1st 9 weeks Perfect Attendance!

Way to go to these boys and girls!!

Mystery Readers!

We are LOVING our mystery readers! We read the clues each day to predict who we think the reader will be! It is so fun to hear them talk about who they think it is. This week our mystery reader wrote they like to play football. Some students were guessing it was their grandmother! :)

Thank you to Parker's Mom! She read us a Clifford story. She brought us Clifford hats to make! 

Thank you to this weeks reader- Gavin's Dad! He read The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin!

Happy 50th Day of School!

 

Monday was our 50th day of school! We dressed with a 50s theme: pink, white, black, jeans, scarves, etc. We read Harold and the Purple Crayon because it was written in the 1950s. We discussed whether the book was fiction or non-fiction and why.

We practiced writing and counting to 50 by 1s.

We wrote decade numbers to 50 on a record. (We counted by 10s to 50 and wrote them down.)

We played "Race to 100" with a partner. We took turns rolling a die and counting the dots. Students colored in the correct amount of squares to match the number they rolled.

We talked about "then and now". We looked at pictures of what the life was like in the '50s.

Here is how we sorted!

For brain break today we danced to the Hand Jive and listened to some music from the '50s.

For snack time we made coke floats. We predicted what we thought would happen to the ice cream when we poured the coke in! 

In writing, we brainstormed a list of things we would like to have 50 of. Students then wrote about what they would like to have! We focused on using finger spaces between words.

Mystery Reader

We had our first mystery reader this week! Camryn's GiGi came to read her favorite book- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. 

She brought 3 surprises with her!! 

1. She made caterpillars for each child!

2. She brought an apple snack! 

3. She created a paper for us to draw/write on! 

We loved having her visit and read to us! Thank you GiGi!!

Apples and leaves, oh my!

This week we had an apple/leaf theme and did a lot of activities in relation to Fall. September 26th was Johnny Appleseed's birthday! 

We started our week in science off reading some books about the 4 seasons. We sequenced the seasons and created 
"A Tree Through the Seasons."

We painted Fall leaves.

We did leaf rubbings.

We used magnifying glasses to explore leaves.

We also completed an apple investigation using apples we brought to school. 

In Writing, we focused on sounding out words by labeling. We listen for the beginning sound, the middle sounds, and the ending sound. In Kindergarten, students spell phonetically. The black writing is what they heard when we "stretched" the words out slowly. 

We labeled a Fall picture together, then students drew their own Fall pictures to label.

We labeled the parts of an apple together "stretching" out the words. Then I covered the chart up and they had to return to their seats and work to sound the words out by theirself. 

We also worked on writing sentences using spaces between words. We wrote about what we like to do in the Fall! 

In Reading, we worked on using pictures to tell a connected story and discussed how pictures are just as important as words. We talked about the similarities and differences of pictures in fiction and non-fiction books. We read When The Leaf Blew In and used the pictures to tell the beginning, middle, and end. 

We read There Was An Old lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves and used pictures to tell the story. 

We practiced segmenting words into syllables (word parts). We learned that there are several ways to find out how many syllables a word had. We can clap the word, say the word like a robot, or put our fingers beneath our chins and see how many times our chin drops when we say a word.

We brought in stuffed animals and favorite toys to practice segmenting. 

Here is an example of segmenting a word by clapping!

We practiced out poem of the week. We found the sight word- it, practiced tracking words- pointing to each word as we read it. 

Watch and listen to one of the students read the poem to us all by herself! 

In math, we worked with our apples we brought in. I asked the students how we could sort our apples and they said by color. I had them see if they could figure out how to do that by working together. I did not give any other direction than that. It was so interesting to here them talk it through. I heard things like "I don't think this apple should go here because it has yellow on it, we should put it in this group." Here is how they sorted the apples:

We then created a graph to show what we sorted. Once we graphed our apples we counted them. I asked students to look at our graph and asked them what they saw. One said read had more and green had less so we wrote those words. 

We read Ten Apples on Top and chose a number to count apples to. After we counted the apples we wrote the numbers on the apples to match what we counted. 

On Friday, we celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday! We made crockpot applesauce!

The recipe called for 9 apples, 1 cup of water, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, and I added a little lemon juice. 

It was delicious! 

We read a book about Johnny Appleseed and used pictures to tell the story. We learned his name was really John Chapman and he planted apple trees. 

We also made a pot hat for our head like Johnny!

Happy Fall!! :)