Today we worked really hard to do a little extra work in both reading and math in order to not get behind with our field trip tomorrow. The boys and girls have just been having an awesome week and handled the extra workload wonderfully.
During our oral language part of reading, we talked about what it means to describe someone. We discussed how you can describe someones clothes, or physical appearance, interests, or personality. We took turns describing a few of our classmates. We continued working on syllable blending, and most of the students have 2-3 syllable words down ("draw-ing....2!" "Let-ter....2!" "vege-ta-ble....3"). We quickly reviewed r, m, and s. Then I gave the students 3 stations to work through while I pulled others for individual and partner reading enhancement. The students made "Mm," books. They highlighted every word that began with m, then found 3 friends to read to. They did a 'r' activity where they had to decide how many syllables were in the word the picture represented (picture of a rat....1 syllable). They went above and beyond my expectations, as they have been doing all week :)
For math we quickly reviewed the shapes cone and cylinder. Then we revised horizontal graphs using numbers 6-10. The kindergarteners described the graph talking about which tower had fewer, less, or more. How do you know? (taller, shorter, higher, more tiles, etc). They have this down pretty well now!
We ended the day with our last MAP test in the computer lab. Then we came back and read two books by Leo Lionni; Swimmy, and Fish is Fish. We admired his wonderful art work on each page.
Everyone is very excited for our field trip! I'm looking forward to a warm day and an outdoor classroom to learn in tomorrow.