Haglin's Kindergarten Patchwork Pals: Week 3

It's hard to believe three weeks have passed already in our Kindergarten year! The students are really settling in and beginning to get into a routine. Our typical daily schedule looks like this:

Welcome Meeting

After finishing Welcome Work at the tables, we meet together at the large rug. The students help me read the Welcome Message. We use this time to closely examine a written text - this message - and notice things such as words, sentences, and punctuation.

Math

We have been focusing on counting. This is fun and easy to practice with your child at home. Counting to 20 is a good goal to begin with, and counting to 100 (by ones, twos, fives, and tens) is a goal to work toward as the year continues.

Our "counting box" has a different number of blocks in it each day.

The students take other items and make a set with the same number as our counting box.

They also practice this concept at an independent learning station where they count the blocks in a "counting box", then make a set of buttons with the same number.

Another way to practice counting is with number cubes. Students roll the number cube and color the section of the paper that matches. This is a fun and independent station during math.

Sorting objects is a Kindergarten math skill and helps students to practice noticing details, similarities, and differences. This station is for sorting buttons.

Reading

Students continued to practice Read to Self. Our longest stamina this week was 3 minutes. This was our very first stamina goal, and we were thrilled to achieve it! To celebrate, we had a dance party with this song (click here to listen):

Hamster Dance

Our Read to Self Stamina Graph

Self Directed Learning

Do we still play? Yes. Yes, definitely. Imagination and exploration are such an important part of your child's learning. We make sure to take time for play near the end of our days.