Happy Spring! We had so much fun on our first week back together. We learned about the tricky letter W and thought of many things that begin with this letter. Some students still get confused with this one, thinking that W makes a “D” sound and a lot get this letter mixed-up with the letter Y. Something to practice at home!
Our kindergarteners stretched their scientific thinking skills this week, working through their first Lego challenge! This was a hit! Students were given 7 different things to create out of Lego (a house, a flower, an animal, a fruit, a bridge, a tower, their name) and used our iPads to record their incredible creations. There was some amazing problem-solving, creativity and persistence at work here!
Students had SO many stories to share about their exciting spring break adventures and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing every single one. They drew pictures of one special thing they did over the break, working hard to ensure that their drawings represented where they were, who they were with, and what they were doing.
In math this week, students were shown a pile of cubes and asked, “How can we figure out how many of these we have?” This quickly prompted an incredibly rich and enlightening half-hour discussion around numbers. We heard many differing ideas around how to sort and organize the blocks and decided upon building sticks of 10 (a student idea). Another student excitedly shared that if we put 10 of the sticks together, that would make 100. Working together to group and organize the cubes, we figured out that we had 498 of them! Although these numbers are far beyond what students are expected to learn in kindergarten, their interest, engagement and rich discussion throughout this activity made it incredibly meaningful. Afterwards, one student suggested we put all of our 10 sticks together into one big long line. We were shocked to find that our line of cubes ran from one end of our classroom to the other…and even continued out the doorway into the hall!
We had one of the Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse players join us in gym this week! Bobby taught us some great beginning Lacrosse skills. We will continue with more of this next week.
Classroom Reminders:
1. Thank you for your patience with the Volunteer Calendar. It has been a very busy week! I will post new dates ASAP…hopefully this weekend!
2. Scholastic orders are due back on Monday.
Have a beautiful weekend!
Miss Roberts
