The big news for this week was our planning and rehearsing a play for our special friends in kindergarten, based on the book, Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes. After listening to the book read aloud, the children wrote their opinions of the story and wrote down their ideas about how to make this story come alive for their JK/SK friends. They will perform their play for Mr. Grundy's JK/SK class next Monday.
In math, the students finished the unit on Number Sense by practicing rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. The class reviewed the concepts of the unit and had a test on this information on Thursday. On Friday, we started our new math unit on linear measurement.
Throughout the week, all the children have been doing their part to help out on our class project to count the number of beads in the bag that Ms. R has been storing for years. Each child counts out 100 beads and then strings them onto plastic cord. So far, we have counted over 2,000 beads!
In writing, the students learned about adjectives and how, if they are removed, the sentence still makes sense. However, adding adjectives adds so much detail to the sentences in a story and makes it much more interesting to read.
We finished reading aloud the chapter book, My Father's Dragon and the students wrote about the part he/she liked the best, what they predicted happened when the characters got home and suggested an alternate title. Of course, they also had to explain why...
The class began to learn how to write lower case letters in cursive writing. We reviewed why learning this is important. One needs to be able to read cursive writing, writing in cursive is faster and cursive is used for writing one's signature. This week, the children learned the letters, a, d, g and c.
In science, the students formally started the unit on structures. The class listed the types of structures that are found in nature (ex. caves), made by animals (ex. snail shells) and made by humans (ex. buildings). The children read aloud a non-fiction story that listed the types of materials that humans use to make structures strong and stable.
The children each created a large portfolio, displaying his/her names and designs. These portfolios will be used to store the finished work of the students and looked at several times during the year so that the students can each track their progress in the various subjects.
At the end of the week, the students began a project making pillows. So far, the students learned how to tie dye fabric by folding, twisting and wrapping the white fabric with clothespins and elastics then soaking the "ball" in orange dye. Doing this to the fabric created wonderful patterns of white and orange.
Books read aloud this week:
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (finished)
Give Me Back My Dad by Robert Munsch
Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
The Cobbler's Holiday or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
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