Good Afternoon!
**The farm is still OFF for this week. Reports are that the mosquitos are still quite a bother down at the farm. Fingers crossed that we’ll be able to go in the next couple of weeks. We’ll keep everyone up to date!
The welcome activity for today was a shape activity where children spun the spinner and put the correlating shape on their board! Rosemary sat with Miss Melinda as they played the game together. “Look! I rolled on the triangle!” said Rosemary as she put the piece on her board.
Meanwhile, a variety of ramps were made in the habitrail area. Different wooden blocks were used as many angles were tested using cars and little people.
When the swimmers went off to the Y, the rest of us went outside where it was smiles galore!
Swim report: It was a great swim session! Here were some of the comments that we heard..
“I got to go on a boat and swim with the noodle!”
“I jumped off the diving board into the deep end.”
“I put my head all the way under the water!”
“I used a rainbow colored noodle.”
In large group, we added another author to our author study! Today, we read ‘Bear Wants More’ and ‘Bear Feels Sick’. We looked over both stories and found out that Karma Wilson wrote the story, making her the author and Jane Chapman did the illustrations meaning that she drew the pictures. On each page, we looked at how the illustrations correlated with the words that were written on the page.
K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.
K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.
Our journaling time today allowed for friends to express themselves and relay what they were thinking at that moment!
In kindergarten:
This afternoon, Jackson and Addi created different shapes. After making the shapes, we used words such as sides and vertices (corners). As we made the shapes, we counted the long magnetic shapes as the sides and the magnetic balls as the vertices.
Two different sized triangles were made. After Addi made the first triangle, she proceeded to make a bigger triangle with longer sides. When asked what the shape was, she and Jackson were a little hesitant. This brought up the conversation of even though the triangles don’t look the SAME, they are still triangles. A triangle is a shape with three sides and three vertices. We put them up against each other to see the similarities and differences.
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
After we made several shapes, the activity took a different turn.
Addi commented, “I’m going to make a pattern. Jackson offered to help and with great teamwork, they made two pattern strings!
Breakfast– Kix and blueberries.
Lunch– Shredded cheese and refried beans on tortillas, strawberries, and cucumbers/peppers.
PM snack– Sunflower seeds and pretzels.
Wee Sprouts– Cucumber.
Have a great night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 9/13