Hello! Looking forward to starting this next full week of school. The children and I had a great last week as we both got back into the swing of things with routines of school. It was nice that it was a short week, I could tell some of the children were getting tired by Friday. The three day week really helped to ease them back into school.
This week's activities and happenings in the Kindergarten room...
Language Arts:
We are about to start one of my FaVoRiTe weeks!! We start this week off with the story of "Stone Soup". So, the children will each be bringing something to add to our own stone soup. I will bring the stone, meat and barley; the children will bring in other vegetables. We will read through the story once, then I have the children help me act it out and they get the be the townspeople and add the various items to our pot. I was certainly reminding them all to bring in their items for Monday and that we'd have 'soup that is fit for a king!' (a line from the story) and most of them looked at me like I was crazy! I will be certain to take lots of pictures and load them on to the blog later this week, maybe even tomorrow afternoon if I get a chance.
We'll also be working with our 'at' word family. We'll continue to sound out words and do more and more fabulous reading! We'll review our sight words and I hope that they are all able to do a little of this at home too! We worked on making our '2nd sight word mat' last Friday; they will go home on Monday. We play a little flashcard game together (the kids and I) and if they get the word right, they get the card...I they get it wrong, I get the card! I heard mumblings on Friday "We're gonna get her now...we'll get all the cards this time!" intersperced with giggles. Music to my ears!
Math:
We will wrap up our section on numbers and move on to geometric shapes! We will be reviewing various 2D shapes that most of the children are pretty familiar with, but then move on to exploring 3D shapes! The children always enjoy exploring with shapes and finding them hidden in our world around us!
Religion:
We will talk about the Epiphany, which was the official end of our Christmas season, that happened this past Sunday. We will talk more about the three wise men and the star they followed to find baby Jesus. We will also start our chapter dealing with learning about Jesus as a teacher.
Science:
We will explore weather! We will first talk about winter and the weather that comes with this. We will read about Polar Bears and other winter animals and what they do to survive the cold temperatures. During our winter weather discussions we'll also do a little experiment with snow. It's fun to have the children go out with their clear plastic cups, fill them up and then have the guess where the water will be when it melts. What's even more interesting is that I will allow the snow water to sit a bit longer and after awhile bacteria will start to grow. It doesn't always grow in all of the cups, but it usually does in at least a couple...and then we talk about (again, because they've been told not to before) why we should NOT eat snow. =)
Social Studies:
To go along with our cold weather science talk, we will also explore those groups of people who also live in areas where it is very cold. We will compare and contrast how they live with how we live. We will talk about their various traditions and why they may have to do some of the things differently than we do.
As always....
please be sure your child gets plenty of rest and a great healthy breakfast in the morning to help them do their best at school. The MAPS test will be coming up soon and if I get a chance I will be taking the Kindergarteners to do some 'pretesting' to get them acclimated to the computer test system. I want them to have the best chance possible to show all that they know...doing a pretest with them will allow them to do this even more!
Parents...thank you for all that you do!!! The snacks you bring are wonderful and scrumptious! Thanks also for all of your volunteer time and donations!!! We have had some generous donations to our school...some that have come to our room...supplies, etc. and coming soon we will have a Leapfrog Tag system and books to go with it! Yay for more reading opportunities!
Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful week ahead!!
~Mrs. Westlund
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