Like, The Three Little Pigs. Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in!!! Not by the hair of my chiney chin chin? We all remember that one!
During our workshops our Kindergartners made replicas of the houses of the Three Little Pigs. They also made The Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.
What week of Fairy Tales could be complete without Jack the Beanstalk? The kids enjoyed making replicas of Beanstalks.
They also heard the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
The kindergartners really enjoyed doing these special crafts. Remember they can add these to their Kindergarten box that you are creating for your Family project.
In Reading your kindergartner is blending and decoding words with the letters m, a, s and p. We have been reading the following words: am, sam, pam, map, sap and as. We are becoming great readers. Like in Mr. Gibbs class, Allario was able to read the sentence "A big blue mat" Lily was able to read " I am mad". Ava was able to read the sentence " A big blue map"
So, please, remember to practice the five weekly site words each and every night. It is VITAL to reading success, and as you can tell, Our kindergartners are well on their ways to be readers! Create fun and exciting games or ways to practice these words.
Also, we started our "Reading Buddies" You can tell from the pictures, our kindergartners enjoyed having a reading buddy come and read with them.
As well as our reading buddies, the kindergartners also wrote this week and learning to become successful writers.
We also had another fun week of science experiments. This week we experimented with eggs. On Monday, we squeezed a raw egg and watched as it didn't break. Mr. Gibbs couldn't even break it - and he's pretty strong (ha!). We went through the scientific process and posed a question, make predictions, identified tools, and experimented. We wanted to see if we could turn an egg into a bouncy ball.
Sure enough the vinegar dissolved the shell and the egg could bounce (just a little but it could bounce) the kids LOVED this! We ARE SCIENTISTS and SCIENCE IS FUN!
In Math we continued to learn and practice trapazoids and hexagons.Remember to review all shapes with your child each night. Your child needs to master: circle, rectangle, triangle, square, trapazoid, and hexagon in order to be successful in first grade.
Next week we are learning about Farm Animals. We will be making fun and exciting projects based on Farm Animals.
In Math next week, we will be learning about position words and being critical thinkers solving problems related to position words.
We will be learning about the American flag and the pledge of alligence next week.
On Friday it is Special Persons Day. Your kindergartner can invite a special person to come and have lunch with them. We will be having a lunch in picnic style. You can bring a lunch or you can order cheese or pepperoni pizza from the school cafeteria. Look for a letter this week to give you more details.
Remember to follow the volunteer schedule unless you are told otherwise. Remember to also check your folder for the conference schedule that was sent home last week (Mr. Gibbs' class)
And, last but not least... Mr. Gibbs class celebrated a birthday. Haily turned 5 this week. Her mom brought in yummy cupcakes and we so enjoyed them! Happy Birthday Hailey!
As always, Another successful week in Kindergarten!
Mr. Gibbs and Mrs. Bowden.
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