Hello!

In Kindergarten today:

We continued on the theme of weather and how it affects people and the environment. After reading ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’, we discussed different weather patterns and terms by brainstorming words that are associated with the general term, ‘weather’. Our most popular word was ‘tornado’ so we dove a little more into this topic.

“When there’s a tornado, you have to go to the basement!”

I questioned the group by saying, “I don’t have a basement at my home. What would I do?”

This sparked different suggestions like going into a bathroom or a closet!

During our journal time, children used their kid spelling to complete their journals!

This morning, Addi and Elliott worked on a rainbow themed pattern using the unifix cubes. They started adding different colors together. For example, “If we took the red and green cubes together, how many do we have?”

Once Addi started on the second unifix pattern, Elliott made a comment that went a little something like this: “This looks like the Eiffel Tower!”

Cue emergent literacy opportunity.

Once we started talking about the Eiffel Tower, friends gathered around so we could look up some information about this structure. Daniel let us know that he gets to go to Paris over the summer! A few things we found out:

-It was completed in 1889. (we discussed how far back that was!)

-It’s as tall as an 81 story building.

-The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second floors.

We looked up pictures and found an informational video that showed us different views of the tower. We saw pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night and during the day. Friends especially liked how it lit up at night!

The computer was used to find a picture of the Eiffel Tower so that friends could come to the table and sketch it if they so chose.

We used great detail and asked questions pertaining to the tower such as what shapes we saw within the tower.

Someone asked, “How do we spell it?!”

An example of how we spell ‘Eiffel Tower’ was made available. We were quite curious about this building which got the group discussing where they’ve traveled. We have QUITE the traveling crew .

Our outside time allowed us to fulfill what each one of us needed: quiet time at the art table or area to run around on this beautiful day.

Wee Sprouts– Carrots.

Breakfast– Kix and oranges.

Lunch– Cheese quesadillas, oranges/bananas, green peppers/carrots.

PM snack– Homemade banana and applesauce muffins with block cheese.

Hope everyone has a terrific night.

Reminder: Group A goes to the farm tomorrow!

Link to pictures: WF 4/19