Life as a Kindergarten Student

Friday, January 8, 2016

Testing

This week has been a week of getting back into schedule! We have also started to test the kids for report cards. More testing will continue next week!
Check out how much we have learned so far...

This top picture is of how many uppercase letters the students, as a class, know. The one below is for lowercase letters. The Yellow shows what they students knew at the beginning of the school year. The green shows what they knew when we checked them at the end of 1st quarter and the red shows what they learned in 2nd quarter. Pretty impressive, isn't it! There are not a lot of empty boxes left! Yeah!

The top picture shows how many letter sounds are known and the bottom photo shows how we're doing on learning our numbers 0 - 31. We have some work do to with the teen and 20 numbers:)

Kindergarten Math and Calendar

Here is our update on math...
Our end of unit math test will be next Monday on Geometry! We then move on to fractions and ordinals...I know...Fractions in Kindergarten! Who would have thought?!? While we do our formal math every day, we also work math into our calendar time, which is right after rest time.
Check out the photos below...

Here is our counting person for the week. He is having the kids count by 5s. We are getting great at counting by 1's, 5's and 10's. Soon, we'll be practicing counting by 2's!

Our calendar that we go through each day. We talk about the current date and the dates for yesterday and for tomorrow.

Above is our numbers chart for how many days we have been in school. Day 100 will be here soon!
We also tally how many days we've been in school. It's an easy way to count by 5's!
Keeping track of who lost teeth in each month is also very important this month! Only one person has lost teeth so far!

Last, we add a straw for each day we've been in school to start learning about ones, tens and hundreds and then we add a penny each day to start working on money skills. Every day we discuss how much a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar are worth!

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Sing Along!

We ended our day with a sing along in the gym with all of the students and staff! We sang many of the classics and Mrs. OL and Mrs. LeClaire also did their own version of the 12 Days of Christmas that was fantastic!