Dramatizing

Here we are dramatizing the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". One group was using blocks to dramatize the story another was using headbands and puppets, masks and a feltboard. Each day your child's group for that week will go to a different center and get a chance to use different props to dramatize the story. The groups have to dramatize the story two times. Each group has a "table captain" who has to hand out the role cards to their group members and then the student write their center plan and draw a picture of what their role is going to be and then write a sentence at the bottom of the center plan that says "I am going to be..." and they write their role.

Fun Friday Art Project

Every Friday we have "Fun Friday" this means we do lots of fun things that we only do on Friday's. We start the morning with "Open Door" where the door adjoining the two kindergarten classrooms is open and students in both classrooms can go in either classroom for choice time in the morning. We also always have an art project that we do that morning. Today we made these beautiful fall trees. We used corks to stamp in paint and decorate the tree to look like the different colors of the fall leaves. We will hang these up on the bulletin board in the hallway for everyone to enjoy!

Graphics Practice

We have been working hard practicing different graphics that will eventually lead to letters!

We started level 2 of graphics and practiced "bagels or donuts" pictured below. One of the rules during graphics practice is that we can only write while the music is playing. When the music stops we have to put our hand that has the dry-erase marker in it up in the air. That's another way we practice self-regulation. Even though we may want to keep writing we have to control our bodies and stop when the music stops. While we write each graphic we have "private speech" that we quietly say to ourselves that tells us how to form the graphics. For example, for bagels or donuts we say "around close" when we make the circle shape we always start making the top of the circle first. We made all of the bigger circles first then when the music stopped and started up again we went back and made the smaller circles inside the bigger circles, being very careful to make sure the smaller circle didn't touch the bigger circle. It's tricky! Try it at home!

Math Centers

This group was using the "Storyboards" to create a story with the unifix cubes and tell their study buddy what they were pretending their cubes were. One student said that she was pretending the cubes were horses and she had "4 baby horses and 1 momma horse in the corral."

At another center we used pattern blocks to fill in a shape...

These students were practicing sorting at their center...

This group worked together to put this number puzzle together...

This group was using color tiles, I saw lots of great things happening here. Some students were sorting some were building and some made designs with their color tiles.

Welcome class of 2028!!

I'm very excited to meet Aadi, Amalia, Arun, Colby, Cora, Deep, Elena, Ella, Emelia, Halle, Jimmy, Jayden, Kayla, Maddie, Magdalena, Natnicha, Ollie, Riley, Sunday, William and Vincent!! I can't wait to meet you all on the visiting day in Wednesday, September 9th!! Check out our countdown to kindergarten! That will start this Friday the 21st!! 25 days to kindergarten!!

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Graduation Songs

We have been working hard this week practicing our songs for graduation! If you have any free time this weekend you can practice singing our songs at home! The first one is "Bye Bye Pizza Pie"

Here is our second song "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe":

Our third song is "If You're Happy and you Know It"