Poem 8/24!

Each week we have a poem that is introduced on Monday and practiced throughout the week both at school and home. At the end of the week, we have a chance to perform the poem in front of the class and cut/glue/illustrate the poem in our poetry journals. By the end of the year we will have an entire journal filled with every poem!

Read 2 Self

Throughout the past two weeks, the students have been practicing building their stamina with both reading and writing. We start off by first practicing the Daily 5 choice, Read to Self. As a class we hope to stay in our places, following the I-Chart expectations that we created together and see how long we can go without having to stop and return to group. Our entire school has been practicing building their stamina and this past week we had a stamina challenge to see which class was able to have the most stamina during Read to Self.

I-Charts...Read 2 Self & Work on Writing

When first beginning to introduce Daily 5, we create what is called an I-Chart together as a class. The chart has two sections to it. A section for what is expected of the students during that choice and what is expected of the teacher. After discussing and modeling several good and poor choices within the Daily 5 category being introduced, we complete the chart as a class. We hang these charts up in the classroom to refer back to throughout the year!

Shapes!

The class used GEO boards to practice creating 2D shapes using a rubberband. They created many different sizes of squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons and even created a few shapes on their own! This activity will eventually be placed in our "Math by Myself" station during Daily 5 Math.

Sorting by Color

Today the class practiced one of our first nine weeks report skills, "sorting objects by color". Each table received a tub of math manipulatives and they worked as a group to sort them according to color. We will continue to work on the sorting skill with not only grouping into color, but shape, size and many other attributes throughout the year!

First Day!

Today was our first day of kindergarten! We put our things away, found our mailboxes and hooks, listened to stories, started Daily 5 "3 Ways to Read a Book" and explored with our math manipulative tubs! We had such a fun day meeting our new friends and getting to know our school!


Mrs. Brown's Kindergarten Class 2012-2013!


Making silly faces and being goofy!

Ready To Go!

Room 26 is ready to be filled with 24 five and six year olds! Bring on the reading, writing, math, science, social studies and much, much more!!! It's going to be an exciting year! :)

Final Message from Mrs. Brown's Class 2011-12!

Goodbye Kindergarten......Hello First Grade!!

Beach Party

We had our end of the year beach party on Thursday. We went outside with the three other full day kindergarten classes and played several games. Our first game we split the kids into 5 teams. They raced from the bucket to a hula hoop with letters inside. A word was called out and they had to go find the beginning, middle or end sound that was said in the hoop, bring it back and put it in the bucket. Our second game was Sharks and Minnows! We chose 5 or 6 sharks to start off the game. The rest of the students were minnows. Once the whistle was blown, they raced to the other end of the playground, trying to not get caught! If they were tagged, they turned into seaweed. Seaweed is able to tag other runners but cannot move their legs, only their arms. The game is over when only a few minnows are left running. Those minnows become the new sharks! We finished the afternoon of games off by writing our favorite words and numbers with sidewalk chalk! After we came in from the game time, we watched an ocean themed movie and had ice cream sundaes sitting on our beach towels! Yum!

Final Poem!

Today we read our last poem for the year. Our poem was about summer time and how much fun it is to drink lemonade! Way to go kindergarten! You read a lot of poems this year and have become fluent readers with GREAT expression!

Write the Room!

For our second to last day, we took a sheet of paper with ten spots on it, a clipboard and a pencil and searched the room for our Top 10 Favorite Words that are posted in the classroom. After we wrote our top ten favorites, we shared them with each other. Some of the words were....

• reading
• math
• brownie bucks
• beach
• count
• check for understanding
• daily 5
• helper
• the
• put
• gnashed
• swimming
• .......plus many, many more!

Field Day!

We had a VERY gorgeous afternoon during our last week of school! Our entire class was split into teams with students from each grade. Those teams then competed in several games such as obstacle course, golf ball relay, tug of war and 50 yard dash. Each team recorded points after a win or a loss and after all of the games were finished, we met back in the gym to declare the top 3 teams! What a fun day!!

Ocean Painting!

To finish off our study of Oceans, we read the story Fish Faces. This book was about how fish do not all look alike. Some fish have long, short, pointy or flat noses...fish have sad faces or mean faces...fish that have mouths that open wide, mouths like a tube or a beak...or fish with lines and stripes and waves! After reading the story we took a crayon and outlined a fish with different features and some background illustrations as well. Once we were finished outlining our pictures, we took watercolor paints and colored the outline in.

The finished products are hanging in the hallway on display!

Here is the Beehive!

What's that Commotion in the Ocean???

During our writing time today, we read the story Commotion in the Ocean. We read about sharks, sting rays, dolphins, crabs, lobsters and octopuses (among many others). We learned that turtles lay their eggs on dry land, the sting ray will sting any type of animal that comes near it and octopus will spray out ink if something is trying to get it. 

After reading the story, we made a list of ocean animals we learned about. Then we went back to our seats and wrote our favorite ocean animal and why we like it using a real fact about the animal.

My favorite ocean animal is a piranha.                  My favorite ocean animal is a sting ray.

I like it because it sucks blood.                                         I like it because it stings.

My favorite ocean animal is a polar bear.               My favorite ocean animal is a sting ray.

I like it because it can hold its babies.                                       I like it because it stings.

      

My favorite ocean animal is a jellyfish.                       My favorite ocean animal is a dolphin.

I like it because something hangs under its neck.              I like it because it makes noise.

       

My favorite ocean animal is a shark.                      My favorite ocean animal is a jellyfish.

I like it because they have sharp teeth.                                    I like it because it wiggles.

          

My favorite ocean animal is a whale.                   My favorite ocean animal is a angelfish.

I like it because its the biggest!                                          I like it because it's beautiful.

 

    

My favorite ocean animal is a polar bear.               My favorite ocean animal is a dolphin.

I like it because it keeps its babies warm.                            I like it because it squeaks.

      

My favorite ocean animal is a angelfish.                  My favorite ocean animal is a sting ray.

I like it because it's very beautiful.                                   I like it because it stings people.

       

My favorite ocean animal is a dolphin.                    My favorite ocean animal is a dolphin.

I like it because it squeaks.                                            I like it because it squeaks.

      

 My favorite ocean animal is a shark.

I like it because it has sharp teeth.