Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: January 2018

Friday, January 26, 2018

The Arctic

We have been learning about the Arctic along with Mr. E's class. We were very impressed with the size of a polar bears paw, its height and weight. Ask your child to name some animals that live in the Arctic!

Math Games

The children love playing math games and love to lead them as well. Here, we are becoming fluent with 5 partners and 10 partners. A fun card game you can play at home... your child can teach you how to play!

Monday, January 22, 2018

Magnify Monday!

Our "Read to Self" time on Monday's is all about finding "snap" words...words that we can just look at and read in a snap! Words such as I, the, is, it have, of, and... We also have "Read to Someone" on Wednesday and "Flashlight Friday". A fun week of reading in kindergarten!

Friday, January 12, 2018

Can You Catch A Bubble Without Popping It?

YES! With a mitten or glove! We grew curious after Elliana shared her science book! We bundled up and went outside when it was super cold to see what happens to bubbles in the winter AND if we can actually catch them. We learned that it is the oils on our hands that cause the bubbles to pop...our soft mitts allowed us to catch bubbles- we also caught bubbles on our jackets, in our hair, and on our hats!

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100th Day of School!

We are celebrating the 100th day on Tuesday, February 6th. We will be completing all sorts of fun math and literacy activities on this day. One activity is “Sharing Collections”. Students are asked to bring in a collection of 100 items. All collections need to be back by our 100th day. Examples of items to collect are:

Pennies, crayons, beads, matchbox cars, lego’s, erasers, marshmallows, toothpicks, pebbles, noodles, paper clips, stickers, goldfish, cereal… the possibilities are endless!

All About Books

Our Animal Research Books are complete! We have included many facts about our animals, used "Kidspirartion" to organize our facts on the computer and used "Kidpix" to make diagrams with labels on the computer. We also included headings, bold print, a glossary, a table of contents page and a "Meet the Author" page. This project came together beautifully as children incorporated technology into their research and final products. We are now experts on many animals!! (and non-fiction text features!)

Adventure Play

One component of our weekly routine is Adventure Play. These games and activities invite children to challenge themselves, practice cooperation, provide opportunities to practice decision making skills, and build upon our classroom community skills.

One of our favorites is called "Car and Driver" where children are encouraged to participate in "challenge by choice". One child is the "car", and may close their eyes for the "challenge", but may open their eyes at any time "by choice". What fun it is to "drive" our "cars" around our classroom!