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Throwing Kindness!

1/24/2017

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The Kindergartners have embraced a new motto for the rest of the school year. We are going to throw kindness around like confetti!
This means that wherever we go, we are going to leave little traces of kindness. We will spread it as far as we can. From smiling at someone in the hallway, to helping clean up a mess that you didn't make. We have discovered that we can leave kindness everywhere!
  To double check on our motto, we decided that we should take the opportunity to see what happens when we throw confetti! It was the start of a wonderful tradition in Kindergarten and we discovered that our confetti landed everywhere around our room! 2 days later and we are still finding pieces of it hidden throughout our room!
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Koo Koo Kangaroo!

1/17/2017

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​   The Kindergartners love GoNoodle. It is a wonderful way for us to get a few wiggles, sillies, and energy out when we are transitioning to a new activity. One of our favorite part of our brain breaks with GoNoodle are those that involve Koo Koo Kangaroo and their songs.
  Koo Koo Kangaroo recently visited our school and the school had a giant dance party! When the Kinders saw them, they were starstruck, bubbling with excitement and energy. 
After, we were able to meet them, get a picture, and thank them for coming to our school! When we returned to the classroom, there were several comments ranging from "This is the happiest day of my life!" to "Miss Keenan, I didn't know that they were real!"
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Snowball Forts and 3D Shapes!

1/9/2017

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    In math, we have been learning all about the different types of shapes, both 2D and 3D. 3D shapes can be pretty tricky to grasp the concept of so the Kinders were challenged to put their knowlege of 3D shapes to use! 
    They were each given a cup of marshmallows, a handful of toothpicks and a challenge...to build the highest, most stable snowball fort possible. 
The Kindergartners quickly discovered how easily it was to create cubes, pyramids, and even rectangular prisms out of the materials.
 By the end of our STEM activity, there were forts that were over 12 inches tall! At the end of the experiment, I had several Kinders commenting on how this was their favorite science project yet!
It is amazing what a group of Kindergartners can create with some problem solving, 4 bags of mini marshmallows and 1,600 toothpicks!
Take a look at a few of their creations!
 
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Our Book Bags!

1/4/2017

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When January approaches, each Kindergartner is given their very own book bag that follows them to school and home each day. With the amount of tools and things that are in the book bags, here is a quick peek and let you know all of the wonderful things that is in it! When the Kindergartners bring home their book bag each night, it is a chance for them to read to families, practice reading strategies, and continue to master their sight words!
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Each Kindergartner gets a different book or two each week in their book bag, This is the book that we are reading at school, in our reading groups. Some of the words, phrases, or books may be slightly challenging for the Kindergartners, but that is good! If they are coming across a word that they are struggling with, the best thing to do is remind them to use their reading strategies. If they continue to struggle, sometime you need to help them with a word or so. It may be a sight word that we haven't learned yet or a name that does not make sense. They'll have one book from school in their book bags each week but please feel free to read books from home as well! 
Our reading strategies!

Since I mentioned using our reading strategies, it's important that I also introduce them. In each book bag, there is a bookmark with all of the different reading strategies that we use in Kindergarten. Try asking your Kindergartner about which ones they know and how they help them. It can be helpful to have the bookmark out when they are reading since it is a quick reference and reminder for them. We have not learned all of them yet, but will as the year goes on!
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Our Sight Words!

Inside our book bag there is our sight word fluency book. This is organized into 12 lists, with 10 sight words on each list. These are the sight words that we are going to be learning over the course of the year. You'll be amazed at how much practicing sight words can strengthen reading skills. Please pracitce the current list (or 2 if they would like) that you Kinder is currently on. Once they have mastered a list, I assess them on it and then they get to put a sticker over the list number on the cover and "level up". It is a fun way to motivate them to practice their sight words and fluency. Please do not feel that you have to practice all lists (they are designed to be practiced one at a time) and feel free to pracitce sight words in other ways. Building them with play-doh, rainbow writing them, making sentences with them, or even finding them in books. 
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Our Word Work Notebooks!

These are our word work notebooks. In them is the work that we do in reading groups. We work on everything from rhyming, to word families, to learning new blends. If they want to work on different things in their notebook, that is great! Feel free to use it for sight word practice, writing sentences, or anything else they would like to practice. 
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Over the course of the year, there will be additional things added to the book bags but this is what we are starting with! Kinders will need your help with making sure that the book bags return to school each and every day! As the year goes on, it would be great to make this the student's responsibility but they will need a lot of help at first remembering. I gop that you enjoy the book bags just as much as the Kinders!
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