Everybody has already earned their first one this week!
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Swag Tags
Swag tags are one of the positive reinforcement classroom management tools that we will be using in our kindergarten this year. They are small cards students can earn through out the year and put on a necklace. Students are given many opportunities to add to their collection for positive behavior, academic achievements and choices they make during the school day. Every Friday we will award tags to those students that have earned one and they get to wear their tags for the day.
Everybody has already earned their first one this week!
Everybody has already earned their first one this week!
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom!
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom! is a classic book that helps teach the alphabet and rhyming structure. The 26 lower-case letters climb a coconut tree
in alphabetical order, until the tree bends so much all 26
letters fall out of the tree. At night, the letter "a" comes back out and climbs up the coconut tree, dare, double-daring the other letters to catch him.
Dare double-dare you to listen to this classic by clicking the image below and not it get it stuck in your head!
Dare double-dare you to listen to this classic by clicking the image below and not it get it stuck in your head!
We also created some of our own coconut trees and counted the letters in our name to make sure we had enough room.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Sorting and Classifying
Students benefit from having lots of experiences sorting, comparing and
classifying objects before participating in patterning activities as part
of the kindergarten math program. These activities require
children to organize items into groups based on a common characteristic
such as shape, size, number or color and explain why they
grouped the items as they did.
In class we have started sorting by color. You can practice at home by using everyday items to create simple sorting games. Start by introducing a group of four items in which all items but one share a common characteristic. For example, you could line up three of your shoes and one of your child’s shoes and ask him which item does not belong with the others. Once your child has picked the one that does not belong, ask him to explain why the other three items go together.
You can also try the color sorting game by clicking the image below.
In class we have started sorting by color. You can practice at home by using everyday items to create simple sorting games. Start by introducing a group of four items in which all items but one share a common characteristic. For example, you could line up three of your shoes and one of your child’s shoes and ask him which item does not belong with the others. Once your child has picked the one that does not belong, ask him to explain why the other three items go together.
You can also try the color sorting game by clicking the image below.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Meet Peacemaker Panda
Our classroom mascot Peacemaker Panda had a welcome message ready for us on our first week of Kindergarten. Peacemaker Panda will join us every day for our morning message to help us learn how to make good choices.
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