Hello Families,
Happy 2022 and welcome back to school! It was so exciting to see everyone back after an extended winter break. We've had a wonderful week reconnecting with each other, and our space.
This week, students were introduced to some new work choices in the classroom:
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| Creative, collaborative exploration. |
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| Developing our understanding of light and shadow. |
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| Applying understanding of shape and pattern. |
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| Developing communication through cooperative play and problem solving. |
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| One BIG idea! |
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| Ordering from tallest to shortest using matryoshka snowmen. |
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| Creating sets of objects to match numerals. Organizing by twos to develop sense of odd and even. |
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| We love puzzles and get excited when there are new ones, and bigger ones to solve! |
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| Write the Room: Winter Vocabulary |
We revisited patterns and subitizing through some different snowmen activities:
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| Examples and Non-Examples: Snowmen Patterns |
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| Can your child explain the reasoning why each pattern is an example or non-example? |
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| Roll-a-Snowman Have your child teach you this game at home. |
Learned a new rhyme, to the tune of, "I'm a Little Teapot":
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| We developed actions to connect to each verse, as well as identified rhyming words, and predicted an ending. |
And did a step-by-step drawing of a "pup":
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| The teacher illustrates each step of the drawing on the SMARTboard. Students match each step in their sketchbooks, step-by-step, developing spatial awareness, and practicing different lines. |
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| We are learning about labels for our work. Together, we stretch out the target word, identifying how many sounds it has. Counting sounds is an important, foundational literacy skill. We then match the sounds to letters. |
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| Students then label their own drawing, focusing on proper letter formation. |
Reminders:
- Friday, January 21st: PM Kindergarten
- Friday, January 28th: AM Kindergarten
- Monday, January 31st: PD Day
- Monday, January 31st: PD Day
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Ms. Thomas
