Teddy Bear Fun

From December 13-December 20th, we had a week of fun with teddy bears!  We each brought our teddy bear to school. Our teddy bears came to the carpet and listened to stories with us.  We taught them the rules of how to sit on the carpet and they enjoyed some teddy bear fiction stories and some non fiction stories about bears.  During centers, our teddy bears either came to a center with us, or stayed quietly at their seats.  In writing, we wrote in a teddy bear journal about the adventures of our teddy bear at school.  We tried to use bears as much as possible with counting in math.  Our teddy bears even learned to count at some of the centers too!  We got to show them how a ten and double ten frame work.  At the end of the week we had a teddy bear picnic.  We sang songs and ate some delicious teddy bear snacks.  It was a "beary" fun week!  It was fun to come in each morning and see what our bears had been up to when we left them alone all night long.   Mrs. Ramienski's mom, Pat was our mystery reader!!!

 Here we are getting our bears ready to listen to a story.  We had to teach them the rules.

 Here we are practicing our counting.  We were learning to compare numbers using words like less, greater, more, and equal.  We even know how to use the symbols <,>, and =!

 These bears are learning to count at math centers with Unifix blocks.

 These bears are learning to count dots on dominoes at math centers.

 Look at the yummy teddy bear treats Mrs. Ramienski brought in for us to enjoy.  We had to count the treats and use our math words like more, less and equal before we ate. :)

This is Pat!  She's Mrs. Ramienski's mom, and is a retired teacher.  She loves to volunteer in our classroom and brought some teddy bear books for us to enjoy. 


Here's a link to the song we sang for the teddy bear picnic! 
Teddy Bear Picnic Song on Youtube

Mini Golf!

Mr. McKinley's 4th grader were learning about geometry in their math class.  They decided to use what they were learning about shapes and angles to make a mini golf course at Flora Singer.  We got to work with them one afternoon and got to play mini golf on the course they made.  It was a lot of fun!

Yikes! It's been almost a month since my last post!

I don't know where the time has gone, but I can't believe it's been a month since my last post.  Sorry for the delay, but we have certainly been busy in Kindergarten!  Here's an extra long update.  :-) 

In reading, we loved reading different versions of The Gingerbead Man.  Most children loved The Gingerbread Girl, because she outsmarted the fox and tied him up with her licorice hair! :)   Now, we are reading books about bears and we will have our teddy bear picnic next week.  Some of the reading strategies we are focusing on with these books are making predictions, asking questions, and retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  We even made a graph of our favorite book!

 

 

 

In writing we are hard at work with sequencing.  We sequenced some of our routines such as brushing teeth, washing hands and getting dressed.  Then we wrote sentences about these things and our writing is getting a lot better.  We know to use a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, lowercase letters for the rest of the sentence, spaces between our words and a period at the end of each sentence!  We also sequenced the steps on how to eat a gingerbread cookie!  Now we are writing a book about what we do in the morning, afternoon and evening! 

In math we've really been busy with numbers!  We had a lot of fun counting with gingerbread people.  We use cubes to count and know how to use a ten frame, double ten frame and even a triple ten frame!  Now we are working on even and odd.  We know that even numbers always have a partner, and odd numbers have one left out.  We also like to compare numbers by using the words more, less, equal, most and least!!

We've been busy planting grass in science, and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, frog, and plant.   Now we're focusing more on Social Studies and are learning about maps and globes.  It's important that your child know the broad to specific areas they live:  North America---> United States ---> Maryland ---> Montgomery County---> Silver Spring. 

We've had some fun mystery readers. Noah's dad came back for a second visit and Griffin's mom was our mystery reader Friday!