This is Mr. Bones! He's been visiting our classroom to help us learn about bones. He seems to wander around at night because every morning he is in a different crazy costume!!
We learned how bones heal themselves, and since Mr. Bones was missing his kneecap, we gave him a cast!
We are doing some great Halloween writing! The kids and I listened to the song Witches Brew and brainstormed some ingredients for our witches brew. Then we wrote about it, using kid spelling! It was so much fun!!!
We also did a fun writing lesson based on the book "The Squiggle" by Carole Schafer. Here are some of the creative things that we turned our squiggles into. We will do this activity again, and develop into writing full sentences and stories about our squiggles as the year goes on. It might be fun to try at home, as well!
In math we are making great progress! We continue to use hands-on tools to reinforce their skills. Here the kids are playing dice games, practicing adding and counting.
We always have counting blocks, counting teddy bears, etc. available to help kiddos see their math in a concrete way. They have gotten REALLY good at using these! If your child is bringing math homework occasionally, using "things" to help show what they are learning will be a huge help when you work with them!
This was the last week of our KinderTech STARS class! We have just had so much fun learning about computer coding with our ozbots and beebots! The kids are also very competent now at logging in to their online programs independently.
New STARS classes start on Monday for Quarter 2! That means in the afternoons (except for Wednesdays) from 2-3pm the kids will be in the STARS classes that they signed up for. If they did not return their preference sheet, they were assigned according to the teachers' knowledge of their interests. All the Kinders were in my STARS class first quarter, but this quarter they will mix in with the other K-2 kids during STARS time.
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