Holidays Around the World!

Happy Holidays! In December we enjoyed fun events, including Holidays Around the World and Holiday Pajama Day! During Holidays Around the World, we traveled to different countries, which were set up in kindergarten classrooms. We traveled to Mexico, Germany, and Sweden! During reading, we have been using the questioning strategy to strengthen our comprehension. During Writers Workshop, we wrote about small moments by using our five senses to recreate an experience. In math we practiced adding and ordinal numbers.

Adding with blocks

A student modeling her small moment during the Writers Workshop mini-lesson

We recreated a small moment in our minds and wrote our "magic message"

Following the pointer with our eyes as we read

Using magnets to create meaningful sentences during word study

Creating rhymes!

Using words from our magic messages to create meaningful sentences during word study

Group two during word study is matching and writing sight words

Group 3 during word study is reading sentences and circling the sight word

Writing a story in the Writing Center

Watching The Polar Express and eating treats on Pajama Day

Learning about Santa Lucia Day in Sweden during Holidays Around the World

We read about Toot and Puddle and they taught us the best gifts are ones we make with love!

We learned all about Santa Lucia Day!

In math we learned about ordinal numbers and created reindeers during a guided math center.

Rudolph is 1st, Dasher is 2nd!

Happy Track-In!

Before we tracked out, November was full of new learning! In our math centers we practiced number recognition, adding numbers, creating more complex patterns, and graphing. Our writing is becoming more detailed, as we are adding verbs in our writing. On Fridays we are even planning our own Reader's Theater play in guided writing groups! We look forward to learning about Holidays Around the World in December!

We are adding using counters!

We are using the "Give Me Five" graphic organizer to plan our Reader's Theater Play, focusing on building characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme

Our writing responses during Guided Reading

Practicing patterns in Math Centers

Practicing adding in math centers

Practicing number recognition in math centers

Practicing graphing in math centers

We learned a beautiful poem for Thanksgiving and visualized all the things we are thankful for. Then we turned our visualizations into paintings!