A Windy Tuesday

Today the wind definitely had the kids wound up. :)

Our morning started with our first experience with Writers Workshop. I read the story Down the Road and asked the students think about what the pictures were showing and what was happening along the way. After the story was done, I encouraged the kids to think of something that had happened to them recently and to think about how they would tell that story. We will be jumping into actual "writing" next week.

For Science today, the students were asked to draw a picture of a spider, without having any instruction. Afterwards, we did a pictorial of a spider and labeled parts of its body (Legs, Eyes, Thorax, Abdomen, Claws, Jaw, and Spinneret). We read Anasi and the Moss-Covered Rock and a non-fiction book about Spiders.

For Social Studies, we started in talking about location words (near, far, left, right, under, over, in front, in back, etc.)

In Math we did an introduction to patterns. First we worked together as a large group to build a pattern with linking cubes and then work together to continue the pattern. We used between 2 and 4 different colors to create different patterns. Students then moved back to their desks and work on creating their own individual patterns with linking cubes.

In Computer Lab, we continued to learn more games in Jumpstart Kindergarten. Afterwards we took some time to work on getting to know each other, passing a Hot Potato around while saying each others' names.