Mrs. Wilkinson's Kindergators: 01/20-24/2020

This week in reading we read Snowmen at Night. We discussed the parts of the book, the characters and setting. Students had to put the story in order of how it happened. They got to draw their favorite part of the story (what the snowmen did), and what they would do if they were snowmen. And we finished up with them continuing with what they would do if they were snowmen at night and they had to give two reasons why they chose what they did.

In math this week we continued to work on our math journals. We worked more on shapes, and measurement. We graphed our favorite winter activities and identified which had the most/least. We reviewed numbers that come before and after, as well as which is more or less. We even started to add a little bit. We will continue working on adding next week!

We are also continuing to work on counting to 100 by ones and tens. I let the class know I would be making a counting to 100 (by ones, tens, and fives) chart this weekend and when someone is able to count to one hundred fluently by ones, fives, or tens they would get to put a sticker on the chart. Our goal is to get everyone counting to 100 then having a party! I told them to practice at home as well. You can check out Jack Hartmann's videos on counting to 100 by ones, tens, and fives, they all really like them.

In writing this week we worked on sounding out words. We all seem to be struggling with it. I am telling them that I do not care that they spell the words right, but I want to see the sounds they hear in the words. I tell them to say the word really slow and hear each sound. We also worked a little more on writing sentences and knowing that letters make words, and words together makes a sentence, and we need spaces in our words, and punctuation at the end.

We started our January STEM project today. We are making a map of the school from a bird eyes view. Then they will have to decide the fastest escape route from their map. They will program a Bee Bot or a Coding Mouse to get out of their map. We looked at our escape route map from our classroom, and they brainstormed on what they thought the school looked like from a birds eye view. Then they had to draw what they thought the fastest escape route would be. Then each group got a sheet of chart paper with two stickers on each end for doors. We discussed how our hallway is long with doors at each end. Then we took a walk down the halls and found other hallways with doors and put them on the map, along with stickers for the doors. When we come back on Monday they will decide as a group which route they think is the best, then predict what they have to program on the Bee Bot or Coding Mouse.