Monday March 3, 2013

This day flew by! We had a great Monday here in Kindergarten! This week we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss week! I have a special activities planned for each day! Today's theme was based on The Foot Book. While we did read several other Dr. Seuss books that is the one our main activity was based from.
This morning we made our Dr. Seuss hats which were a lot of fun! The kids enjoyed making them!
We had our morning meeting and read aloud I Can Read With my Eyes Shut.
We had two center rotations. My two groups read the two books I have selected for the week, worked on sight words, and read Dr. Seuss books when finished!
During Language arts we discussed three word families. They were ock, op, and ot. We will be doing a lot with word families and blends in the next few weeks.
After lunch we read The Foot Book
Music and Movement
Writing time today was spent writing our letters to Kindergarten students at Bittersweet Elementary! The kids had some very good questions for the other Kindergartners to respond to! I was very impressed with their complete sentences and use of punctuation and capital letters! Will be writing to second graders on Wednesday!
We then had recess and our snack time
During our math time for the end of the day we discussed even and odd numbers and what makes them. We discussed how a number that adds itself is an even number (9+9, 5+5,10+10, etc...)
We also had a good discussed about subtraction. We worked together and solving several problems on the whiteboard! The kids did a great job during this time!

To finish the day we made our own "foot books." The kids got to make their own feet. Many did monster feet, blue feet, green feet, polka dot feet, etc.. They had fun coming up with ideas and coloring their feet!
Today was a great Monday and it flew by!
Tomorrows theme is Green Eggs and Ham! I am looking forward to the activities with the kids!

I am not going to send home a calendar for March if you all do not mind. My main homework is the same every night unless I send home an additional worksheet. Please work on math facts for 5 minutes, sentence writing for 5 minutes, sight words, and have your son or daughter read to you for 10 minutes. This 20-30 minute routine will get your child in the habit of doing school work every night and the work done will help them excel here at school. If you want the homework calendar to do those activities as well please let me know and I will get you a copy. 

Have a great evening!
Mr. Schultz
Today's Activities!