Good Afternoon!
The welcome activity focused on using our one-to-one correspondence skills. There were several flower cards available. Using the counters, children put the correct number of counters on each flower depending on the number that was shown. For example, a flower that had the number 4 (representing four petals) would have 4 counters on it!
K.NS.4: Perform one-to-one correspondence tasks.
In kindergarten today:
Our kindergarteners plus a few older preschoolers grabbed trays and met at the circle table. Each child participating had their own bag of spoons. White spoons were the lowercase spoons while the clear spoons were the uppercase spoons. The goal was to match the lowercase spoon to its matching uppercase spoon.
There were many techniques that came about. Lulu and Max worked together for a while. They put the spoons across the entire tray and just started searching for matches. Lucy separated the clear spoons and white spoons before starting the matching process.
Lulu commented, “Once you start finding matches, it gets easier!” Maddie and Lulu completed this activity several times and after the first time, they both stated, “I want to do this all by myself this time!”…and they did!
During the process, we came up with words that started with specific letters. For example, Lulu found the letter ‘L’. As a group, we brainstormed words that start with the letter ‘L’. Lucy, Lulu, lion, and lollipop were just a few that were thought of!
Lulu also noticed that a few of the letters looked EXACTLY the same on the uppercase and lowercase spoons. “These p’s look the same!” We talked about a few letters that look exactly the same in the uppercase and lowercase form (just a little bigger in size). We came up with the following list: C/c, O/o, P/p, S/s, V/v, W/w, X/x, and Z/z.
K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
The rest of our day involved some quality outside time. It was still a little chilly so we grabbed those jackets before heading outside!
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and PPC raspberries.
Lunch– Scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortillas, PPC banana, and fresh snap peas.
PM snack– Blue corn chips and refried beans.
Wee Sprout– PPC snap peas.
Have a lovely night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 9/6