Retelling Stories....

We have been learning about retelling stories by talking about the characters, setting, problem and solution in a story.  We have also learned about the beginning, middle and end of a story. We made retell/beginning, middle, end ropes to help us remember the order. We practiced retelling The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs. 

Retell Ropes

Retelling "The 3 Little Pigs" with a partner.

We Love Playing Math Games!

Dice Game

Top-it 

Monster Squeeze! 

Math Computer Games

All Thinks Thanksgiving!

Silly Turkeys!

Counting by 10's Turkeys

Pilgrim Day!
We played games that pilgrim children would have played. 

Pilgrim kids had chores, so do we!

Ms. Roelfs Last Day :(

Today was Ms. Roelfs last day in our classroom. We were so sad to see her go! 
She is going to be a great teacher!

Hugs before leaving

What a nice class picture!

Uh oh!  :)

Playing "Top It"

A favorite game during math time is "Top It"! They have it available on an App too. :) 

We Are Thankful!

Our awesome practicum teacher Ms. Roelfs put together a video of the students reading what they are thankful for.  Ms. Roelfs read books about Thanksgiving and then she helped the class make a list of things/people they are thankful for.  They wrote about what they are thankful for and drew pictures to go with their writing. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrEtL3mmhQ&feature=youtu.be

Check out the video....so cute! 

BOO!

The kids love making little books that they can read.  After finishing our books they took turns reading their books to a buddy. 

Bat Addition

During math today the kids played "Bat Addition". They rolled two dice, wrote the addition problem on their sheet and then covered up the answer on their game board. 

Kindergarten Research

Iowa Core includes a research component for every grade level.  We decided to do some research on bats.  We started by thinking of things we know (or think we know) about bats. (schema) Then we read informational books about bats. We found that our schema about bats was great and we also learned new things that we could list. 
We are working on our own book "All About Bats" that we will share at conference time.

More Text to Self Connections....

The kids love the book "Skeleton Hiccups" so we did a text to self activity about
how they would get rid of hiccups.  We made a list of ideas from the book and ideas of their own. Their skeletons are so cute!

Look in a mirror and scare yourself.

Drink water

Too Many Pumpkins

We read a great book called "Too Many Pumpkins". We learned that adjectives are words we use to describe.  We made a big list of pumpkin adjectives, thinking about different ways to describe the inside and the outside of a pumpkin. They came up with awesome words!

We have also been working on sequencing and retelling. The kids colored pictures of a pumpkin life cycle and then put them in order, in a booklet.  They put a title on the cover and did their own illustration.  We used the the sight words "I see the" to write sentences inside our books.  The last page was for an illustration of their own jack-o-lantern. They had a great time reading them to me when they were done!