We had more snowy fun and learning during this last week of January! I think we will all be happy when it is warm again and everyone stops getting sick! We have had 4-6 kids absent every day for the last week or so and it has been so empty without everyone there.
This week, we started learning about story maps. We talked about who the characters in a story are, what the setting is, and how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story. This is something we will continue to work on for the rest of the year. We started with the book, "There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow." The cold lady swallows lots of different things, then hiccups and a snowman appears!
We made our own mini-books of the story during center time.
And hunted for the objects the cold lady swallowed around the room and recorded them.
Here are some of the fun snow-themed centers we did:
Our finished shaving cream snowmen
Practicing positional words in a book about penguins
Reading short vowel words on snowmen cards
Making shape snowflakes
Finding words that started with M like "mitten"
Sorting words that rhymed with snow
Melting snowflakes with addition facts
Sorting snowballs with words that had th, sh, ch, and wh
Building word family snowmen
Ice fishing for math facts
And matching mittens that had pictures and the ch, sh, th, and wh sounds
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In math this week, we worked more on teen numbers. We played a matching game with partners and matched teen numbers to their equations. (12 is the same as 10+2, etc.)
The kids are getting very good at automatically knowing what 10+ a number is!
We also practiced adding ten to numbers and raced our animals to the end of our teen number board.
We started to break 10 into partners. We used a 10 frame and marshmallows to play a game with a friend. One person hid their eyes while the other hid some marshmallows under a cup. Then they opened their eyes and had to use the ten frame to figure out how many marshmallows were missing. It was a great math exercise for them!
We also built number sense snowmen. The kids had to match ten frames, tally marks, and equations to each snowman to build them.
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In literacy, we learned a new word family, the "-en" family. The kids have gotten so good at seeing word family chunks in words! This was a fun word family for our class because there were lots of friends with the -en sound at the end of their name!
We also hunted for the -en sound and wrote our own words.
We learned our last digraph, "wh." We used a wheelbarrow to collect piles of dirt that had words that started with "wh" on them.
We designed our own mittens and wrote describing words and sentences about them during writing time.
We also read a book called "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow" and drew a picture of ourselves in our snow clothes. We listed all the things we wear in the snow.
On Friday, we talked a little about Groundhog's Day and made a fun craft to go with it. We listened to this video to learn more about groundhogs and also enjoyed the groundhog song while we were working:
We made a guess about whether we thought the groundhog would see his shadow or not. It looks like our class got it right!
Aiden was our star student this week and he had fun showing us a plate his mom made when she was in kindergarten!
Ivory and Madison won student of the month for showing the trait of honesty!
They each got a certificate, some prizes, and popcorn! Here they are with our Principal, Mr. Hansen, taking a fun photo! Good job girls!
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