I can't believe it's the middle of April already but wow....my kindergarten friends' work sure shows it! They have become such confident readers and writers and I am amazed every single day! Today in class we did a spring directed draw and I asked the class to write about what they like to do in spring or the things they notice that they love in spring. Their drawings were stunning and their writing was WONDERFUL! Wow, K-1! I am so proud of them!
In HMH, we have been reading books with the theme "Home of the Free and Brave." Today we read a book title Happy Birthday to the U.S. This was a great book about America's birthday and we learned many important facts about the beautiful country we live in. We also learned that good readers visualize when they read and to do this they use their 5 senses. We talked about what they means and we practiced this important skill where I told them a few different stories and we talked about what they saw, heard or smelled as I said the story out loud. They had fun learning how to "visualize" and the loved sharing what they pictured in their minds. Great job, K-1! To go along with this book, we did a mini-book that went along with this perfectly. They had so much fun reading the mini-book as a class and highlighted all the "heart words" we found. Then I paired up the class into partners and they got to read the book by themselves to their partner and taking turns. I LOVED walking around and hearing them read the book to one another. They are becoming quite the readers!
In math, we are just finishing up sorting by attributes. They are doing wonderful learning this math concept and are doing great practicing this skill on their own. They learned they can sort things by one attribute but they can also look at a group of objects and there can be many different ways they can sort them by many different attributes such as by: shape, size, color, number pattern, etc. This was a quick math unit and they did a great job with it! We finished our 2nd math book and I sent it home with my friends earlier in the week. They can keep it at home and it doesn't need to come back.
In social studies, we are learning about wants vs. needs. They are learning that needs are things that they have to have to survive such as food, water, shelter, clothing, etc. They learned that wants are things that they like to have but don't necessarily need to live such as video games, toys, soda, Ipads, etc. I am so proud of how well they have learned this important concept in social studies and how well they can explain both things when asked what the difference is. Yay, K-1!
