Ss is for Silly Scarecrow!!

This week the Kinders focused on the letter Ss.  We identified the letter and sound at the beginning and end of words. 

We read a story called The Silly Scarecrow. To go along with the story we made our own silly scarecrows out of the letter Ss! 

One of our handwriting activities we did this week was a monster writing!  We read a story about Little Bear's first night in his new room.  He got scared a few times but to find out that our mind plays tricks on us.  I don't want to spoil the book! :) It's a good one!

They had to each think of what was under there bed.  We had things such as: stinky sock, mummy, skeleton, tractor and a piece of cheese! 

In Social Studies this week - one of our new vocab words was: model.  We learned that a model isn't the actually item.  It is a copy of something.  We played with a model jungle, town and farm! 

One of our sight words this week was: purple.  We read the story Harold and the Purple Crayon.  After reading the story we went through and identified the purple items he drew.  They each had to think of one thing that was purple and draw it on their purple circle.   We placed our circles together to make something else that is purple.... grapes! 

Another Halloween story we read for Handwriting this week was Go Away Big Green Monster! This book focused on facing our fears.  They had to pretend that they caught their own little monster in a jar.  They created it, then they had to list two words that described their monster and give their monster a name. 

Letter Ss picture sort in our journals. 

The last story we read this week for Handwriting was about a turkey.  He wanted some candy for Halloween but had no idea what his costume should be.  After reading their story they had to come up with a costume for their turkey and finish their sentence.  They turned out awesome! 

Is it Living?

This week we continued learning some of our ABC's.  Our reading story focused on letters Oo-Ss.  We started off our day by learning the letter Oo. We used Cheerio's to put in words that started with Oo.  We continued the day finding words and learning to sound them out that started with out.  

We also learned about the letter Pp.  We read the story, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.  We went over the sound the letter Pp makes and listened for words that made the sound at the beginning.  We made a list of those words to use with our Pp craft.  

We made pancakes, added our syrup and they had to sort the pictures based on if they made the 'Pp' sound at the beginning.  If it made the 'Pp' sound they glued it onto a yellow square which we used as our butter to go on our pancakes.  

In Science we learned about living and nonliving.  We started off the unit by going through a power point and guess if it's living or nonliving.  We went over some of the things we thought living things needed. 

Our song that we learned to help us know if it's living or not. 

 

We sorted living and nonliving pictures and put them into our journals.  

One of our sight words this week was 'little'.  In our journals they wrote the word and then had to go through some ABC sticks and find four 'little' letters.  

Learning to pattern by working in some math centers. 

Another letter we focused on this week was the letter Ss.  We listed some Ss words and found/listened to where the Ss was at.  

They each got four yellow strips.  They had to write one word on each of the strips.  

We used those strips to put onto our letter Ss snake.  

Center time: 

Stamps

coloring

pattern building

Journals:  making a pattern