Getting In The Groove!

Happy Friday Rainbow Valley Families!
The children are slowly but surely getting into the daily routines. I can't believe we just completed week 3!!! 
Our focus continues to be reviewing and practicing appropriate classroom behavior.  Many of our kindergarten friends are moving their stars each new day. When a student reaches ten they visit the treat bin!  
One way that we worked on being Bucket Fillers was during reading time.  We learned and practiced Think, Pair, Share.  The children were given something to think about. We paused, closed our eyes and thought. After a few minutes we paired up.  Right now the teachers are doing the pairing, and practiced having an appropriate conversation.  We took turns speaking in a clear voice and made eye contact with our partners when we were speaking.  

Pair up

Share

This week we worked on learning our color words and 3 star coloring.
We practiced each day learning the poem Rainbow Hair. We are working on one to one pointing when we are reading. Each day a student was the pointer.  When you are reading at home encourage this one to one practice. 

Ask your child to share with you Rainbow Hair

 The children worked on journal writing. We learned how and why it is important to label pictures.
We visited our adopted summer tree and observed what attributes it has.  We recorded our finding in our readers workshop notebooks.  We will refer back to this when we move on to the other seasons and discuss how the tree changes over time just like we do. 

Today, Mrs. Mack came to visit us and share her gifted lesson.
We read Q is For Duck.  WHY YOU ASK??? Because they QUACK!
The children were asked to come up with their own.
Some really cool ones that our kindergarten friends came up with  independently were B is for dog because they have lots of bones.  U is for bird because they fly up in the sky. 

Mrs. Mack

 Thursday was our first visit to the computer lab.  Ms. Teri is our computer resource teacher.  We will visit with her for lessons every other Thursday.  Mrs. Stinard and I will be team teaching technology lessons with her.
This week the children played a number counting game called Paint Splat.  If you visit the John B. Dey webpage there is a link that you can click on and play at home. This is great for using the mouse properly, counting, and identifying numbers.  By the end of the first grading period your child should be able to write, count, and identify numbers 0-20 in and out of sequence.