Although we had a short week, there was still a lot of
awesome learning that took place in our classroom! I am so proud of your little ones!
In Fundations this week, the children were introduced to two new letters- c and o. We also spent some time reading sentences. I wrote the following sentence on sentence frames- Tommy has a pet dog. We discussed the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and the period at the end.
Then I changed the sentence by replacing Tommy with one of the children's names and asked a volunteer to erase the word that needed to be changed. We then wrote the new sentence and read it chorally as a class, pointing to the words as we read them.
In Math, the children were introduced to repeating and growing patterns. The children watched as I placed triangle pattern blocks in a repeating pattern on the board. Then, I asked the children what will come next and why. They all shouted out in excitement "Pointy side down!" Then I began another pattern with squares. The children explained that this type of pattern looks like stairs. They were able to explain why the first pattern was a repeating pattern and why the second pattern was a growing pattern. Then we practiced some more with some Fall themed patterns! I included the file below! Feel free to practice these tricky patterns with your child:)
fallpatternspowerpoint_pdf.pdf |
• Named the shape and drew the shape in the air with large arm motions.
•Identified if it had straight sides or curved sides.
• Described the shape (number of sides, corners) and compared the length of sides.
• Sorted triangles/non-triangles.
I also taught the children two new games this week- Match up with Dot Cards and Top-It with Dot Cards.
Match up With Dot Cards:
• The goal of the game is to turn over two cards (a pair) that have an equal number of dots.
Before we began playing, I showed the kiddos that the deck holds more than one card for each number. I explained that although the cards don't look exactly the same, they each have the same number of dots. The children LOVED this game and were so excited when they found a match!
• Players turn over their top cards, and then say and compare the number of dots on the two cards.
• The player whose card has more dots (a greater number) takes both cards.
• If the cards have an equal number of dots (the same number), both players turn over another card and the player with the greater number of dots takes all four cards.
• Play continues until one partner has all the cards or until time runs out.
The next day, we did the very same using a shorter book as the standard (Standard Book 2). Take a look at our results below :)
The next day, the children practiced measuring and counting the length of the larger blocks using the one inch cubes. They did a fantastic job with this :)
Half Day Schedule:
AM Kindergarten: 8:20-11:00
PM Kindergarten: 10:00-12:30
Warm Regards,
Mrs. Nork