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January has been a busy month for the Kindergarten students as they have gotten used to being back into their routines and learning cycles. We enjoy seeing their progress each and every day and it is amazing to see the growth and understanding of their learning across a variety of different learning topics. We have been busy preparing for our upcoming storytelling evening and the students are looking forward to presenting their original pieces to their families. Throughout this story telling process the Kindergarten students have learned that all stories are like a roller coaster. The story begins and after establishing the characters and setting the roller coaster runs into a "bump" (a problem); it is from here that the students must create a solution to the problem in order to wrap up the story. Furthermore, after listening to a story being read aloud the Kindergarten students are working on identifying the characters, setting and problem within a given text. All this work around storytelling has been extremely engaging for our students and has most certainly contributed to their overall literacy development. We plan to continue this work as the year progresses and continue to find and create stories throughout our work. With winter all around us, the Kindergarten students have been exploring with science. They have been looking closely at the different elements of winter. As a class we went on a winter walk around the neighborhood to find evidence that winter was all around us. Students noted the following on our walk: "The tree's are bare - they have no leaves" "The grass is brown" "There are tracks in the snow" "There is ice on the sidewalk" "There are some animals in the trees and sky" With this evidence we continued our conversation about winter in the classroom, by bringing three different size containers full of snow. Students then predicted which container of snow would take the longest amount of time to melt. After completing this experiment, students observed that snow is made of water - and this conversation is now leading us into the inquiry question of what are the ingredients of a blizzard. In math, the students have been busy working through a weekly open ended math task. These word problems are presented in Spanish and the students work with their teacher to decipher the important vocabulary with the help of images before working on the problem. Within these problems we have been focusing both on numeracy skills and patterning skills. As teachers we plan to continue this work as the year progresses, as we have seen great growth in the kindergarten students problem solving skills.
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