Don't forget about our Celebration of Learning on November 17, Friday, right after Community Circle. We are busy completing our book of expedition work and the Buddy Bench for the school.
Mrs. Wertz's Kindergarten Class |
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This week was full of pumpkin fun in Kindergarten. We started by reading a wonderful book called How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara. We then opened our pumpkin and scooped out the seeds. The children grouped them by 10's and together we counted the total. Oh, we also predicted how many seeds we thought we would find. We also made pumpkin cookies in the classroom. Such a great math activity measuring the ingredients together. The children enjoyed smelling the pumpkin, vanilla, and cinnamon. Of course we smelled the cooking cookies too and ate them up. We voted on our Jack-O-Lantern face then each child took a turn cutting the eye brows, eyes, nose or mouth. A pumpkin knife is a wonderful thing! Just a few pictures of math centers. The children love dice games. My favorite this week was one where you start with 20 cubes in groups of five. Then you roll a die and remove that number of cubes. The child must then count the number of cubes remaining and write the number on a dry erase board. You could play this game at home with anything; coins, pasta, goldfish crackers. It is fantastic when the children look at the 2 groups of 5 on one stick and 7 more and automatically say 17. We have started our next unit in writing called Informational Writing. We accomplish this in Kindergarten by writing How-to books. We begin by thinking about what we are experts on, for example; soccer, ballet, making pancakes, running, reading words, the list is endless. This time of year is perfect because we have already learned How-to Carve a Pumpkin and How-to Make Pumpkin Cookies. This week we will add How-to Make Butter and How-to Make Stone Soup. We will be reading and comparing many versions of the story Stone Soup. On Friday we will cook Stone Soup in our room. I will be sending a note to some of you to send in an item to add to our soup. Thank you for your help with this endeavor.
Don't forget about our Celebration of Learning on November 17, Friday, right after Community Circle. We are busy completing our book of expedition work and the Buddy Bench for the school.
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About meI grew up in Florida and have lived in Decatur since arriving at Agnes Scott College to get my Mathematics degree. After teaching High School math for a few years, I worked at preschools while raising my 3 sons. I obtained a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education and taught in Dekalb and Gwinnett Counties for 10 years before coming to Westchester when it reopened in 2013. Archives
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