Kindergator Update 11.22.19


Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great week off with lots to be thankful for!

Reading: We continued our discussion on main idea and details while learning about Thanksgiving and turkeys. We learned about how the first Thanksgiving occurred, how it was different in the time of the Pilgrims and Native Americans and how it was almost lost until a woman named Sarah Hale convinced Abraham Lincoln to make it a national holiday. We hope your kiddos share off all they learned at the dinner table this week. Please remember to work on the Thanksgiving project that was sent home earlier in the week.

Math: We moved further into measurement working on measuring weight. We discussed vocabulary like heavy, light, weight and scales. We played with balance scales and even balanced bunnies.

Writing: We worked on exclamatory sentences and how they must be yelled. We made some exclamatory sentences that showed excitement, anger and fear! We played the “Punctuation Out of the Bag” game having to make sentences from the mystery punctuation you pick.

STEM: We completed our Day and Night Sky mural and it looks awesome! We made an i-motion video showing our creations, that I am hoping to post this weekend, but can seem to get off the i-pad just yet. Fingers crossed!

Vocabulary: exclamation mark, scale, weight, balance, Pilgrim

Big Things:
We now have all our students counting to 100 in class!!!!!! We had a class donut-hole celebration for this today at lunch.

Some of our kiddos are having trouble with the difference between asking and telling sentences. If you have the opportunity to practice the different types over the break we would gladly appreciate it.

Thank You To:
  • All the parents who came to Thanksgiving lunch. It was a full house!
  • Mae-Claire for bringing Marshmallow to school to play.
  • Kendal for an amazingly detailed Rhino drawing.
  • Elaina for a wonderful exclamatory sentence!
  • Daniel and Mila for bringing in multiple meaning words.
  • Mila for making a great magic wand today.
  • Duncan for awesome spelling.
  • Arielle for a great wicked witch of the west story.
  • Fiona, Gabe, Mae-Claire Eldabelle and Duncan for being word search experts.
  • Fiona, William Kendal, Hadley, Jacob, Eldabelle, Mae-Claire and Daniel for earning their STAR behavior.
  • Dillan for a great story about taking a hot dog cart to UGA (even if we would prefer it to be going to Auburn. Haha)
  • Ethan for a funny cowboy illustration








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