Kindergarten MP3 Campus

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Topics:

fall, letters, sight words, Thanksgiving, Gingerbread Man

Letters/sounds: Pp, M,m, Cc

Sight words: see, it, can, am, you

Activities:

We have practiced letters, sounds and sight words through worksheets, games, reading poems, stories, and discussions.

We read stories about the fall season and Thanksgiving, students shared things they are thankful for and made Thanksgiving placemats.

We read The Gingerbread Man and discussed characters, repeated words and the ending of the story. Over the next couple of weeks we will read many different “gingerbread man type stories” (the gingerbread girl, the gingerbread boy, the gingerbread cowboy, Stop that Pickle….) and compare the different characters, refrains and endings.

This month’s Center Activities:

Magic pumpkin words (sight words)

Playdough (making letters and sight words)

Writing Pp and Tt

Sensory Tubs: matching upper/lower case letters, beginning sounds

Watercolor paint black glue pumpkins

Pattern blocks – sight words

Matching upper/lower case letters with pumpkin seeds and stickers

Sink or Float experiment

Read, write and smell sight words (smelly markers)

sorting pictures beginning with /m/ or /c/

Some whole group activities included:

I am Thankful Placemats

Turkey hats

Turkey cupcakes

Writing: practicing writing letters with correct letter formation (bad habits are hard to break) We are working hard to always start letters at the top. Letter formation matters, please be practicing at home.

Writing – drawing pictures and labeling, attempt to write sentence if want

Some books we have read this month include: The Leaf Thief, The Biggest Leaf Pile, From Summer to Fall, Fall Weather, Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks, Clifford’s Thanksgiving Visit, Creepy Carrots, Little Red Riding Hood, Swim Fish, A Turkey for Thanksgiving, Elephant & Piggie: I Love My New Toy, Poem: What is it? The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, Who Sank the Boat?, The Emotions Book, The Magic of Letters.

Wiggly songs we have enjoyed include: Slippery Fish, Beanie Bag Dance, Take that Beanbag, Bop Until You Drop, My Aunt Came Back, We’re Going on a Turkey Hunt, Button Factory

We continue to practice learning sign language for each letter of the alphabet.

Phonics: We play some “phonics games” orally for a few minutes each day. We continue to work on listening for beginning sounds in words, ending sounds in words, blending words, rhyming words and counting words in a sentence.

Students completed the Reading and Math iReady assessments.

Topics:

Following rules, “superstar” listening and speaking, Holidays: Thanksgiving

Activities:

Holidays: Thanksgiving- Read stories about Thanksgiving and being thankful, Shared things we are Thankful for, made I am Thankful Thanksgiving Placemats

Listening and Speaking: We continue to practice “Superstar” listening and speaking skills (eyes on speaker, ears listening, mouth closed, hands and feet to self, raise hand for turn to speak) This takes time, as we always have so many things to share, but students are working hard, and doing well! Students shared their Thanksgiving Homework with the class, and practiced using a “just right sharing voice”, they stayed on topic and let their audience see their work while they shared.

Topics:

Seasons: Fall vs summer, Alphabet STEM – P Parachute, Sink or Float

Turkeys

Activities:

Fall: together we brainstormed a list of things we see in the summer, and things we see in the fall. We read, The Leif Thief and From Summer to Fall.

Alphabet STEM – “P” – We watched a short video about parachutes and then students were given pipe cleaners, tape, coffee filters, a small paper cup,

and used them to construct a parachute. Students planned out what their parachute would look like and made a prediction of how many times their cup would land sitting up. I tried to give them as little instruction and direction as possible.

Sink or Float – We read Who Sank the Boat? And Will it Float or Sink? Students made predictions about which of the given items would sink and which would float and then tested their predictions. Many were surprised to find out that pumpkins float and rubber bands sink. Students were introduced to the vocabulary: sink, float, buoyancy and density.

Turkeys: watched a Mystery Science video: What is that read thing on a turkey?, and watched a short video: turkey facts

Mrs. Hays, Campus Kindergarten Teacher

khays@meridian.wednet.edu