I just wanted to take the time to share with you some AMAZING homework papers that I have received this week.  These students:

1.  drew illustrations with lots of good details that show what the picture is
2. colored their pictures with wonderful 3-Star Coloring
3.  sound spelled the label for their picture using correct sounds
4.  book spelled the label with parent’s help
5.  printed neatly and made their letters “the school-way”
6.   wrote a sentence on the back (using 5-Star writing) to match one of their pictures
7.   had mom or dad help them fix “oops” like backwards letters or forgetting a capital or punctuation on their sentence

THIS is what BEST WORK looks like in our kindergarten classroom!  Thank you for all the help and support you are giving your child and for making them the best possible learner they can be!  I always tell them…..”The pickier I am, the smarter you get!”.  Thanks for keeping expectations high at home as well!

HERE ARE THE PICTURES!

Here is a link to last week’s newsletter as well: lp-k-news-112216

 

Today we played a +1 pattern game with our 3rd grade buddies!  The students had a paper covered with numbers.  They had to take turns rolling a die (the school way).  They then had to read the number on the die and turn it into a number sentence.  For example, if they rolled a 3…they said “3+1=4”.  They had to find the number 4 on their paper and color it.  If they rolled the die and said the number sentence, but none of that specific number was left, they couldn’t color or “lost their turn”.   They had to keep rolling and saying the number sentences until one person filled up the paper.  They were declared “the winner” and then they got to play again!

Third graders did an excellent job being “teachers” and setting a good example of how to play the game.  Ask you kindergartner to show you how to play at home.  The paper is in his/her folder.  It is easy to make one on a blank piece of paper.  Just copy the circles and the numbers, and have fun practicing addition at home too!

Enjoy the photos:

Here is a link to this week’s newsletter:  lp-k-news-111016

Have a great weekend!

It is ELECTION DAY across the country and in our classroom!  We had lots of fun learning all about how adults vote for our next president.  Our first step to learn how voting works, was to vote for things during learning time…like should we write a “c” or should we write a “k” when we hear that sound.  We raised our hands.  The teacher counted.  And whichever choice won had to be okay.  You were not allowed to complain…as we often say, “You get what you get, and you don’t through a fit”.

Then we read the book Duck for President written by Doreen Cronin.

First Duck wants to be in charge of the farm, then he wants to be Governor of the State, and last he wants to be President and run the country.  Each time Duck runs for office, he wins.  But he also learns that the job is a lot of hard work.  So he ends up returning to the farm and letting the vice president take over.  When we finished reading we discussed what the president is in charge of and how he/she gets elected.

We then spent time reading a Scholastic Magazine titled “Let’s Find Out”.  We learned how a mom reads up on the candidates, goes to the polling place, casts her vote privately, and then learns the results.   So…. we read who are two choices were, we went to the polling place, and we cast our vote privately.

Before reading the results, we again discussed how “sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some” and how it is important for everyone to have a good, positive attitude.  You need to be a good winner (no bragging) and you also need to be a good loser (no complaining).

We had only two choices on our ballot to make it easy to read.  We used our “super reading power” of Lips the Fish to look at the beginning letter to figure out the candidates name.  We then colored in the box.

The result were tallied on the board.

According to our classroom vote: Donald Trump is the next President of the United States of America!

The kids did a PHENOMENAL job being POSITIVE voters!  I hope that they carry this lesson with them through life as they some day will get to vote too.  We ended our lesson with discussing how it is important to vote and that every vote counts…