Sh, Ch, and Th chalk talk

We have been focusing on the "h" brothers, Sh, Ch, Wh, and Th and the sounds they make. After much discussion these readers and writers worked to create charts recording pictures and words that have the beginning sound that their digraph represents.

Point out these sounds when you are reading with your child. These are tricky when it comes to reading and writing!!

Math Centers

"Count The Room"

Mathematicians searched the room for cards that had a certain number of objects. They found the picture on their recording sheet and wrote the number of items represented on the card. They LOVED searching for the pictures!!

Number writing practice. As these books come home please look through them with your child. Ask your mathematician to explain their work and help him/her to fix any errors :-)

"Teen Dino Match"

These mathematicians are working to solve combinations of 10+ ___= (a teen number).

For example, when given the card 10+5 they were to use unifix cubes connected in a tower of ten along with single "ones cubes" to figure out the teen number card to match the equation (15). The concept of teen numbers being "ten and some more" is  huge in kindergarten. I will send this game home as a "take home game" that is to be returned after having it for a day. It will be passed on to different families.

Here you see mathematicians working to add colored hearts. They are to write the number sentence to match the picture. These thinkers also had to solve number sentences such as 2+3 and color the matching number on the recording sheet. As these sheets come home as him or her what two numbers were put together to make the number colored in.

These mathematicians worked to graph objects and colors.

Remember to ask your child to explain their work as it comes home.

:-)

We will continue with these same centers next week before moving  on to 100s day work.

Valentine's Day Fun!

Making "I love you!" strips. Here you see us cutting hearts and gluing the words in order to create this special message just for you!

Sorting, counting and graphing candy hearts while focusing on color words to record!

Fruit Salad!

Fine motor work and creativity at work as the bracelet making goes on!

Tracing and cutting hand prints is so much fun! Then folding them into sign language to say "I love you!" makes this work so special!!

And, of course, what's a Valentines Party without opening the Valentines??

What a fun day!

Thinking and Learning Time week of Feb. 11

Scientists continued to use ipads to study animals and record new learning on Non-Fiction note taking sheets. I hope your learner was able to read you some facts as their notes came home!

Readers worked to circle "heart words" in these little books. When we work on little books during thinking and learning time these readers keep them in their shopping book bags to practice during Readers Workshop.

Your thinkers continue to work to build 'CVC' (consonant, vowel, consonant) words. As these come home ask your child to tell you the sounds in each word and blend them together to say the whole word.

Our writers worked to make Valentine Cards for our special staff here at Spencer! Mrs. Fleet, Mrs. M., Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Berry, Mrs. Brick and Mr. Renner each had bags for Fawn Friends to mail their special messages. We took the bags to these wonderful members of our staff today. I know they appreciated all the hard work that was put into them!

Answering our question...How can we help the animals at Spencer School survive??

Living things need food, water, shelter, and air. The environment provided the shelter, water and air. We discovered that there is one thing lacking... FOOD!! We can create feeders!
Take a look!

Stringing cheerios on yarn to hang.

Spreading Crisco on bread and pressing Cheerios and popcorn into it.

Cutting apples and oranges and stuffing them with bird seed.

Spreading Crisco on ice cream cones and rolling them in bird seed.

Filling hollowed out potatoes with bird seed.

After doing all this work, we took our feeders outside...

Can't wait to head back tomorrow and see what's left!