Stormy day - we are having our "What if the power goes off" talk just in case! It has flickered a few times...
We read many wonderful books today! Our favorites were "Frank was a Monster who wanted to Dance" (gross AND funny - right up these kindergartner's alley!), "Haunted Party", and "Mostly Monsterly".
Some of our literacy activities this week are writing fun Halloween words, make an elephant book and listening to "Skeleton Meets the Mummy". As good readers the kindergartners are learning to use the title and the cover to help them predict what words might be in the text.
For math we had fun lining up in order of our bug number cards. We practiced counting by 1's, instant recognition of quantities to 5, recognizing 1 more, seeing quantities in relationship to 5 and to 10, and matching sets and numerals.
For science we read the book "Leaves in Fall" and then compared the shapes of leaves and played a Leaf Silhouette game.
Oh, and the best....we got to do another day of Halloween Gym!!! The pictures do not do it justice - it is REALLY dark and scary in there!
It was a very fun day!
Whew......we sure did a lot this week...................
Can you believe your wonderful children have been kindergartners for only 33 days!!!!!!!!
Wow....time flies when you are having fun! We started off our busy day with some "Handwriting Bollywood Dancing". Come on, I know you wish you were here!
Our literacy activities were some of the best parts of the day. We continued to discuss how good readers can use a book's title and picture - using them to help us predict what a book is about. We practiced asking questions while we were reading a book. We read many more monster books today...our favorite: "Goodnight Little Monster".
In math we continued our work with patterns - discovering, copying and extending them. For snack we like to make "Chicken Soup" (dumping a variety of crackers, and pretzels together). This helps us to have lots of choices to make patterns with on our snack mats. I am seeing many ABABAB patterns, ABCABCABC patterns and even AABBAABB patterns. Ask your very smart mathematician kindergartner what I am talking about! Click here to print out a fun bug pattern worksheet to do at home!
Thank you for sending snack. We use it the same day or stick it in the closet if we need to use up something else from the day before. It is nice to a have a "full larder"! If we don't get it out of the backpack please keep sending it back with an email to let me know I need to help your child remember - sorry if it takes more than one reminder!
Our Halloween party is coming up on Friday, October 29th. There are many ways to help out....be watching for an email from Patrick's mother Dinah! Volunteering in the morning, volunteering in the afternoon for getting into costumes, walking in the parade, serving food, sending in paper products, healthy food and sugar cookies or cupcakes and all of the stuff that goes on top.....
