Friday, September 5, 2008

This morning we got to explore using our math manipulatives. We used bears, blocks, linker cubes, and pattern blocks. Kevin made neat designs with the linker cubes. Here is a flower made with the pattern blocks. Darren, Joshua, Michael, Sean, Sammy, and Bartosz placed the bears all around their table. There were lots of bears!

We practiced reading a poem for our poetry journals. It was called Welcome to Our Classroom. Different children came up to the Smartboard to find kindergarten sight words that we recognized. After that, we cut out and pasted a copy in our poetry journals. Then we practiced reading it three times.

We also talked about ways that we want to grow and learn in first grade and came up with goals. Isabella figured out that our goals are different because we are different and we all have areas of strengths and weaknesses.
In P.E. we talked about the rules. We also played Skeletons and Mice. People who are the skeletons walk on the gym lines and the mice can run anywhere, even on the lines. If the skeletons tag the mice then they become skeletons, too.

Next week we will start spelling, Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop, and homework! Have a great weekend!