Miss Todd's Terrific Team: October 2020

Miss Todd's Family Goat Farm

In an effort to allow our Kindergartners to enjoy a visit to a farm, we invited our Watson Wildcats out to Miss Todd's Family Goat farm for an opportunity to feed our goats and see live farm animals in action. Thank you so very much to everyone who took time out of your Saturday to attend. We hope that you and your sweet Kindergartner had a wonderful time! Here are some pictures and a video from our fun afternoon together:

Goat Farm Field Trip

https://vimeo.com/472015579

The Story of the Todd Family Goat Farm

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NcMoIrHZVMxehuVoVjpDdoBoOJH3ZRbY/view?usp=sharing

STEAMSchool Surprises

We enjoyed another fantastic week of virtual STEAMSchool this week! We enjoyed creating catapults, drawing characters from our favorite stories, and making instruments out of recyclable materials while learning about countries around the world. Check out our fun pictures and videos from our adventures in STEAMSchool this week:

Catapults

Music Around the World

Character Creations

Powerful Positional Words

This week during our Social Studies lessons we have been studying about positional words (prepositional phrases). Through exciting and sometimes silly games and songs we have been learning about over/under/on, inside/outside, near/far, and left/right. Check out our show below and see all the fun things that we have been up to this week. Be aware...you just might find yourself humming along!

https://vimeo.com/472004774

(Featured songs or games include: a rousing rendition of An Inside/Outside game, Over/Under/On, and a chance to kick along to the "Cupid Shuffle" while learning left/right.)

Left/Right

Near/Far

Inside/Outside

Over/Under/On

Properties: A Study of Similarities and Differences

This week we completed a study of attributes or characteristics of an item. We practiced describing an item and finding the similarities and differences between items. You can view our ball description activity where we used describing words to talk about different types of balls. We made a bubble map of their properties. Then, we participated in a mystery box game where the students had to reach into a bag without looking and choose an item. Then, the children paired up and told how their item was similar/different from their friend's item. Finally, I have included a picture of our attribute train activity where our students had to find a shape and tell how it was similar to the shape that the student had laid down before them. They could find it to be similar in color, size, thickness, shape, etc.