Our Frist Week!

Hello!

What a great week we have had. We have been busy going over classroom procedures and expectations as well as learning everyone's names! We also experienced a sneaky gingerbread man coming alive in our classroom and running all over the school. We chased him but by the time we got back to our classroom he was already back in his place and he had left us treats! How fun.

Math:

We also explored two math manipulatives that we will be using a lot this year. We played with pattern blocks and unifix cubes. Many children recognized these from pre school! We also made our very first class graph. We graphed our ages. The 5 column had the most and the 6 column had the least. We played our very first math game called Gingerbread Man Roll and Record. Each person received their very own game board and a dice. Each time you roll, you mark with column it goes in. The game is over once one column is full! Many of us were having so much fun that we decided to cover the whole board. :)

Reading:

One of our favorite activities from this week was reading Eliza's Kindergarten Surpirse. It is a story about a little girl who goes to kindergarten and misses her mommy very much! As she goes through her school day, she collects items that remind her of her mommy. By the time the day is over she has made a clothespin doll that looks just like her mom! We decided that we would make one too. We made moms, dads, bothers, sisters, grandpas and grandmas. Everyone can bring this to school and when they miss their special person, they can pull him or her out of their book bag and the person feels right their with them! We read so many other back to school books too!

We started learning a new finger play and glued our first poem into our poetry notebook. Here it is below….

We took pictures but our class camera USB plug is missing somehow so we cannot upload them to the computer! We will be sure to add class photos to the blog next week.

**Please remember a water bottle each day. It is very hot and the children often take sips of water all throughout the day. Thank you for helping us stay hydrated!

Have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz