Literacy lab, Money & Green Lemonade!

This was another BUSY week for us in Kindergarten! We started Literacy Lab and working on activities to practice recognizing and making our names as well as making letters. In one of our centers we glued cereal onto our names to help practice saying the letters in our names as we did so.

Hayden making the letter 'T' and Destiny making the letter 'R' with pipe cleaners.

 

Tracing their names and then making the letters with Wikki Stix.

We have been working very hard to complete our alphabet cards for our word wall which are made by the children. First we listen to a song about the letter and try to think about what words begin with that letter and we practice drawing it in the air. Then we make a list of the words that begin with that letter and then the students choose which word they would like to draw. Once we are finished we chose one drawing of each word to go on our card for our word wall. The pictures as well as the letters on our cards are all done by the children and they have been noticing that their pictures are being used. We have heard them say, "Hey, I made that picture or I wrote that letter!"

Sharing our treasure blocks has also been a big part of our days as well. It has been a great way for us to learn about our friends, how to spell their names, and how to draw illustrations with appropriate colors and details.

We also added something new to our calendar time. For everyday we are in school we added a paperclip and a penny and we will continue to do this for everyday we are in school. We talked about how a penny is worth one cent, a nickel is worth 5 and a dime is worth 10. Once we got to 10 days of school we were able to 'go to the bank' to cash our 5 pennies in for a nickel and 10 pennies for a dime. This is still a hard concept but we will continue to work on it and it will get easier for them!

Practicing our sight words in fun and interactive ways!

Our friends love the library area and are very interested in reading books to each other. I love to see this enthusiasm!

We sang Happy Birthday to Sebastian in sign language and we thanks him for sharing a birthday treat with us.

On Friday we were invited back down to Mrs. Atkin's class to join in being scientists and participate in a fun experiment with colors. We have been learning the color songs for the colors red, yellow, blue and now green. Each student received a glass of yellow lemonade and a blue ice cube. Once we discussed and tried to predict what would happen when we dropped our ice cube into our lemonade we observed to see what color we made! The children loved this experiment and really enjoyed spending our afternoon with Mrs. Atkin's class! It was a nice way to cool down from the muggy weather we had at the end of the week!

 We talked about how when you are celebrating something you 'cheers' each other and the children had fun practicing with their friends.