Thursday!

Today we had a terrific day! We began our day by going to the computer lab for Rosetta Stone!  We worked more with our counting bears and pattern blocks: counting with one-to-one correspondence to 10 and writing the number 1 with pencils as best as we could! In religion, we discussed the importance of Jesus' name and how it is holy, which is why we do certain things such as genuflecting in the church which we practiced! We visited the library and checked out new library books which was very exciting! The search for 'L' words in the new library books began right away :)

We we were great letter 'L' makers as we worked in our literacy centers making 'l's with different manipulatives!

We reviewed our five senses and how they help us learn.  We made a five senses man to remind us of how we learn: Eyes to see, bells used for ears to hear, cinnamon for a nose that smells, tootsie roll for a tasting mouth, and sand paper arms for our touching hands!

We were also wonderful scientists as we learned with our five senses using apples! We began by making a Venn Diagram to first think of how we could use our senses to work with apples and what we already knew about red and green apples.  We then proceeded to investigate red, green, and yellow apples with all of our senses. One comment in the process of the activities was, "Wow! We really can use all 5 senses with apples!"  We made a graph to determine our favorite color of apple as the last sense we used was tasting the red, green, and yellow apples!

 

In SecondStep Guidance program, we reviewed our rules and how we demonstrate them as we introduced a new puppet: Snail! Puppy and Snail visited our classroom in which we had to use our "attentoscopes" and listening ears and bodies to participate in a "Follow Follow" game in which we only followed Snail's directions as Puppy tried to trick us!  There were defined proud moments of focused attention and great listening skills among the students!

 

It was a great day in kindergarten!

 

REMINDERS:

Tomorrow we have MASS so PLEASE make sure your child is ready and has used the restroom before being in the classroom at 7:45a.m.

 

Safe Environment Training is TONIGHT at 6:00p.m.

 

We will celebrate Mary's Birthday tomorrow directly after mass in the cafeteria!

 

SELL those raffle tickets!!

Please send back Blue Wednesday Folders the following day and all papers that are meant to be sent back!

 

All School Mass at 11:00a.m. Sunday and Food Sale is this weekend!!