Happy Monday!

Reminder:

Tomorrow is our word study mini-workshop @ 10:00 am in room K-2.  This is just for parents.

Happy Monday Rainbow Valley Families!
Today we continued to learn about the first of our Seven Habits-  We read a story called Bored, Bored, Bored. We discussed how we are responsible for our own choices. Your children shared all of the different places where they can practice being proactive. Some of them said: the mall, at home, at the grocery store, at church, in the hallway at school, in the library, in my yard.  Please encourage being proactive at home.  Remind your kindergartner that he/she is responsible for their own fun and learning.  
We made connects as we read today.  For example:
"I went to my friends house and they weren't home."
"I say things are boring and my mom said its' not nice to say that."
"I get mad sometimes just like Sammy."

Math is where its at! We are spending a good amount of time each day working on one to one counting.  We are currently using unfix cubes, then our beaded number lines, and once the children have progressed we will move on to a tool called a Rekenrek.  We progress in this manner as we want to do what is the most developmentally appropriate based on your students needs.  There is not a one sized fits all approach however, the progression of tool choice matters.  

Everyday we are working on counting on using ten frames.  

I use a site called http://www.dreambox.com/teachertools

A more "advanced" counter will see the top row filled in and say 5 and count the remaining circle 6,7, etc..

Someone said today, "I know there are 9 because one less than 10 is 9 and one box is empty." WOW!