tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55495426674524101312024-03-13T02:26:31.764-07:00St. Andrew KindergartenSt. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-79867065068300599322018-04-22T22:46:00.003-07:002018-04-22T22:59:04.105-07:00Savanna Investigation<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, maybe more inside than out!</span></div>
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As is customary when we begin a new investigation, we brainstorm about what we already know and what we want to learn about the subject. This time, we recorded our ideas on a web and continued to add to it as we discussed savanna animals and their habitats in more detail. </div>
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Our Kindergartners were curious and eager to dive in further. Where is the African Savanna? Where is AFRICA in relation to where we live? We read many books and looked at a globe to find answers.</div>
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We talked about what the savanna looks like and what animals live there. We worked collaboratively to create a savanna mural, painting the sky, adding grass, then trees and animals over a period of days.</div>
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Some were even inspired to make individual murals!</div>
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We had the opportunity to learn more about savanna animals through looking at books, observational drawing and painting, measuring and comparing the size of various animals, and making animals out of clay. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We love this process of learning as there are so many ways for each child to connect to the topic in a real and authentic way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(As you can imagine, we had many lions and cheetahs running on the playground throughout our investigation.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After exploring savanna animals for a couple of weeks, we were paired up to begin our animal reports. Each pair had to work collaboratively, which led to listening to one another, showing patience and compromising as needed. We were very proud of how they worked together to not only agree upon an animal, but to research information, write it down, draw and paint their animal, then organize the information onto a poster. </span></div>
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St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-11875052173043918362018-02-28T19:56:00.001-08:002018-03-02T09:49:45.947-08:00"It's All Good!"<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of our favorite series of books is the beloved "Pete the Cat" books by Eric Litwin and James Dean. We enjoy the fun illustrations, the predictable text that helps us join in and read along, the funny things Pete say and does, the songs he sings, and his laid back attitude, taking everything in stride. (You can watch a live version of the author reading and singing "Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes" at the following link: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> )</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Practice math skills using groovy buttons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read and write color words</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Write about the shoes WE loved, kind of like Pete with his white shoes. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take a sensory walk with our bare feet, feeling and describing how each step on the path felt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Learn to draw Pete the Cat by following step-by-step instructions</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Put on puppet shows with Pete the Cat and other characters, too.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also learned that we were going to see "Pete The Cat: The Musical" onstage. <i>Live! </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We discussed </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">what happens in a play and how it is different from seeing movie characters or characters in books. There are a lot of elements to putting on a play, both onstage and backstage and way before the show! There are costumes, sets, words to learn... so many roles for many people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day of the play was very exciting. We met in the lobby with our special grown-ups before walking in to the beautiful theater together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After performing, we reflected on how we felt about the process. Some of us felt nervous once we saw the other kids watching. Some said they were nervous, but then the nervousness went away! (These kids are so great about expressing how they feel!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We love what can happen when you start with a simple idea ... "<i>we're going to see the play <u>Pete The Cat</u></i>"... add a few books, a few more ideas, then follow the children's lead after that. As we often say, Kindergartners really can do amazing things! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, we drew our plan for our trap and thought about the materials we would need to build it before getting started. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of our goals in Kindergarten is to install the practice of making a plan for our work, even our play. Mapping out an idea is a very important part of learning how to prioritize, be intentional in our actions, and organize our thoughts and movements. It also helps us gain a sense of ownership in our learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our Gingerbread focus ended with a cook day baking... you guessed it... Gingerbread Man cookies! We rolled and cut the dough, then decorated and ate them once they were baked. We don't think any of them ran away. Taking a bite might have made us sympathize a bit with the Fox in the story. They were delicious! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is so much learning happening when we can "dive in" to a particular focus. Learning math is fun when you are playing a "build a Gingerbread Man" game or measuring a giant Gingerbread Man using various measuring tools. We feel confident as budding readers when we recall familiar text when reading "You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man". We explored our five senses by making a book, creating a page for each sense. We were also engineers, designing and building Lego bridges for the Gingerbread Man to get across the river!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">December also found us getting ready for Christmas, writing Christmas cards and making gifts for our family, building countdown chains, exploring melting Christmas trees in science, and learning about the first Christmas when Baby Jesus was born so long ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This month, our focus has been on Pete The Cat! We look forward to sharing the fun we are having and the learning that is going along with it very soon. As Pete likes to say, "It's all GOOD!" </span></div>
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St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-89031787649684718562018-01-07T23:00:00.001-08:002018-01-08T07:34:31.810-08:00Happy New Year! (Part 1)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow! It feels as though we should be saying "Happy Thanksgiving" or "Merry Christmas", but here we are in a new year already. Here's what we have been up to in Kindergarten in the past couple of months. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In November, we were busy planning and preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast. From start to finish, we decided what it meant to have a "celebration", what we would want to include in that celebration, and got busy making it happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day of our event was exciting. We decorated the Davis room and patiently awaited the arrival of our families. </span><br />
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<br />St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-67077316064512414052017-11-06T18:54:00.000-08:002017-11-06T19:30:49.760-08:00Color Investigation<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last month, we finished our first investigation: an exploration of color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We set out watercolors to explore mixing and observing how they changed. Did we form new colors when we mixed two? What if we mixed more than two? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was fun creating new colors. We decided to freeze some of them in the ice trays we used to mix and save them to paint with colored ice! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We explored color science! We predicted what we thought might happen when we dropped food coloring into milk. Unlike the water, we discovered the colors danced and moved!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We learned about primary colors – red, blue, and yellow – and spent time exploring them further. What happens if we mix two primary colors? What happens if we mix more than two colors? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had ample opportunity to test our theories and find answers through various art explorations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We used primary paints and mixed colors to create a color wheel. After we painted each section, we glued loose parts onto their appropriate section. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also explored a box of 64 crayons and determined which colors belonged where on the color wheel. It’s not always an easy determination when looking at a pinkish-purple or periwinkle crayon! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We spent time talking about the various shades of colors. We examined paint chips and worked to mix paint colors to show lighter and darker shades. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We know that blue and yellow mixed together make green. We know that red and blue mixed together make purple. We learned that adding white or black can change the shade of a color. We took our learning and went on to create our very own colors. We mixed, tested, and mixed some more until our color was finished. After creating our very own color, we gave it a name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> All the while, we noticed the colors were changing all around us outside. We brought some of those colors in to explore and paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got started right away with our learning center routine and have now had several weeks to practice and see how much we can learn during this time. During center time we focus on literacy and math concepts, but also have the opportunity to practice following directions, sharing, taking turns, and working together, as well as independently.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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some time exploring the math manipulatives we will be using this year. Working with unifix cubes led us to counting,
patterning, and using lots of great mathematical language, such as, "you have
three <u>more </u>than me", "mine is <u>equal </u>to hers", "this tower is the <u>longest</u>". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">We are very proud of our Kindergartners and how well they have adjusted to a new routine! </span></div>
St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-72565392226065488572017-09-11T22:51:00.000-07:002017-09-11T22:51:38.647-07:00Our First Day of Kindergarten!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just in case the extent of what you heard about our day was what we had for snack, here are a few photos to give you a peek into our first day together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had our first morning circle where we learned about our weekly jobs and played a name </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">game with Ms. Sara. </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Discovering our community.)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right away, we observed rich conversations, and connections being made. We held a meeting after centers and discussed what went well and what may need improvement. (<i>Creating a sense of ownership in our classroom</i>.) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> How did we feel in each space? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our little group had some great ideas to share.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We found it might not be a great idea for everyone to be in dramatic play at the same time. (There are only about 8 inches in the dramatic play area and 100 in the block area!) 😊What should we do about that? These were the first steps to developing an agreement on how to best learn and be safe in our classroom. (More of that in the coming weeks.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We started working on our first self portraits of the year! Today, we had our upper bodies traced and added details to make them look like us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We even have a friend who's first day of Kindergarten landed on his Birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a great first day in Kindergarten with these wonderful kiddos. We hope that's the story you heard too. 😊</span><br />
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St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-42144083929575324042017-06-10T20:59:00.003-07:002018-02-19T22:30:23.657-08:00What's going on? <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">It's certainly been a busy spring! And here we are, going into our last week of school. Sometimes time flies, and other times, time FLIES! Speaking of flying ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We spent much of April reading about, researching and writing about birds. What amazing skills we covered through this process. We discussed as a group what we knew about birds, then what we wanted to know about birds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We each chose a bird that we wanted to learn more and write about. We looked through books and found the facts we needed to write about where our bird lived, what it looked like, what it ate, and other interesting facts. We illustrated our pages and created a book, which we shared with our classmates and families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We spent time investigating bird nests and bird parts, drawing and labeling the parts of a bird, gathering materials and making a nest, observational drawing and bird painting.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">We made bird feeders and hung them outside our window. We really enjoy watching the various types of birds come around to our feeding area!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We really enjoyed our bird investigation! It even triggered a week or so of more interest in flight and the making of MANY paper airplanes, which carried over to our outdoor learning where we tested their flight capabilities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since we end our day in the outdoors, we rarely share what's happening out there and how much learning (and expending of energy) is occurring outside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">So much teamwork, sharing, imagining and discovery is going on all of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We are busy building and/or trying to break through dams in Colin's creek, creating elaborate games of freeze tag, meals of mud cakes and grass and leaf soup. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We are soothing friends who have fallen down, we are planting a garden and caring for it each day. </span><br />
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month of March our math focus was on learning about Geometry. We had the opportunity to learn a lot of new
vocabulary, not only the names of shapes; rhombus, trapezoid, sphere and
cylinder to name a few, but also words that help us describe shapes like
vertices, edges and faces.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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our shape investigation with a simple question about circles and squares. Can you fill a large circle with small square
tiles? </span> </span></span></div>
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must be some strategy to make this work.
After manipulating the squares and trying various ways, such as building
up and overlapping squares, some came very close. In the end we all came to the same conclusion: you can’t make an actual circle with squares because a square has straight
lines and a circle is a curved line.
This began our discussion on the attributes of two dimensional shapes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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our question was about how many ways there are to make a hexagon using the
pattern blocks. Again, with some
manipulation of shapes, flexibility in thinking and a little bit of
collaboration we were each able to come up with at least six different ways to
make a hexagon. </span></span></div>
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looking around our environment trying to find shapes. It was amazing to see how
many two dimensional and three dimensional shapes we could find in our
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-51108042778493259622017-02-12T23:08:00.001-08:002018-02-19T22:30:23.667-08:00Literacy and Beyond<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From time to time, you may be wondering what's happening on a daily basis to further learning in one specific academic area or another. In this post, we would like to address some of the ways we are diving into literacy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In January, we began utilizing book boxes at one of our learning centers. Every Monday, each student chooses 4 new books at their reading level to add to their book box. As they rotate through centers, they have a chance to read independently or with a buddy, exploring the books they have chosen, or revisiting their poetry folder. </span><br />
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We each know that there are many ways to read, one of which is to look at the pictures and retell a familiar story. We may also look for letter sounds we know, or sight words we have learned.<br />
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We spend time each day during 1st circle learning about the connection between letters and their sounds and how the sounds in words work. It's especially fun to change the first letter of each our names to one particular letter we are focusing on and see how they sound in this new form. We also notice right away when it doesn't change the name at all! (For instance some of our names that start with "C" still sound the same when they start with "K"!)<br />
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Another new addition to our week is Writer's Workshop. After a group lesson in which the teacher introduces the lesson and models writing, students are encouraged to think of an idea for their writing and share that idea verbally with a friend. Afterwards, we choose where we would like to write, sometimes finding a quiet place alone, sometimes with friends.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">During the writing exercise, we work on drawing a picture, labeling, and adding an idea in the form of a sentence. </span><br />
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When the exercise is finished, we have the opportunity to share our writing with the class.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">We especially enjoyed writing about and with our stuffed animals during our Puppy Picnic Day! </span><br />
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... they write and share about Buddy's adventures at home...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are thinkers, readers, writers and speakers, with amazing imaginations and such willingness to take chances and try our best. We have come a long way in the first 1/2 of our Kindergarten year. </span></div>
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<br />St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-21073341766985458922016-11-13T20:21:00.002-08:002018-02-19T22:30:23.645-08:00Where's the math?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Math is everywhere. Sometimes, we don't even realize we're "doing math" during our play. Here are some ways we are exploring math concepts in our Kindergarten classroom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We explore patterns using small parts during our think & learn time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and at the sticky easel using geometric shapes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We scoop and measure, then record our measurements at the sensory bin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we scoop and measure more during cooking projects!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes we work in independent centers, counting and sorting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other times, we work as a group, counting and adding together using magnetic sticks...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">... or rhythm sticks to count the beats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without even realizing it, we might count our friends</span></div>
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St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-74994597162637822462016-09-25T13:12:00.001-07:002018-02-19T22:30:23.690-08:00Perspective<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During our second week of school, we introduced our classroom jobs. We discovered that every week, we will each have a specific task that is our own. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We take a look at the chart each Monday, find our name and decipher which job is ours. Some jobs are familiar, like Line Leader or Bell Ringer. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some are new, like our Photographer job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We got acquainted with our tiny camera, learning how it works and how to take care of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For now, our weekly Photographer is documenting in our outdoor space. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is fascinating to observe each child's perspective. We have only had two Photographers so far, but each perspective has been a little different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Photo Credit: Photographers Cole and Sasha. We look forward to seeing all of our photographers' work in the future! </span>St. Andrew Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579529682613735925noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549542667452410131.post-11042749216484655372016-09-18T21:44:00.002-07:002018-02-19T22:30:23.631-08:00Building Friendships<h3>
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Well, we did it! We completed our first week of Kindergarten, and we bet you had some tired kiddos this weekend! We are so excited to begin our journey with you and your Kindergartner and share with you what is happening along the way. This will be the place where you can see the amazing learning that goes on throughout the week. </span></h3>
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Some of us had a plan in our heads from the beginning. "I want to build a house!" We all found ways to build within the space allotted. Not surprisingly, we used all of our materials in this area!</div>
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After working together in the block area, we reflected on our time and discussed our feelings and ideas. "We built a bridge together!"</div>
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We shared ideas on how to best work together, share, and solve problems. This was the start to our "Class Agreement", which will continue to develop over the coming days. It's so great to see how our community started to develop within the first hour of class on the first day! We look forward to sharing even more of our first week with you very soon!</div>
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