Kindergarten Kapers: Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

It was so nice to see everyone after the break! The students shared about their Christmas holiday and it sounds like they all had a very good time. The students did a great job getting back into class routines and worked hard at learning center time. This week we got to use the gym again, go to the computer lab (two times), had indoor recesses in the mornings and an indoor snowball fight! It was loads of fun for everyone.

Building race tracks! It was a tricky one because the log could fall down on your car.

This city had so many cars in it and at one time a lot of bad guys.

Filling up at the gas station:)

Jumping cars and hoping they don't crash.

Looking for "the" in books. This was the sight word we focused on this week.

C read us the "e" book at the Reader's Chair.

A lot of sorting and patterning and counting going on. The students are doing so well with bigger number counts over 10.

Sorting by color and sharing her rule.

An AAB pattern.

Indoor snowball fight!

Don't worry, we used styrofoam balls. After throwing for a few minutes we had to freeze, pick up two snowballs and read the letter or number on them.

One learning center was creating snowmen out of playdough and taking a picture. Working our fine motor skills.

Snowball cutting. The object was to cut as many snowballs as possible in their group. The students are cutting curved lines very well.

Rolling dice and counting. Most students are working on counting 2 or 3 dice. This gives them practice with 1:1 counting up to 12 or 18.

A family of snowmen.

Building challenge: create a 2 meter tall tower, that will stand by itself. Working on cooperation, teamwork, planning and fine motor skills.

Build a tower game. Working on subitizing, making groups to 6 and comparing shortest and tallest and how you know!

This snowman melted! I love the carrot nose!

Way to go! This group worked so well together!

Fresh snow piles from the bobcat made outside time so fun.

This was a wild animal on the loose!

That is a big chunk of snow.

Puppet show fun.

Exploring snow and water and food coloring.

Water table. Filling and pouring and squirting!

Working on our problem solving strategies. We talked about tallies this week.

Practicing letter recognition and formation.

The students cut so many snowballs. We practiced counting carefully, by marking the snowballs and then compared the numbers to find out which was the most and least. Looking at the number line helped us figure things out. We continue to look at numbers in patterns to figure out those numbers in the teens and twenties.