We had another busy week in Kindergarten! We worked more on Dr. Seuss inspired activities and writing, finished the book Stuart Little so we watched the movie, had our high schoolers come to visit and much more. Take a look below to see more details!
Monday we had our spring picture day! When the pictures come in they will be sent home, you can choose which ones you want to keep, pay for them, and send the rest back in the package.
In literacy lab, groups that worked with me practiced reading a story called "Dan Gets Dressed". We worked on retelling the story, discussing our favorite part, characters, setting and making a connection to the text. You can be practicing these skills after you read stories with your children at home as well. Mrs. Arnold practiced reading and writing sentences with the students.
In the listening area, the students listened to the story, "Fox in Socks", Mrs. Roland practiced various decoding skills with her groups, and Mrs. Boyd worked on making sight words.
One day this week, I had a day where I was working with the students on updating their data folders in order for me to complete their report cards. While I was doing that, Mrs. Rawlins was working with the students on doing a directed drawing for The Cat in the Hat. She went through step by step directions on how to draw him and the students had to follow directions. You can see below the step by step instructions as well as Mrs. Rawlins completed example Cat in the Hat. The students did a great job following directions and their completed drawings are up in the hallway for you to see when you come for conferences!
On Tuesday, the high schoolers came to visit for our last Pirates & Peeps visit of the year. They worked with the students during our choice time to explore in various areas around the classroom. The students really enjoyed working with them throughout the year!
In writing, the students created a character to fall asleep like in the book, "The Sleep Book". It could be made up or a real character and the students had to write what the kind of creature was, how many feet it has, how many arms it has, and what kind of neck it has. Gabriel created a giraffe with 4 feet, 0 arms, and a giraffe neck. Mila created a box with 5 feet, 4 arms, and a person neck.
We also discussed what they would do if they found the last truffula tree (like in the story The Lorax). Alexander said that he would make more and Aicha said that she would take care of it, make more because she likes Truffula trees, and get more.
We also worked on making a class book based on Green Eggs and Ham. We came up with some rhyming words as a class and I wrote them on the board for the students to use as a reference if they needed to. They came up with some creative ideas of things they might eat instead and their illustrations turned out awesome!
On Friday the students shared their writing with their preschool reading buddies.
The lunch department has given all of the students their student ID numbers with a keypad in order for them to practice and memorize their numbers. In a couple weeks, they will begin putting their numbers in when they go through the lunch line in order to practice for first grade.
We finished the book Stuart Little so we watched the movie. The movie Stuart Little 2 goes along with the story line of the book better so we watched the second one. I also found a book about a sailing adventure that Stuart goes on that we read. We also started a book that goes along with the movie and even has pictures from the book that we are currently reading together.
We continued working on our Dr. Suess inspired workstations. Including another one that I added to look like Truffula trees (on the left) where the students had to put the matching number of beads that the tree has on it.
Thanks for checking in. Have a great week!
Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant
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