March 27 – April 7, 2017 These Weeks We . . . · Played many math games – Rainbow Math, Die Plus 2; Tic Tac Toe; Guess my number · Learned a lot about rainbows, heard some great books about rainbows and some new songs · Heard the stories Chameleon Colors; A Color of His Own; and Rex then water colored a chameleon, ASK ME which book I liked best and why · We made some big rainbows with tissue paper for our classroom windows · Read and illustrated the story “Can You See It?” · Talked about how we have so many colors in our life and showed them in the paper “I am a rainbow” · Welcomed April which is “National Poetry Month” and have been hearing and learning lots of poems – our class recited “Shout It” over the loud speaker for the whole school to hear – we did a great job! · Had Reader’s Workshop where we became “Avid Readers”, and learned how much fun it is to read poems · Had Writer’s Workshop where we finished our persuasive writing and shared them with the class and started writing poems · Heard the story Planting a Rainbow then made a class book we had teams working on different pages, ASK ME what color page I worked on and who was on my team · In math we are decomposing numbers to 10, discovering different ways (number pairs) to make them · We had a visit from Liz a dental hygienist from Walpole Dental who spoke to us on taking care of our teeth · In science we changed old paper into new paper, ASK ME how I did that · During Open Circle we discussed expressing anger appropriately, using deep breaths to calm down
F.Y.I. – Mark you calendars * April 27 – class “Poetry Party”; 1:45-2:30 * May 19 – class field trip to Southwick Zoo * June 12 – Kindergarten Memory Show; 1:45-2:30 * June 13 – Last day of Kindergarten – full day
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