Kindergator Update 11.9.18
On my way into Tech tonight, I saw some students stop, thank
and shake hands with another young man in military uniform. It made me think
about our Veteran’s Day unit this week and how small kindnesses can often be a
big deal. Here are some of the big things our small kids worked on this week in
class.
Reading: We worked hard to understand the terms “main idea”
and “details” as we learned about the Bald Eagle, Veteran’s Day and the
branches of the military. We also began thinking about how an author adds
details to support their point. We wrote letters to soldier moms this week and
will work on soldier dads next.
Math: We wrapped up our unit on comparing numbers using
strategy and we will be comparing and contrasting strategies that work best for
the situation next week. We now have 17 out of our 18 students counting to 100
by 1s and our last one is very close so we will hopefully be celebrating 100%
soon. We continued our introduction to word problems and introduced some of our
groups to the “Draw and Tell” app that allows them to digitally represent a
word problems and orally explain their process. They had a blast with it.
Writing: We finished our second narratives today. We will
work on terrific titles next week, and publish these stories.
Science: We finished our unit on how an object's attributes
affect its motion. The students had to think about how the shape of an object,
its material and even weight affected its type of motion. It was fun to watch
them explore.
Vocabulary: soldier, sailor, veteran, military, talons, prey
BIG THINGS:
Be sure to check out the family Thanksgiving lunch days and
times on the school website and in last week’s BLOG post.
Please encourage “math drawings” instead of illustrations
when your child is doing a word problem in their journal.
We discovered this week that many reply emails are going
directly to our “junk” folder and not to our inbox. If you send an email to me
and I do not reply within 24 hours, please resend it or leave a little note
that you sent in your child’s agenda. I will be checking my junk now that I
know, but who knows what else might go wrong with technology this year. I am
just happy that this one issue cannot have been my fault!!!
Be on the lookout for the "My Thanksgiving Customs" project guidelines to come home next week. The project is not due until after Thanksgiving and there will be homework time allotted for it the week following Thanksgiving for it, but you may wish to take some pictures or do some pre-work for it on Thanksgiving Day itself.
Thank you to:
Grant who was voted our “Leader of the Month” for November.
Arnold who has become a puzzle expert.
Grant for making a giant list of multiple meaning words for
the class to consider.
Jackson for teaching the class about BOB phonics books and being our first to master counting by 1s, 5s, 10s and 2s.
Reese’s family for sending in CLOROX wipes. Mrs. Watson
works feverishly to keep the germs away.
Olivia for making napkin wrapped artwork for the class. It
was super sweet of her.
Reese for her great work “throwing the brain” in class.
Rayell, Olivia and Pennelope for working hard to master
their counting to 100.