Monday, September 28

Brrr! We had lots of discussion today about the changing seasons! Today focuses on colors and color words at our morning meeting. We graphed our favorite colors and compared the numbers. Blue was the most favorite in the AM and pink was the most favorite in the PM. We did a fun color song/game. We also did an art activity when we created petals for our class color flowers. Students glued many items onto a large flower petal. We will use our petals to reinforce our knowledge of primary and secondary colors. We worked on matching lower case/ upper case letters and reading the word "the". We had phy ed with Mr. Westling. You'll have to ask the kindergarteners what they did with the velcro flags. We read Max's ABC Day. The story protrayed Max's day from breakfast, through school, home for supper, and being tucked into bed. Each page depicted one scene from his day and focused on an alphabet letter and something in the picture that started with that letter. Students looked for lots of picture clues to tell the story (there wasn't text with the pictures.) Kindergarteners are building their confidence and enjoyment of reading through the use of picture clues to tell the story. In this way, they are able to "read" many books on their own. When we study our calendar each day, we count the days of school with tally marks. Today was the fifteenth day of school. This meant drawing a straight across (horizontal) line through our third tally. The students didn't need prompting this time. They already knew what to do to show that group of five. We started having table leaders today that are in charge of keeping their table clean throughout the day. They even wash up with sponges after snack. We had a new friend join our afternoon class. I was so proud of all my students. They welcomed our new friend and were very helpful and kind. I could tell that our new friend already felt comfortable playing and visiting with everyone. Thank you Kindergarteners!!!