Ducklings and Measurement

Hello Parents! Sorry for the huge gap between blog posts. This spring has been busier than I anticipated! This blog post has lots about our ducks, who will be moving to their new home this next week, as well as a fun activity that students did surrounding our last math topic for the year: measurement.

Duck Fun

Over the past 2 weeks our class has been thoroughly enjoying our 3 ducklings! We have done many activities including comparing ducks to chicks, testing to see what foods ducklings prefer to eat and of course taken pictures with our favorite ducks and writing about our favorite ducks. The kids are constantly sitting by the duck pen reading to them, singing to them and noticing all the sweet features of all the ducks. I have loved watching them being so caring and responsible toward the ducklings these past weeks. It will be sad when they go to their new home on Wednesday.

Students draw a duck and a chick.

Students compare a duck and a chick.

The ducklings sleeping in their cuddle puddle!

Students observing whether students prefer their duck food or lettuce. 

Measurement

This week, while reviewing other math topics, we have launched into our final math unit of Kindergarten: measurement! To start this unit we have been looking at different tools that we can use to measure things. We estimated how tall students in our class were and looked at who was taller/shorter. Then we measured each other with cubes to see if we got the same results. Well surprisingly we found that perhaps some kids counted inaccurately or didn't quite measure each other accurately because kids reported back that our shortest student and tallest student were the same amount of cubes tall! Needless to say we will be revisiting measuring this week to see how we can measure in an accurate way!

These last 19 days of school are going to fly by. But they are also going to be jam packed with learning and fun. Cheers to a great week!

Smiles,

Miss Adams