We are a blogging classroom and I LOVE IT! 

Kidblog is an educational blog site that has been developed for teachers, by teachers. Using Kidblog, teachers and students can create conversations on the web. The children will be blogging their responses to different activities in the classroom from time to time. I encourage you to log on to your child's blog page and read what they have blogged so far. You should have received information this week from me guiding you through the process of logging on to and accessing our class blog. Several students have already blogged from home about their adventures and/or simply made a comment.  Please encourage your children to keep on blogging! I'm eager to read what they have to say.

Can you believe that your little one has been a kindergartener for 100 days?  It is at this time of year where I can see all the dots being connected. Your children are starting to take all the information given to them so far and make fabulous connections.  Their reading and writing is becoming more fluent and their confidence is making them eager for more. 100 days is a wonderful and fascinating time in kindergarten, so why not spend the day celebrating. The children spent the afternoon creating, discovering and investigating 100!

 

 

 

 

 

Describing Me

We spend most of our year learning about nouns and verbs, but what is an adjective and why is it important? The word adjective & it's meaning can be very intimidating to a kindergartener;  a  word that describes a noun that makes writing and reading so much more interesting. However, I have found that the easiest and most successful way to introduce adjectives is to have the children describe something they know everything about...THEMSELVES.  The introduction to adjectives was simple...the children were asked to tell me about a lollipop and we listed all the describing words on a chart. Then during the week we moved forward by filling in our own charts that described us. After conferencing throughout the week with each student, we were finally ready to write a paragraph about who we are using adjectives. I was so pleased with the results that we created covers for our writing and laminated it into a book. We will share our All About Me books with each other during Read Across America Week.

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The H Brothers

 

Charlie, Theo, Whit, and Sherman became the newest members of our class this week. The story of these four brothers is a fun way for the children to remember the H digraphs: wh, sh, ch, and th. We spent a great deal of time working with these digraphs and we will continue to do so throughout the remainder of the school year.

 

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President's Day

 

The question of the week was who is our President of the United States (POTUS) today and who came before him? Most of the children were able to answer Barack Obama to the first question, but only a handful could name George Washington. So for President's week we read several nonfiction books about the lives of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Using our map of the US we were able to see where NJ is in comparison to the birthplaces of both presidents; Virginia and Kentucky. The children were amazed to see just how close Washington, DC is to NJ and how far the states of Kentucky and Virginia are from NJ. As the week went on, we researched a little further into how we choose a new president and what the job of the POTUS entails. So You Want To Be President is a fun book filled with all kinds of interesting facts about all previous 42 presidents. It takes some of the mystery out of the presidency and let's the children know that anyone can grow up to be president. After reading Grace for President, the children were eager to write their own campaign speeches and promises in hopes of being voted class president for the day. On our election day, the candidates stood at the podium and read their promises as we the voters listened intently. Throughout the morning, each student entered the "voting booth" and placed their vote in the ballot box. The votes were tallied at the end of the day and we had a class president for the day: President Adrian.
Congratulations Adrian!!
We concluded the week by creating a President's Day book with each page being a craft about the presidents and symbols of our country. It was a very exciting week for us!

 

 

Ashley Laver @ TPT

 

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