Color Week: WHITE

Today was an eventful and action-packed day! We started the morning reading Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?. After reading through it one time, the class joined in making animal sounds for the corresponding pages. (very fun)

We continued the morning with a large project: making a color book. Students cut and pasted the appropriate color names on the corresponding color construction paper. These will be bound and students will keep these in class to use as a resource for several upcoming projects before bringing them home.

Today, we also started Social Studies. Our first lesson was on Rules. What is a rule? Why do we have rules? What rules do we have? During the lesson we had group discussion, watched DVD clips that accompany our text, and made lists on the white board. The children REALLY enjoyed the video and I think that we have a grasp on what a rule is and why they are in place (to keep us safe).

After lunch we made our first visit into the Computer Lab. Children got acquainted with the computers and their parts (monitor, keyboard, mouse, headphones) and were shown how to type their names to get into Jumpstart Kindergarten. They were introduced to and spent the time playing a game which involves ordering Nesting Dolls .

Finally we started our Math Unit on sorting by working in groups to sort linking cubes by color. Students showed interesting methods for organizing their sorted cubes and seemed to understand the task and enjoyed using the manipulatives.