It has certainly been a busy week in Kindergarten! We shared a lifetime first on Monday with the solar eclipse.
Then we shared some Kindergarten firsts with Chromebook center this week. Your kids are becoming pros at using their clever badges to log-on to technology and are doing a great job navigating our beginning websites independently. Right now, we are using starfall.com and abcya.com as our go to websites. These are both free websites that are super user friendly and ready to use at home. As we become more independent and confident with the technology in our classroom, we will begin to add additional websites that will require a specific student login. I will make sure that everyone has that information as we introduce it.
And...we began our Farm Unit this week! (This is one of my favorites!) Students have been busy using their "Eagle Eyes" strategy to help me read some Kindergarten greats that take place on the farm. We have been reading I Went Walking and I Went Visiting by Sue Williams along with some old favorites like Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Down on Grandpa's Farm.
After reading Margaret Wise Brown's Big Red Barn we decided to use our imaginations to create our very own barns that could hold one our favorite farm animals. Then, just like Margaret Wise Brown and Sue Williams, we wrote some words to tell our readers what they could see in our barn.
But our farmyard fun did not stop there! Ms. Cari helped everyone make a special farm animal animal of their own.
We engineered our own farms with blocks.
And we even made a barn you could eat!!
Be on the look out for more farm fun next week!
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