¡Bienvenidos a Kinder!
Welcome to our AM and PM Kindergarten Blog
The Kindergarten students are constantly working on their oral Spanish language development. Through books, music and games we have been encouraging the students over the course of the last month to use more and more of their acquired language. The students enjoying showcasing their language skills and truly feel a sense of pride when they are able to imbed specific vocabulary into their conversations with their teachers and peers. In math we continue to expose the Kinders to a weekly math problem that is presented to them in Spanish. With the support of their teacher they are beginning to understand how to pull our the important information from a world problem that will support them in finding a solution. Our world problems have been focused around numeracy and regrouping one number in multiple ways. For example: how many mays can we use two numbers to make 10. Furthermore, we have also focused our world problems on patterns, and asking the kindergartens to see by "how many" a given pattern is changing or growing in each increment. February was a fast a busy month and the Kindergarten students continued to create unique learning opportunities within the classroom. Over the course of the month the students explored and examined the qualities of a kind person. Through a variety of activities the Kindergarten students demonstrated and explained ways in which we can be kind to one another. One of these activities was building kindness superheroes during center time. Using plasticine - the Kinders would build a superhero and then have to explain what it's specific "kindness superpower" was. From there they would reflect on their creating within their visual journals. The students also participated in "Friendship Fruit Salad" and learned what it means to give compliments to people. The students greatly enjoyed this activity and can now be heard complimenting each other around the classroom. A few pieces of student voice from this activity was the following: " I like how you always help clean up toys- even if you were not playing with them" "I like how you always hold the door for us at the end of the school day" "I like how you ask me to play with you during center time" The kindergarten students continue to build upon their literacy skills and have been working very hard at their letter and sound recognition skills. Through activities like "letter of the week", letter hunts, literacy games and printing activities, the students are working on having a strong understanding of the letters of the alphabet. This is a skill that is important to early literacy development and something that you will hear the kindergartens talking about for the remainder of the kindergarten year. See some pictures below of ways in which we have been exploring letters and their sounds.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
TeachersAM - Srta. Lynda Elhage and Sra. Jordan Irwin Archives
January 2018
Categories |