What did we do last week?
Writer's Workshop Time:
Every day we do some sort of writing, whether it's copying our monthly themed words down, creating sentences with the monthly words, writing the room or working in our writing journals. The kids LOVE to write. We start with making a picture of something we want to share, we label our picture and then we try to add a sentence or two. We do not focus on spelling, instead we focus on getting our thoughts down. The kids know how to use our two word walls that we have in the classroom to find words they might want to use.
Kids can be found all over the classroom during our writer's workshop time.
Sometimes the kids like to write while laying down on the carpet.
Alex is focusing on his writing and is sitting in front of the SMART board
to find words we talked about.
Nikolas likes to write at his table.
Gabby enjoys writing at one of our side tables.
Abigail and Lillian really like to work together when they do their writing.
Jogathon:
Once a year we have our jogathon. This year we had it on
Friday, November 14. The kids ran laps to earn money for our school. The kids had a blast running. I opted to walk this year.
The kids after the jogathon. They received a sheet with the number of laps run and a little prize.
I forgot to take pictures of the kids running. These pics were taken after they got done.
Nikolas was looking forward to sitting down after his long run.
Miri was running to go sit on the steps after 25 minutes of jogging.
After the kids were done running, the parent volunteers added up the laps and gave the kids a prize.
In this picture, you can see Garrett's parents helping out. You can also see my elbow on the left side. Tyler Phillips our PE teacher took some pics for me since I was too busy walking :)
A big thanks to all the parents who were able to come help out!
Artist in Residence:
Sharon King, our wonderful artist in residence talked to the kids about Frida Kahlo and her use of oil paints. Sharon then showed us a print of the painting "Still Life with Parrot" from 1951. She taught the kids how to make each section of the painting one step at a time. The kids did a wonderful job following directions. I am SO proud of them.
Sharon modeled each step on the whiteboard. This is towards the end of the demonstration.
Alex did a sketch of the watermelon.
Josie and Aiden added color to their picture with pastels.
Miri did a great job adding pastels to her picture and then blending in the colors with her finger.
Cody had fun using pastels.
Alex was very creative with his coloring.
Gabby and Lillian were working very hard at choosing their colors.
Nikolas had fun using the pastels.
Kernan did a great job adding colors to his project.
Buddy Class:
On Thursday, November 13, we met with our third grade buddy class (Mrs. Tubbs' class). The kids interviewed each other to get to know each other and then read books. I cannot post pics because I do not have release forms from their parents, but I am working on that. You should see how the kids worked so well with their buddies. Our kinders felt special having an older buddy and the 3rd graders felt special knowing that they needed to act like role models for the kinders.
