Other Fun Activities

After reading the book It's Hard to be Five by Jamie Lee Curtis each child colored a person resembling themselves. Then, we created a class graph showing weather the children were 5 or 6 years old. After, we worked on making "I notice" statements. We noticed there are 16 children who are 5 and only 1 child who is 6. This graph will be observed through out the year. On each child's birthday, we will move their person from the five-year-old row to the six-year-old row!


On Thursday, we made some yummy applesauce. The children helped prepare the apples for cooking and waited patiently for them to cook. As the afternoon approached, we were all excited about tasting homemade applesauce. Some of us loved it and some of us preferred the store bought applesauce. Next week we'll taste 3 different apples and graph our data.

This week in math, the children were introduced to another work place: Bugs. With the bugs, we counted how many we had before exploring them. We found there were 109 bugs in our bucket! Also in math, we sorted and graphed shapes by name and then by what type of sides they had (curved sides or straight sides). After, we shared what we noticed.

We enjoyed reading the book The Hungry Thing, which many of us noticed it was a rhyming book. Then, we completed an extension activity to the book as a class. In the activity, a script was read to the children and they had to fill in the missing words. Here is an example:

Once upon a time there was a hungry thing that came into Mrs. Read's Kindergarten Class and pointed to his sign that said FEED ME! And the townspeople (the children) said: "What do you want to eat?" "Licken!" And the townspeople said "What is licken?". And a little girl (boy) (the child who has the food that rhymes with licken) would respond: Licken sounds like chicken. Then, the child would bring his or her food to the basket to feed to the hungry thing.

This was repeated until all the children had an opportunity to feed the hungry thing. The children had a blast with this activity and most of them new immediately what would rhyme with the word I gave them. Next week, we'll complete another rhyming activity.

We finally created our classroom rules! Now that our rules are established, we will share our hopes and dreams. We will also give examples of how we are following the rules so that the children understand what the rules mean. We will use role playing as a way of showing how we follow the rules as well. Next week, we'll established a name for our "take a break" desk.