Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Reminders
                         
MLK’s birthday is being recognized Monday January 16th.  We will not have school.
100th Day of School
The 100th day of school is a big deal around the kindergarten hall.  It is scheduled to fall on Tuesday January 24th if we have no missed school between now and then for snow.  If they are allowed to do so, it sure is fun to wear something with 100 on it.  They might paint a shirt or put 100 stickers on a shirt.  They can make a necklace with 100 beads on it.  Once again, nothing fancy, just something fun to do with counting.  I am also asking that each child bring in a small container or baggie with 100 of something they collected and counted.  It can be as simple as dry cereal.  Do not buy anything, just let them go around the house and suggest something that they could count in to ten groups of ten.    We have been practicing skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s in preparation for this big day.  We have some exciting things planned to count and do all day. 
Workshops
1.      Math/Literacy-Three Bears Measurement- The children explored using cubes and tape measures to measure characters and props from the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Then they recorded their answers.
2.      Literacy- Noun Search and sort- Children searched through magazines for pictures of nouns and sorted them according to whether the picture was a person place or a thing. 
3.      Writing Workshop- We wrote about if we were members of royalty.  What would we be like?  How would we treat others?  What would our rules be?
4.      Math/Literacy- Number words- The children completed a number word numeral match game and then practiced writing number words after they counted object to tell how many. 
5.      Computer/literacy/math- ipads- children used the ipads to practice basic skills. 
Spelling Words Group 1, 2, 3
an, can, pan, man, ran, Dan
Group 4
roast, boast, most, toast, thought, ought, bought

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