Centers
As we move into the middle of October students are beginning to work almost entirely independently at their centers for both math and reading. During this time students work on quiet activities while I meet and read with small groups of students. One of those centers is "write the room" where students take their recording sheet around the room to different task cards posted on the walls and write down the word or number on their recording sheet. I have been so impressed with how quiet students are while doing this and how much they enjoy it as well! Another center is doing a quiet task like a writing sheet or stamping. The students love getting to use the stamps! On Wednesday's we have special iPad time that is designated for science. This week students got to explore kid friendly videos about pumpkins! There were videos about turning large pumpkins into boats, how to carve pumpkins and of course how pumpkins grow. The videos were a huge hit and I had students ask if they could watch them again!
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| A student counts out colored counters during math centers. |
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| A student completes the write the room. |
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| A student completes a stamping center. |
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| A student watches a video about pumpkin boats! |
Bat Directed Drawing
At least every other week we try to do a directed drawing in class where I take students step by step to draw a picture. This week we did a bat directed drawing. We start by going through all the steps in pencil. Then this week I introduced sharpies as a way to outline our pictures so we can see them better after we have colored them. Finally after outlining the pictures students were able to use oil pastels to color in their bats and watercolors to paint the background. We learned a great lesson about what happens when we use too much water in our watercolors as many students had part of their pictures tear! But I also learned that we should probably use a thicker paper when we do watercolors next time :) They still turned out great and the students had a great time making them!
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| A student traces their bat drawing. |
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| A student traces their bat drawing. |
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| A finished bat drawing. |
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| A finished bat drawing. |
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| A finished bat drawing. |
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| A finished bat drawing. |
We are in the countdown to Halloween. I can't believe we are almost 30 days into Kindergarten already but I am loving every minute with your wonderful kiddos!
Smiles,
Miss Adams
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