Well what a week! I will begin tomorrow with our remote learning, but here is a summary of our past week in JK.
500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins was so funny and the pictures still scare me like they did when I was little. We read another favorite of mine, The King's Stilts. These longer books with more complicated plots and characters hold their interest and help build their ability to focus and engage for longer periods of time as we near the last part of JK. I have spoken with some of you but please feel free to visit our library when we are back, and look for series and chapter books to read together. You will find many series at public library too, until then. Lila loved "The Magic Treehouse" Series and many others I read to her. It helped hook her into the love of reading. Now she's lost in Percy Jackson world never to return. :) . I miss the days of Beverly Cleary. Sigh.
Fine Motor:
We completed March self portraits. They are my favorite so far! We are building quite an art portfolio for you to take home at the end of the year!
We have been reading about the circus and admiring Dr. Seuss's creative imagination, and how he made the characters so endearing and cute! My dog, Charlie, has the "Grinch Feet" with long fur on his paws. They all have a similar fluffy dog like appeal.
They all practiced scissor skills while coloring and cutting shamrocks for our Leprechaun Trap! Team work was amazing on this project, as they all worked together to make it beautiful to attract that sneaky leprechaun. (We had to move this up in a hurry so thanks so much to Mrs. Dinelli for making that happen in my absence Friday!).
Social Studies/Literacy:
We celebrated the colorful holiday of Holi and made tshirts with paint and stencils. The children completed a color by number sheet too and loved hearing a story about Holi. Thanks so much to Sanaya's mom for the fun activity and sharing this with JK!
We had a visitor, Madeline from 4th grade! She came to Irish Dance for St. Patty's Day celebration. What talent and how sweet of her to share with us.
We visited the Kindergarten room to find out what Kindergarten will be like! The children had K buddies who showed them around the room, centers, toys, library etc. They were all happy to be together.
We wrote rhyming books and illustrated them, using Dr. Seuss as our guide. I loved that they drew Trufula Trees! We learned some interesting facts about Dr. Seuss, and talked about his being the author and illustrator.
The children practiced writing Qq's, remembering to begin with "magic C" for lower case "q".
Math & Science:
We had a cup challenge using Dr. Seuss red and white hat bottoms and worked to build the tallest tower. Arlo holds the record of 8 cups! Ethan came up with a new way to stack them that provided a better base and structure, and they all aligned them carefully. They love challenges as a class! It was a fun beginning to our day.
Their handwriting is impressive with them concentrating on the upper and lower case letter scale. They will slip a bit over the summer with more time outside where they should be!...so be sure to encourage their writing centers and sending letters or creating pictures etc.
We talked about Bartholamew Cubbins and his 500 hats and how many sets of 10 and 100 add up to make 500. It's nice to make bigger comparisons with real numbers and not "make believe" numbers. I love to hear all of their estimations when we begin carefully considering amounts.
The children learned about hand washing and invisible bacteria! We practiced different strategies to wash all of the bacteria off and stay healthy.
Continue to practice rhyming with all of the Dr. Seuss books. They are fun to read and full of CVC words, popcorn words, and fun characters to engage children as they are decoding and rhyming, memorizing and loving reading.
More to come tomorrow with lots of information about our remote learning. I'm excited to engage in a new way and ride this wave of crazy with you all.
Ms. Massey
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