Wacky Week: Day 2

Another minumum day, due to Parent-Teacher Goal Setting Conferences.

We started our morning by taking a look at all the upcoming events in October: Pumpkin Fest, Birthdays, Halloween, etc. We also read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

In Readers Workshop, students were instructed in using illustrations as a tool to aid in comprehension. Using this, they worked independently and examined illustrations in various Golden Books.

For math today, the children were given an opportunity to first do a taste test of three colors of Apple: Red, Yellow, and Green. After tasting the apples, they were asked to go back to their seat and draw their favorite color apple. After they completed their drawings, they cut and placed them on a classroom graph. The results were the 5 students enjoyed the red apples the most, 6 students preferred yellow apples and 6 said their favorite was a green apple.

After recess, we made our second entry in Science Notebooks. This page was titled "Parts of an Apple". Students built an apple using several patterns on construction paper and labeled the parts (which were previously presented on the apple poster): stem, leaf, skin, meat, core, seeds.

This afternoon in computer lab, students chose a game from Jumpstart Kindergarten that required students to use left and right arrows on the keyboard to line shapes up in corresponding colors.