Sept. 24

Today we read the nursery Rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". After reading it and acting it out, we found the rhyming words. We also used the rhyme to talk about beginning sounds in some of the words. We read the story "If You Give a Moose a Muffin." After reading it, we retold the story in our own words sometimes using picture clues to help us remember. We drew self portraits for our kindergarten scrapbook. We will do this again in January and in May. We helped to paint a gigantic bus that will hang in our hallway. We each made a face to look out the window. We shared a bus rule that will hang above our bus to remind everyone of all of the bus rules we learned this year. In math, we practiced counting backwards and number writing. We used a number line, a game piece and a dice as our math tools. We ended the day with library.

Sept. 22, 2010

Today we read the story "Hands Are Not For Hitting". We then brainstormed lots of things we can do with our hands that are fun. We had lots of ideas including baking, coloring, building, going on monkey bars, sharing, reading, riding bike...After we shared our ideas, we each made a poster with our ideas written on the poster and one of our hands traced and decorated on the front. These hand posters will be displayed on our lockers. We introduced the letter Pp today. We learned it in sign language, we did a Pp hunt, we practiced writing Pps and we read a Pp story called Pigs Pack a Picnic. In gym, we played Blob tag and soccer. We practiced counting by ones, by fives and by tens. We traced numbers while counting by ones. We circled the numbers in red as we counted by fives and we traced in green as we counted by tens. We added bus rule 7 and 8 to our bus safety book. Rule 7 is "I will not throw things on the bus." Rule 8 is "I will cross safely in front of the bus." We had another great day!

Sept. 21, 2010

Today we read the story "If You Take a Mouse to School". Then each studnet drew a picture of what the mouse would do if he came to our classroom. We talked about the letter Ff today. In math, we practiced writing numbers 1 to 20. Then we used that game board to play "Race to 20". The students brought their game boards home to play at home. We learned bus rule number 5 and 6. Rule 5 is talking quietly on the bus and rule 6 is do not put hands or head out of the bus window. We played outside at the end of the day.

Sept. 20, 2010

Today our class was surprised to have a new student join our class. Ask your child who joined our class. Today we read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". It is a favorite that most kids are familar with. After reading it, we retold the story together. Then the kids drew something that happened in the story. We shared our ideas with our elbow partners. We read the story "Little Bears" together as our shared reading. We used picture clues to figure out unknown words. Our new letter was Ss. We went on a Ss hunt. In math, we played "Roll the Number 2". We rolled 2 dice, counted the dots and then practiced writing the number. We talked about bus rules 3 and 4. They are keep the aisle clear and stay seated. In gym, the kids played "blob tag". They said it was really fun. Playtime, indoor recess, lunch and rest time are brought up daily as fun parts of our day!

Math partner games

Math Games We play lots of math games to reinforce math skills. Sometimes we play with partners and sometimes we play the game independently. This game is called "Race to Trace". This game helps with number writing and counting.

We like playtime too!

We love recess!

Sept. 17, 2010

Today we learned about the letter Mm. The kids also got their first "homework" to do this weekend. Your child should have a zipper pouch in his/her folder. Please follow the directions inside. Have fun! Today we had music and library. We read a story called "Seals on the Bus" We sang a song called "Animals on the Bus". We made our own animals on the bus art project. We played a math game called "roll the number". The directions were to roll the dice, count the dots, and write the number. Aiden brought 2 tree frogs and a small lizard in a cage for us to check out.

Sept. 16, 2010

Ms. Petersmeyer and Ms. Nelson came into our room to talk about school rules, spreading kindness and Rocket Pride. Part of Rocket Pride is taking care of our school and keeping it clean. They also read a story about filling up people's buckets. Ask your child if he/she filled up someone's bucket today. We practiced counting back from 10 in math. We also practiced writing our numbers from 10 to 0. We practiced making the letter Tt. We listened to a story called "My Friends". Then we drew a picture of our favorite part and we drew a picture of something it reminded us of in our own lives. We had a great day!

Sept. 15, 2010

Today we had an assembly in the gym focused on kindness. We sang songs and laughed as we learned about being kind. We are going to be spreading kindness in our school. We worked on patterns in math. We went on a Tt hunt! We worked on our bus safety book.

Sept. 14, 2010

Today we had music in the storybook room with Mr. Eliason. We practiced bus safety with Mrs Myers. We practiced evacuating the bus out of the back door. We used our crayons to measure things even ourselves and our friends. We introduced the letter Aa. We went on an Aa hunt around our classroom. We had a very fun day!

Day 3 of School

We had another fun day in kindergarten. We read "I Love School". We made posters after reading the story. We drew self portraits and added the words "I Love School" to our posters along with our names. We wrote the capital letter ABCs. We went to art with Mrs. Weber. The kindergarten students said their favorite part of the day was...lunch, outside, monkey bars, playground, art and everything! We also took our first group picture on the playground which I hope to have posted soon.

First Day of School-September 7, 2010

We had a wonderful first day of school! We had fun learning about our kindergarten day. We sang songs, read books, colored, played inside and outside. We went to music with Mr. Eliason. We read a book called "Ms. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten." Then we made our own book called "Mrs. Milow's Class Gets Ready for Kindergarten." At the end of the day I asked all of the kids what they liked about kindergarten and this is what they said...
*Miss Bindergarten book
*Making patterns with chains in math
*playing on the playground
*drawing
*using connecting blocks to make patterns
*everything
*using our tool boxes (crayons, pencils)
*meeting new friends
*playing