Apples, apples and apples!

Kindergarteners are learning all about apples this week!  We began today by reading Apples A to Z by Margaret McNamara.  This was a great ABC book that helped us learn more about apples.  We created a brace map and jotted down some information we learned from the book as well information we already knew!

In Math, we reviewed our numbers 1-5 and played a math bingo game. Students' bingo cards had boxes of objects and when I called a number, they had to use one-to-one correspondence to color the correct box.  The rest of this week we will be working on numbers 6-10.  For the first quarter, Kindergartners are expected to use one-to-one correspondence up to 10 and identify and write numbers 1-10 correctly.  We will also be working on composing and decomposing these numbers, although mastery of this skill is not required until later this year.

Today I also asked each student to count as high as they could.  Our goal for the first quarter is to count to 21. I am so pleased that many students can do thus already!  I often find that 13 and 15 are the tricky numbers and ones most often missed. Pease practice this skill at home daily!  Below is a short video we often watch to help us count. 

Counting Super Hero

Apples, apples, apples!

Wow!  We have spent the last week learning all about apples!  We have had so much fun.  We celebrated apple day last week by making patterns with apples, sorting and categorizing our apples by color, creating a graph based on sorting and categorizing, made patterns with our apples, and the best part of all....tasting our apples!  We tasted both red, yellow and green apples and then wrote about what color we liked the best.

 

 

We had a great time on our field trip to Kuiper's Apple Farm!  We learned so much more information.  Thank you to our parent volunteers!

Upcoming Week in Kindergarten!

We are off and moving in Kindergarten!  Upcoming this week will be...
       Letter of the Week:  Aa
       Sight Words:  like and see (have your child cut out his/her flashcards and practice nightly!)
       Math:  Shapes, Numbers 5 and 6
       Science:  Apples (parts of a plant)...in preparation for our upcoming field trip to Kuiper's Apple Farm!  Make sure to get your permission slips returned.  All parents who would like to chaperone are invited to!