Hello!
Hope everyone had a nice weekend!
We started off our Monday by conducting an experiment at the art table using water colors and cardboard. Jackson requested using droppers so using the droppers, friends conducted an experiment looking to see if the cardboard would soak up the water colors. The conclusion was that the water colors do NOT soak into the cardboard.
Miss Melinda took the cardboard over to the sink to see what would happen when she tipped it upright. The water colors slipped right off the cardboard. So, we tried different forms of writing surfaces!
The play dough that we used Friday for our volcano was put out at the table to see if it felt any differently. Children used their hands to form the play dough in different ways while also using utensils.
Friends were quite affectionate outside this morning.
In kindergarten:
This week, we’re focusing on the following FAB’s:
K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairy tales, poems).
K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than.
K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.
We used the Montessori beads to compare and contrast this morning. At first, we took two beads and compared them, using the terms, more and less and equal to. For example, we took the green square bead containing four beads along with the yellow square bead that has sixteen beads. I asked which one has more, to which their answer was the yellow! (K.NS.9)
I asked Jackson and Addi to get two square beads that were equal to one another. Jackson held up two blue square beads while Addi got two purple square beads. (K.NS.9)
The activity took a turn when Addi and Jackson started building a tower, going from biggest on the bottom to the smallest on the top. I asked how they built their tower and Addi responded, “I just started with the biggest”.
We also built our own groups. I took four blue squares and added one purple. I asked Jackson and Addi what one DOESN’T fit in the the group. They both pointed to the purple and I asked why. Here’s what I heard: (K.DA.1)
“It doesn’t match the blue.”
“It’s too small.”
They took the initiative to put the beads away by putting one color away at a time! They both noticed that the beads are categorized by size.
In large group this week, we’re going to be learning about different kinds of narrative text genres. Today, we focused on poetry! I got out two books, ‘A Light In The Attic’ and ‘It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles’ and right away as I was taking them up to the large group area, Jackson shouted, “Hey! We’re reading poetry today!”
Each child got a turn to pick one poem out of each book! There was a mixture of funny poems and serious poems. We filled in our text genre chart by adding the poetry books that we read today! (K.RL.3.1)
Breakfast– Whole wheat bagel with sunflower butter and apples.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and chicken, oranges, and broccoli/cauliflower.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with blueberries.
Wee Sprouts– Green beans and carrots.
We hope you had a great day!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 9/19