Hello everyone! I hope you all have been enjoying the beautiful weather this weekend! Here is a recap of the past week in Kindergarten:
On Monday, students got to have their pajama day in celebration of their good behavior! We also used this day as an opportunity to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos! Students learned about the holiday in the morning, and even colored their own sugar skulls. Below I linked the two informational videos we watched to help inform us about the holiday. Then in the afternoon, we got together with pre-school and watched the movie Coco together! Students had so much fun learning some new Spanish words during the movie and enjoying some popcorn. Such a fun day!
Jeremiah relaxing during the movie!
https://wqed.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ket-earlychild-art14/day-of-the-dead/
After having Tuesday off, students came back ready to have a great week!
In Math, we finished up Chapter 5 and are now working on 2D shapes, learning number words, and memorizing numbers 11-20. Students have been doing puzzles and building activities to help with their counting. They also learned how to do rainbow writing, to practice familiarizing themselves with number words one, two, and three. On Thursday, they got to practice some 2D shape recognition and sorting review using different colors and sizes of shapes. They had a great time!
In Science this week students learned more about life cycles of different kinds of animals! We learned that many animals lay eggs (just like frogs can) and that when the animals hatch they look different from when they are adults! On the right is a photo of students pretending they are in an egg of their own! We also read the story And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, the true story about the two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who raise a baby penguin together. Not only is this a sweet story, but it also details the process of an egg being taken care of by it’s parents before and after it hatches!
Students have been getting very creative during their Free Play, even creating masks!
In Spanish, we are still working on colors! We reviewed the colors we had previously learned by labeling things around the classroom with those colors. Then we played I Spy with the new colors we learned from our Spanish color song! We now know red, blue, yellow, green, purple, black, brown, and white in Spanish!
This week we worked on the letters Dd, Hh, Kk, and Ll. Students have been impressed with their own abilities to come up with so many words for each letter! They even have been noticing the sounds of the certain letters at the ends of words too! We have been watching and listening to letters songs by ABC Mouse and Have Fun Teaching on Youtube to help give students ideas for words that start with the letter they are working on. Their sight words this week were number words, which was helpful in connecting the two subjects.
Below I linked some other videos we used in our classroom this week. We did some more partner yoga and watched a video with facts about turkeys as we started learning about Thanksgiving. We will continue this next week. While doing our black poster painting this week, we watched two videos for stories that we have in our classroom library. One of them is a read aloud of the book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, and the other is a short film based on the book Hair Love by Matthew Cherry.
Next week we have Friday off so that teachers can have Professional Development. This week the first quarter ends, and Kindergarten will be getting a new student on Wednesday! We are very excited! I will be sending out a Google Form this week to plan out times for our virtual Parent-Teacher conferences, which will be on Thursday, November 19th. If you have any questions about anything at all, please don’t hesitate to let me know!
Love,
Ms. V 🙂