue to work on our Science Journals.....lots of good details - love the drawings showing the roots of the trees!
Tomorrow is a Vision and Hearing screening. Results will come home soon...
We had a great morning at the pumpkin patch!!!! The weather co-operated and a good time was had by all! Thank you to all of our parents who volunteered and a special thank you to our principal, Mr. Ande! We felt so lucky to have him take time out of his day to hang-out with a bunch of kindergartners!!! He was happy to do it!
I used the little video camera for the first time today so please forgive the quality of the movies. Of course your children are such STARS I am sure you won't notice how shaky the picture is! I will add more photos later...
I also added a little clip of Max playing his ukulele with Ms. Landry playing her violin.....very charming and wonderful!
I just loved working with your oh-so-smart kindergartners today! We talked some more about writing in our journals - how pictures tell stories. It was fun using their journals to teach the concepts. They love to share their ideas!
Tomorrow we will start the day off with a quick bathroom stop and then it's back onto a bus to head to the pumpkin patch. Please send your children with hooded coats and boots if they have them - we may get rained on!
It is Silly Sock day tomorrow....send your little darling in unmatched socks if you can. Of course we did have the discussion about people who ONLY have white socks....
Are you enjoying all of the chopped-up, taped together boxes that are coming home? Your children love to make a variety of contraptions out of recycled items!
We continue to work on our "Bollywood" moves with Robin from the OT crew. They are teaching the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum each Tuesday and Thursday.
We read a fun book today titled "Aaaaarrgghh! Spider!" We also read a good book about pumpkins, "Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie" and the very scary book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" - they loved it! The best part of my day is watching their faces as they react to the books I read - so cute and sweet!
I loved working with your children during all of our literacy activities.....they are so smart! I will have to fill you in on more of that later because the tech department is about to turn the server off for a few repairs....
