Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Kids worked hard today. Grew their brains!

Finding the ten and ones of the teen numbers is starting to click!

And writing numbers past 20, and learning the pattern is keeping some of the kids on their toes!!!

Recess was a blast (even if it was chilly).

Ice cream sandwiches were a wonderful way to celebrate a year full of learning and growing!

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

I feel like I barely saw the kids today...

Right away Mrs. Rogers had a lesson with them about ways to get calm when they are feeling in the red zone. I was not in, because I was finishing up my Aimsweb testing.

Then they had art with Mrs. Voth and drew a giraffe that was moving (I think).

In math we counted to 100, and then saw the pattern of the written numbers to 100. I think this will click soon (if it hasn't already).

Then we wrote stories about families. Mostly the kids chose to write stories about their families. I LOVE that I can read them!!!

After lunch Mrs. Gering was the teacher for the rest of the day while I went to a meeting. I was not sure I would be able to go, because my original sub canceled at the last minute.

I think they had a great afternoon.

It was hat day and for sure fun to see a variety of hats around school.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Kindergarten is a wonderful place to be these days (and all days, really).

The students practiced the long e sound (spelled ee), and discovered our high frequency words "come" and "does." Boy were they shocked to see how they are spelled after saying the sounds and thinking that they knew how to spell them.

In reading we are studying all types of families and how things can be sorted into families. The students sorted buttons and told how they sorted.

In math we continue to work with numbers in the teens. For 15 we say ten five, and that helps us write the next number ten six (16). They can easily go between the way we count and the "say ten" way of counting.

Our chapter book read aloud The Doll People is getting exciting. The students love drawing and writing about the story. I looked up and she had written the words "the basement." I asked her how did you know how to spell that? She looked at me as if I was crazy, "I said the sounds." All of the students are soooooooo good at listening to the sounds and being able to then write the word. They rarely ask me how to spell something, and if they do, I just unblend the word, and off they go to write it on their own.

Magic.

I'm looking forward to more magic tomorrow!

April 19, 2017 (Field Trip to Harvey County West Park)

Today was beautiful. Sunny. Full of joy and appreciation.

We fished.

We played.

We hiked.

We saw some animals.

We rotated through stations.

We came home tired, thirsty and happy.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Many great things happened today. Here are two:

1. Kids organizing/counting sticks into piles of 10 (makes it easier to count quickly since we are practicing counting by 10s).

2. Reading to someone.

Tomorrow is going to be a Wonderful Wednesday!!!

PS--I am super loving the reading progress that the Kinders are making!!!

Monday, March 27, 2017

What a joyful day for me! It was so good to see my lovely students after being gone for many days of spring break.

We got right back to business as usual (reading, writing and math).

The high frequency words this week are: help, too.

We are reviewing all short vowel sounds, but do that with comparing to the long vowel sound and then thinking about how to spell both.

The kids played a quick partner game in math: how many dots, how many more make 5, and what is the number sentence? Pretty much pros after 2 minutes. Then one student asked: Can we do this with tens frames? Yes, my student!!!

There seemed to be a large amount of "tattling" today, so we listened to "Don't Squeal Unless it is a Big Deal." Hoping that will help us be good friends for the rest of the year (and years to come).

I taught the kids about Read to Someone today. Boy was that fun!

And we ended the day talking about our awesome science field trip that will happen in April. The note came home today, please fill it out and send it back as soon as possible!

Looking forward to a Terrific Taco Tuesday!

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Welcome to another great day of reading to self!!! Today, the kids made it for 5 minutes and might have gone longer, but we will gradually increase, until they can read for 15 minutes!

The SmartBoard center today was reading a story from our reading series. Loved seeing the "teacher" teach the others.

No picture of this, but a fun game we have been playing is "ready, set, add!" Today I challenged students to be faster than me.

Now they are ready for the next challenge... Stay tuned!!!