Happy Valentines Day! The kindergarteners had a great week! On Monday, we received a visit from Olive the Storyteller. She regaled us with stories about friendship, love, and taught us some new finger play songs. After lunch, we were able to see the fifth grade's American Revolution Museum in the gym. They did a wonderful job informing the kindergarteners about this important time in our history. Great job fifth grade!!! Tuesday was filled with hearts, love, and Valentine cheer. During our Valentine festivities, the boys and girls decorated their own Valentine bags, made cute Valentine message hats, and assembled delicious Fruit Friendship kebobs. Thank you for sending in the yummy fruits and marshmallows! The students had a blast!!
In Language Arts this week, the boys and girls continued the fun with Valentine's Day themed centers - Valentine Spelling Sticks, Valentine Beginning Sound Sort, and Journal Writing "Roses are Red". The students picked Valentine themed words written on spelling sticks, and matched each letter with the appropriate clothespin showing the same letter. They had fabulous time working together to find their clothespin letters! At the Valentine Beginning Sound Sort Center, the students needed to find pictures that started with each letter in the word "Valentine". They cooperated as a group to find violin, vacuum, apple, lamp, and many other picture words. The kindergarteners started counting to see which letter in the word "Valentine" had the most pictures under it, or as they said, "which letter had won"! They loved it! The journal writing center allowed the children to explore their poetic side as they thought of people who they love in their lives. They wrote down their ideas to fill in the blanks to the "Roses are Red" poem. Many of them said that they love the people in their family. It was so cute!
In Math, the kindergarteners have been exercising their addition skills. They have been doing an excellent job! We completed their practice pages, and had fun solving problems on our white boards. We have been practicing solving each problem by drawing out counters, and then writing down the sum. They are really getting the hang of it! The topic 6 test is next week.
In Science, the students concluded their unit on the Five Senses with Smell and Taste this week. On Monday, the children were presented with six different smells. Each smell was in a covered container, and the students had to guess what the smell was. They had so much fun trying to decipher each one, and many of the students were correct in their guesses! The boys and girls also learned about their sense of taste. We went over the four main tastes, salty, bitter, sweet, and sour. The students were transformed into "taste testers", and were able to try foods that fell into each category. They then had to describe each food they were tasting as one of the four main tastes. It was fun watching their faces as they tried the each taste, especially the lemon slices! The unit was concluded with a Five Senses Game. Each student cut out the pieces to their game, and played with a partner. They had a spinner, and whichever sense it landed on, they had to find a corresponding picture to place on the game board. If you got three of the same sense in a row, you won! The kindergarteners enjoyed playing it over and over again!
We hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day Week! Enjoy the long weekend!
Reminder: Next week, the students will be attending Ash Wednesday Mass instead of the usual Friday Mass.
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