Our First Full Week

We made it through our first five day week and what a busy week it was!  Kindergartners began the week finishing up Open House projects and deciding what they wanted to share with their families.  Our classroom was bursting with pride as students displayed their work around the room.  Thanks to ALL of our families who came back to school for Open House Wednesday night! Here are some shots of students with their ME projects.

Clara and Lucas R.

Lucas L. and Samantha

Lia and Henry

Alice and Summit

Sadie and Rose

Charlie and Lucy

Josh and Joe

Ayler and Madison

Ready for Open House!

Did you hear about the library?  Our class had our first visit this week.  Everyone got to choose a book.  Books can be kept at home for up to a week but can be brought back to school sooner.  Your child's book should travel back and forth to school in the yellow book bag students received Thursday.  In kindergarten, students may go to the library any day (or everyday) during our learning centers.   This month we will be teaching students how to use the library independently.  Once kindergartners get the hang of how to use the library passes and the book keys in the library, they will be able to go to the library with a buddy...no teacher!  It's pretty fun to see them skip down the hall the first time they are aloud to go with just a friend!

Mrs. Bohlman reads our class a story in the library.

The first time students go to the library they choose books from the library tables.

Lia, Madison and Clara find the perfect books.

Ayler and Josh enjoy reading some non-fiction books.

Charlie finds a quiet spot in the library to enjoy his book.

This week we were introduced to two new sight words, see and I.  Kindergartners were so excited to get their first two books in their book boxes, I See and I See Colors.  We built our own sentences using I and see and counted the number of words in a sentence.  We also learned that "dots" at the end of  sentences are called periods.

In kindergarten, you point to each word as you read.   Clara demonstrates this in her I See book.

Kindergartners worked in stations on Friday morning. Everyone had a chance to rotate through a literacy, math and technology station.  In math, we played a fun game called Waggles.  The concept of the game wasn't too hard but the focus of our curriculum right now continues to be on building a classroom community.  Student are learning how to work cooperatively and independently.  Kindergartners are learning to trust and help each other!

Ayler and Summit work together during a math game.

Lucas R. and Henry have fun with the dice.

Lia and Samantha also work together on a math game.

At the technology station, kindergartners were introduced to our six classroom iPads.  Our goal was to make sure that everyone was comfortable using an iPad.  This Tuesday, students will take the STAR assessment on the iPad.

The literacy and math apps were a big hit.

Our afternoons are full of activities that are meant to build and strengthen our classroom community.  Learning centers provide wonderful opportunities for just that!  

It may look like they are playing but they are busy learning about how to work together!

The week ahead...will be just as busy and exciting.  We will finish up our baseline assessments on students, begin work in our math workbooks and begin learning about fall.  We will hold off on our fall scavenger hunt until we've had a few frosts and we get the okay to go into the woods.