Friday, September 25, 2015

Bus Safety Snack

To finish our unit on bus safety, we enjoyed a Bus Safety Snack today. 
It was a wonderful treat to end our unit and our Friday!  
Enjoy a few fun pictures below.












Read to Self

To introduce our small group reading, we have been learning about 
some of the components of Daily 5.  In a recent lesson, we learned
about the three ways to read a book:
1. Read the pictures   2. Read the words    3. Retell the story


We also discussed our rules and expectations for what it will look & sound 
like during read to self time.  When we practiced building our stamina during
read to self, we read for 7 minutes!!  We were very proud of our hard work!



Making Sense of Shapes

During our introduction to pattern blocks we identified the shapes 
and discussed their similarities and differences.  Following the lesson, 
students were able to explore the pattern blocks using picture cards. 






Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Beginning of our Kindergarten Journey

We had a wonderful first day in Kindergarten!  Our day was filled with music, learning and laughter.  We took a tour of the school while searching for a mysterious raccoon named "Chester"!  Here are a few of the pictures I captured from our busy day.






This is a clip of one of our brain breaks.
We are in our "rocketship" counting down from 10-0.