Kindergarten Field Trip & Weekly Update

We had a blast on our field trip to Peach Tree Farms and Cosmo Park!  I think it wore them out and many still seemed a bit sleepy today, teachers included! Thanks to everyone who came on the trip or sent drinks or snacks. 

Check out the slideshow of pictures below.

A look at our learning this week...

Fundations: we didn't have fundations this week due to our daily science lessons with Mrs. Fitch.  Our last day of the science unit is on Monday and we will resume fundations on Tuesday.  Please continue to review the letters we have learned so far (name, sound, letter formation): t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s.

Shared Reading: we read the big book Setting the Table and the poem Firefighter Song. Both featured our new word wall word, the.  The poem also tied in nicely with Fire Safety Week.  Many of our read alouds at snack time and our morning work activities from 8-8:20 were also centered around Fire Safety Week. 

Next week's new spelling word:

see

Practicing our spelling words

Science: We completed 4 out of 5 lessons on the human body.  Mrs. Fitch, our media specialist, and I teach these lessons together.  They last about 1 1/2-2 hours each morning.  Monday is our last day.  Today we had 30 seconds to put as many legos on a lego board as possible.  Then we did it again, but the second time we taped 3 of their fingers with masking tape.  This was our way to help them kind of see what it would be like if their fingers only had 1 bone in them instead of 3.  They found it much harder to bend their fingers, pick up the legos, etc. this way.  We had great conversations around what they noticed and learned.  Then we charted about scientists.  Everything on the chart is something one of the students shared.  They came up with some great ideas! 

Math: we worked on counting backwards from 10, identifying shapes and adding this week.  Check the Friday Folder for ways to help at home.  

Writing: we are learning how to add labels to help us tell our story.  Check out the "best guess spelling" on the poster with the house. That is totally kid spelling with no help from me!  So proud of how many of them are trying to be fearless spellers!