It's time for another day of school. What will it be like?
Our day starts off just like it always does. While we wait for everyone to arrive, we put our things away, order our lunch, and sit at our office to work on handwriting. We all have jobs, and some of us do them first thing in the morning.
After announcements, Mrs. Trammell sings her signal song and we join together at the carpet. Today is a little different because we meet with our Tiger Teams. We wait by the door for our fifth grade buddy to pick us up, and off we go to our Tiger Team.
We worked on writing goals for ourselves during our Tiger Team time. We had great ideas for goals!
Back in our classroom, we gather at the carpet again and do our brain smart start. We breathe, we unite, we connect, and we commit to our classroom promises and goals. Today we reviewed what to do when we're upset. We've been working on that all week. Everyone can get angry, and we're learning how to handle being upset in a productive, helpful way.
Next up is reading workshop. Mrs. Trammell teaches us something new or we review something we have been working on and then we practice reading on our own. This week we've been learning how to have our super powers at extra strength. For example, we can read harder books by really studying the pictures and thinking about all that is happening. We can have extra strength word power when we use the word look to figure out the word looked or looking.
We work with letters and sounds daily, too. We sometimes call this word work, and sometimes we call it OG. For us, it means the same thing. We review letter sounds, read words, and write words or sentences. Today we wrote a sentence. Ask us what a sentence needs.
We wrap up our morning with writing. Today we continued working on sentences by writing what Peter from
The Snowy Day might say. During the week, we worked together on what Peter might be thinking or saying, and we wrote the words on large sticky notes. Then today we each got to do our own in a special speech bubble. We practiced cutting, too!
We line up to wash our hands, and then go to lunch.
After lunch we had indoor recess. Normally we have recess outside but since it was raining, we had a lot of fun inside. Ask us what a favorite indoor recess activity is. (Taking pictures of what's happening is a lot easier at indoor recess--ha!).
Then we have a read aloud. Not only have we been working on
The Snowy Day, but we've also been learning about nonfiction writing with the book
Penguins by National Geographic. We've been learning about headings, pictures, and captions. Sometimes there is a lot of information to take in with nonfiction books, and it helps to know about the features.
We practice our sight words with some special exercises, and then we read some poems. Sometimes we look for those sight words in the poems, and other times we look for rhyming words, specific sounds, or other things. This week we've learned about the -ing sound, and there are so many words that have -ing in them!
Specials is next, and today we had P.E. Ask us about our favorite special.
Math is next. We warm up with singing some songs, counting, and number sense activities.
Today we worked with shapes. We finished our shape snowmen, we looked for shapes all around, and we drew shapes we saw.
After math we did a little social studies. We're learning about neighborhoods.
Whew! What a busy day in the life of a kindergartner! Good thing the weekend is up next.
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