This week was RED RIBBON WEEK. We had short lessons each day reviewing how to be healthy and happy and how to say No! to anything that may harm our body! Each student pledged to live a happy, healthy life!
This week we met some friends that help us organize what we read. We first met VENN DIAGRAM. Venn Diagram helps us to organize the differences and similarities of two things (i.e. between a tadpole and an adult frog). The picture is of the students’ responses, I did not add a single response! Students know that we put differences on the outside and similarities on the inside. We use movements with our hands to help us remember.
We also introduced a T chart and how that can help us organize information and compare.
Writer’s Workshop, students are working away. I am so proud of the students. They really have the knowledge now and a very solid foundation of writing sentences. They know that each sentence starts with a capital letter, they we write from left to right, that we create space between words, include the “who” and the “what”, and always ends in a period or exclamation point. We will continue practicing each day on improving, but the knowledge is there, it’s just putting it to practice.
We did a really fun lesson this week on reading fluently. Part of reading fluently is knowing what to do when you get to punctuation. This week we focused on what readers do when they see a period and an exclamation point. We did a sentence walk around the room. Taped to the floor were the sentences: “I see a dog. The dog ran home. I love dogs!” We practiced walking fluently (smoothly and natural, just like reading should be!) and as we read the sentences when we came to a period, we put or hands up (like we were saying HALT with our hands) and paused. When we read the sentence “I love dogs!” we would say it with super duper excitement and when we got to the exclamation point we would jump with our hands up in the air.
In Math we have still been working on our addition skills and just started to introduce subtraction. I took two videos of the students doing Math. They are picking it up so quickly. There is a couple short math s I like to show in the morning. I try to always be ready for the students even before the school day so they don’t have to sit in the hallway. If they are in the building, I would rather have them in the classroom watching a fun video or doing a quick phonics or math game. I will attach both videos. The videos are working though. Before I started teaching the subtraction lesson, I asked the students if they knew what subtraction meant and most of them said, “It means to take away.” So I asked, “How did you know that?” They said, “From the video.” and pointed to the SMART board. Cool!
We also had a fun activity to work on mastering the common core standard: “describes positions of objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, next to, and behind. We played a Simon says kind of game ad used “friends” (paper plates with faces drawn on them) to help us learn where above, below, in front of, etc…..we rotated the paper plate around our body to show the correct position. It was really fun, students request to play that game now. J Needless to say, they met the standard quickly!
I am so excited for next week. Our Halloween Party is going to be awesome. We are going to have centers that focus on Math and Science. It will be great to have so many parents in the classroom that day as well. It makes it an extra special day for your son or daughter. J
Have a great weekend! I’m off to run a 5K, perfect way to end Red Ribbon Week.
Mrs. Kressin
Here's the other Math video we use in the morning (suggested by one of my fellow Kindergarten teachers! Her class loves it, so we had to try it!):
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