Mrs. Malueg posted on March 08, 2010 09:02
Kindergarten News
March 8, 2010
Dates to remember
Monday – gym
Tuesday – Mass (we are doing the petitions), book mobile
Wednesday – early release
Thursday – gym
Friday – show and tell
Reading/Language/Phonics:
We worked with the letter ‘x’ last week. I think last weeks letter was the most difficult so far and everyone who had the letter bucket did a great job. Thank you! With so few words that begin with x we worked on words that contained the letter x. Some of the children struggled with the sound that x makes /ks/. In celebration of his birthday, our focus last week was on Dr. Seuss. We worked in great detail with rhyming words. Dr Seuss books are the perfect place to look for rhyming words!
Monday – Cat in the Hat – After reading the story we made our own Cat in the Hat hats and bow ties and wore them around for the day. We worked on fine motor skills and patterning and made some torn paper hats that are now hanging in the hall. We watched the video of The Cat in the Hat.
Tuesday – Green Eggs and Ham – We searched the story for all the rhyming words we could find, our list was very long. We talked about who Dr, Seuss was and what his real name is.. We watched the video of the story and for snack we had green eggs and ham. Many of the children enjoyed the green eggs and asked for seconds.
Wednesday – Horton Hatches an Egg – One Fish Two Fish – After reading the stories we did more rhyming practice. We looked at and talked about Dr. Seuss’ style of illustrating his stories. We watched the stories of Horton and One Fish Two Fish. Lastly we made fish like creatures the way we thought that Dr. Seuss would draw them. They are hanging in the hall on the bulletin board.
Thursday – The Sneetches -The Lorax – – If you know the story of the Sneetches you know that it really talks about being fair to all people no matter what they look like or how they speak. After reading the story we talked about treating every one in a fair manner.
We read the story of the Lorax and watched the video and compared the two. We talked about what the stories ‘lesson’ was and decided together that we need to take care of the earth around us if we are going to live in it. We made our class book this week about that lesson and chose a seed that we would plant.
As you can see we were very busy with Dr. Seuss last week and I was very impressed with the way the children were picking out the stories and reading them to themselves. Dr. Seuss is a great tool for beginner readers because of the rhymes and repetition. His silliness makes the children love the stories.
Math:
We continued chapter 7 and number patterns last week. We continue to practice counting to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s and by 5’s. We count to 20 or 30 by 2’s. Some of the children really have this down pat already! We charted which Dr. Seuss books were our favorites.
Other fun things in class:
· We had our monthly prayer service. This month we are working on being Faithful. Not only praying and attending church but also having faith in ourselves and each other.
· We had our second JA lesson from Mrs. Geiser.
· We are practicing our petitions for Tuesday’s Mass.
· We created x-ray X’s for our alphabet books. Only 6 more letters before we work on putting our books together.
Cat in the Hat day