Saturday, August 31, 2019

Maps and Math Stations

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about location words. While participating in exciting games such as "Simon Says" and enjoying rousing stories such as "We Are Going on a Bear Hunt,"  we practiced acting out "on top of, " "in the middle," "above," "below," etc. Then, we created maps of our classroom and shared where things are located using these words. Finally, we added labels as a finishing touch, so that we could take our maps home and use these words to show our families where things are located in our classroom. Here are some pictures from our amazing map creations.








We also enjoyed participating in our math stations this week. We completed numbers puzzles, read number stories, used pattern blocks to create pictures, sorted dominoes by quantities, practiced counting quantities with game cards and clothespins, and built numbers using play dough. Finally, we began our math small group games with Miss Todd. Ask us about our "Cookies on a Plate" game. So much fun!













Science Tools and Numbers Rule

During these first few weeks of school, we participated in an exciting sink or float experiment where we made predictions and recorded our observations. We learned that scientists are observers and enjoyed seeing the results of our experiments. We have included a picture of our journal entries so you can see how we are being real scientists here at school. We also took time to explore some of our science tools such as droppers, clothespins/cups, paper clips/timers, balances, hand lenses, and magnets. We have also been working hard this week on our numbers 1-5. We have learned a fun song for each number and have been singing away as we learn to recognize, write, and count using these numbers. We even made our numbers out of playdough. Check out our pictures below! Please enjoy our shows from this week. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.







































Welcome to Kindergarten


We have had so much fun these first few weeks of school getting to know our classmates and learning about the special places in our school! One of our favorite activities was hunting for the gingerbread man around our school, as we learned about the different locations we could visit here at Watson. We did not catch him, but we did get to enjoy some of his edible friends that he left for us to snack on. We took some time to get to know our new friends and created a slide show of our pictures, once we each had a chance to take our picture using the Ipad. Please take some time and enjoy our projects from the first few weeks of school. Feel free to leave us a comment and tell us what you think! 

First Day of School




Gingerbread Man Hunt

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