The Snowy Day

Last week, we read about Peter in the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and discussed the main idea and supporting details of the story. The students wrote text-to-self connections about what they and Peter both like to do when it snows.

Measurement

Here are a couple more measurement activities we had completed together in class.

Little Architects

I definitely have some future architects in the classroom!

Recess Time

Kellon made an awesome Lego figure during recess today. We have a lot of talent in this classroom!

Election Day Activities

Although we wrote these Election Day writing pieces a couple months ago, I wanted to share some of the wonderful work that our students had done. The kindergartners made promises of what they would do if elected President.

 

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

All Aboard the Polar Express

This week, we read The Polar Express. On Tuesday, we watched the movie and then took our own trip on the Polar Express.  We heard a whistle blow and someone shouting, "All Aboard!"  We ran to the classroom door to find a conductor waiting to punch our train tickets.  We boarded the "train" in the hallway where the conductor read The Polar Express to us. The illustrations from the book were projected onto a screen at the front of the train.

 

 

Measurement

We have been learning all about measurement the past two weeks. Here we are trying to figure out which window is larger. Emma's window is wider but Andrew's winder is taller. So which one is it? We used 1 inch tiles to figure it out. (The kids didn't even know it, but they were learning early skills for figuring the area of a surface.)