It has been a while since I have blogged and lots has been going on! Dr. Seuss, St. Patrick's Day, crazy leprechauns and Spring!
I would like to share a few things that went on I'm my classroom since last time I posted.
1. Dr. Seuss Week - We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday school wide all week! One of the activities I love doing is making these gigantic Dr. Seuss'. My kiddos use tracers for the hat, bow and the two parts of the cat's head. The rest they free cut.
I love letting my kids use tracers! Projects take on a life of their own and they tend not to look like cookie cutter projects!
Once they traced and cut out the hat, they drew on the stripes and then came over to the
table to paint them.
While they waited for the stripes to dry, they finished cutting and assembling the rest.
Here is a picture of one of the kids putting the finishing touches on hers! I let them choose what color they want to make their bow and then they paint their hat to match.
These turned out so well, we displayed them out in the hall for all to see!
2. Reading - In my last post, I talked about finishing up on our informational text unit in reading.
In our district, we are required to use a reading journal with our kids. We use them mostly as a respond to reading notebook. I wanted to have my kids share their opinion of what they prefer to read and why. I modeled what it might look like and then sent them off to write on their own.
"I like to read fiction books because they are funny to read" Love the thought bubble in her picture!
"I like to read informational books because I can learn new things."
3. Math - We did a few activities in math with 2D and 3D shapes. As a culminating activity we sorted our snack.
I first gave my students a sheet of paper that they had to fold in half and then draw their lines and put on their headers. Once they had this done, they got their baggie of items to sort under each category.
This child is in the process of sorting his shapes.
Once they sorted under the correct category, they had the teacher or another student who had their paper checked already, go over their sort and make any corrections.
Next, I had them sort them under the category according to shape, group them and label them.
Finally, the best part, they ate their shapes!
As they worked, I was able to walk around and informally assess their understanding of 2 and 3D shapes as well as the names of those shapes.
4. Science - Paper! We have been learning all about paper the last couple of weeks. This is one of our required science units in our district. I am fortunate enough to have a child whose parent works for one of our local paper companies. He volunteered his services to come in and show the kids how to make paper as well as review the paper making process that we learned in the classroom.
Each student got to make a piece of paper to take home. They had a blast!
The kiddos also went home with a ream of construction paper and a baggie of goodies (oatmeal, microwave popcorn, Reeses peanut butter cups and Starbursts). Each of these goodies is package in the paper that the company makes!
Whew! Sorry for being long-winded!
I promise to do a better job of blogging in the future! My goal is to try and blog at least once a week to share things that are going on in the land of Kindergarten!
Two more weeks and we will be on Spring break! Hope you all have a great week!
You've been busy! Your students are very lucky to have you!
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