Week of May 31, 2010

We had a short week this week because of Memorial Day and Field Day. The students had a blast at Field Day this week. I am sure they all slept very well Tuesday night. I took some pictures, which will be seen at the Kindergarten celebration.

In math, we learned the "Ones, Tens, Hundreds" game. In this game, the students rolled a cube to determine how many popsicle sticks to pick. The cube was labeled with 1, 3, 5, 10, 10, and 10. When a student had ten single sticks, he/she had to trade them for a bundle of ten popsicle sticks. When a student had ten bundles of popsicle sticks, he/she would trade it for a bundle of 10o popsicle sticks. The first person to get the bundle with 100 popsicle sticks wins the game. We also learned about the hour hand on a clock. To practice telling time to the hour, we made our own clocks with paper plates. To practice telling time, I would tell the students a specific time, such as 7 o'clock. They had to move the hour hand to the seven.

In reading, we learned about inferring words that we don't know the meaning of. To practice this skill we started reading the story, "The Magic Gourd" by Baba Wague Diakite. I modeled how to infer with the words drought and famine by re-reading the text to find clues that would help me. I also inferred the meaning of gourd by using the pictures in the story. In phonics and word study, we learned about consonants and vowels. With our magnetic letters, all of the consonants are blue and the vowels are red. I made the word, "sit" on the easel with magnetic letters, and the students had to identify the vowel and the consonants.

In writing we wrote in our journals. We also learned how to write the lowercase p and r in handwriting.

We also practiced the poem and song we are going to perform for our kindergarten celebration. In addition, we finished our decorations. The children's excitement is continuing to grow.

Also, please make sure your child has his/her library book for tomorrow. This Monday will be their last day of library.

Workstations:

Handwriting Workstation: the students were practicing the lowercase y and e

Writing Workstation: the students were writing about their favorite toy