Whirlwind of a Week!

Wow! This has been a whirlwind of a couple weeks in Kindergarten! I am so excited for you to follow us along and see all the adventures we have in our classroom! We frequently do hands-on activities in the classroom in which students may not tell you about. This is a great way for you to stay connected and talk with your child about what is happening in the classroom! In our centers, we have been working hard on staying on task within our centers and cleaning up when it is time to move to our next center. Soon, I will begin meeting with small groups of students. In these small groups, we will work on letter identification and letter sounds, phonemic awareness skills and for those that are ready, guided reading. Below are a few pictures of what we have been working on in our centers!

Kindergartners worked on stringing the alphabet using letter beads and pipe cleaners. This is a great fine motor task as well!

This was one of our FAVORITE centers of the week! It's called "Pokey Pins". Students use a large push pin to poke holes through numbers. Then, students had to punch the corresponding circles on their ten frame. They thought this was awesome! (It also helped that we worked on holding our push pins with our "owl eye"...more on that later!)

Kindergartners are working hard in the writing center on using their sight words to write sentences. This week, we read the book Superhero ABCs. Students had to draw a picture and write about their favorite superhero! Check out this awesome finger spacing too!

We used play-doh and play-doh mats to recreate numbers and then roll play-doh balls to match the number on our mats. This helped strengthen our one-to-one correspondence skills! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed a sneak peek into our classroom!

We LOVE Centers!

While Mrs. Kroeger has been working with students one-on-one this week, Kindergartners have been hard at work in their math and literacy centers.  Here are some of the activities we are working on!

Simple Sums:  Students played with a partner.  Each partner rolled two dice, added the numbers together and recorded their answers on their "Ssssimple Sums" board.  The first one to fill their snake won the game! 

Simple Sums

Leaf Patterns:  Kindergartners created a variety of patterns using different colored leaves.  They then needed to label their pattern:  AB, ABC, ABB, AAB.

 

Before, After, Between:  We have been working hard on developing our number sense.  Kindergartners played this game in a group of four.  Each player receives two cards.  The first player draws a 3rd card and decides if that card "fits" between the first two.  For instance, if a student has a 3 and a 8 and draws a 5, this number fits between.  They would then record this set of numbers on their paper, keep the 3 cards and then draw two new cards.  The game continued until no more cards were left!

 Stamping Fun:  Students stamped the letters that are in their name and not in their name.  This was one of our favorite centers (and the messiest!)