iPad work: Mr. Bianchi taught us about "coding", using the app The Foos. Children practiced programming a game.
This is one of my favorite books to read preceding a self portrait lesson.
This is a BIG important idea!
Kindergarten started a new weather unit in Science. We showed these weather photo cards to discuss what weather might be happening. The goal was to elicit weather vocabulary by asking what weather clues we saw in the images.
"Warm"
"Sunny", "snowy","cold"
"Warm", "mild"
"Windy"
We recorded all he weather vocabulary we identified...
...and
Science notebook observations.
Them activity in workboard.
December calendar work.
Number Racks are an important math tool.
Pattern block work in math work stations.
Rainbow writing sight words in work board.
Writing in the writing station of workboard. Students have lots of strategies and tools to write words and sentences. Our word wall is filling up and we have learned most of the letter sounds. Children have also had explicit instruction on how to add illustrations to their writing in order to convey messages. There are several writing prompts and blank writing paper available in the writing center for children to choose from. It's really exciting to see them write and illustrate so independently!
Filling in tens frames. Note this student using the number line as a resource to help identify and write numerals.
Observing today's weather.
Recording weather observations in science journals.
FUNdations
Using the smart board to have some alphabet fun!
Representing teen numbers.
FUNdations writing practice of z and q.
FUNdations letter tiles.
Putting letters into alphabet order.
We continued on in our weather unit this week by leaning about : TEMPERATURE.
We discussed what a thermometer is and talked about the above model...
...then compared it to this thermometer. It will hang in our window for us to observe everyday and monitor the temperature.
Science journal work: recording th core science idea for today's lesson..."a thermometer is a tool that measures temperature".
