Welcome Autumn!
What a glorious week of learning inside and outside.
During our Literacy time this week, Students continued to explore lines/curves, rhymes, retelling the Hungry Caterpillar story, and we began our Heggerty Program. Heggerty helps students practice rhyming, segmenting words, listening for beginning and ending sounds, and more.
In Math, we began to use dice for rolling and counting. We also explored attribute blocks and discussed what attributes the different shapes have. We played a game called Guess My Rule. Students had to choose an attribute (color, shape, thickness, number of sides or corners) and then display those shapes that shared those traits. Some of these rules were very tricky!
During ECO, we enjoyed our time in our new outdoor space!! A BIG thank you to my husband for sawing up some logs for 4 beautiful benches. We noticed the benches made eating snacks a little easier too, though students are becoming accustomed to getting creative and eating carefully out in the woods! They are already showing so much growth and adaptability! Kindergartners have shown a lot of interest in the critters living on the forest floor so this week we talked about the important ecosystem, the rotted log! A decomposing log is home to many organisms!
Lastly, we began our Civics Social Studies unit this week. This unit is all about recognizing important traits of being a citizen. Our focus will mainly be on what it means to be a good citizen in our classroom (being a kind friend, being a good listener, playing fairly & including others). Early on in the week, our class read Gloria and Officer Buckle, and students shared why they thought rules were necessary. We then created a list of rules that would be important in our classroom community. We noticed there were some patterns - caring for others, caring for ourselves, and caring for our environment -inside and out. Each student agreed with these and signed their name with a critter thumbprint.
Looking forward to another wonderful week ahead!🍂🍁🍂🍁
Notes:
9/27: School pictures (make up day 9/28)
9/28 Guest Teacher. Mrs. Poor will be at a professional development day.
9/29: Zucchini Race, 1:50pm
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