Friday, February 19, 2016

Happy Days in K!


We started off our morning by adding some important people to our vocabulary books! 


We spent a lot of time exploring pattern block shapes and geoboards. Our main job was to try to build shapes with other shapes! This is actually a math standard and really important "play" so that children become used to using geometric language! 


Audrina made a circle! 


BOOM...Ariana got right to work and made a bunch of hexagons with smaller shapes! 


They were all beyond excited to come and see how she made them...


Malachy made a rhombus with 2 smaller triangles.





A circle! 


Look! A square! 



Carter kept building hexagons....and made them larger and larger and larger! It was really cool. I've never seen a kiddo do that before! 





Brayden found some hexagons hidden in this pattern block card! 




Happy birthday to a very special little boy in our class! We all hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend Malachy! 





We played a fun game to help us practice blending sounds together during reading. 



We all got a copy of our new class book. You could probably hear us reading it down the hallway! 


Did you know that David Shannon likes to hide his character, Fergus, (from Good Boy Fergus) in EVERY book he writes! Carter found him! 


100th Day

We were so busy that I didn't get a lot of pictures taken. Ugh! They were so cute and I just love this day!

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Writing How To Stories



We've just jumped right back into more work in our how-to unit. It's so fun to see them actively writing and sharing their stories with each other. Look at Kiera's front cover! Now who wouldn't want to read that?! 


Kiera realized, through our mini-lesson, that she didn't have quite enough details. She had told the reader to "put their soccer gear on." Well, what does that mean? A swimming suit? A hat? You have to tell very specific details when teaching someone how to do something. You HAVE to check out her additional sentences below :) 


Charlie wrote an adorable story about how to do gymnastics...her most favorite thing to talk about at school! 


We learned that writers often read to a partner so that partner can figure out if anything is missing or needs to be added. 


Just look at this diagram that Carson made! I talked to him about a diagram for a few minutes and I won't even teach a real lesson on it until next week! 


Here is what she added! So cute! 


Another beautiful diagram, with labels, by Braylee. 


One of our first tries at using the amazing DOT DOT DOT...

Late pics, but cute nonetheless!