Weather Windows

We had a busy Wednesday in Room 2. We began the day, as usual, with Nutrition and our morning business. At language arts rotations, students worked on creating a "weather window" that depicted activities outside in their favorite weather. The sunny, snowy, rainy, and cloudy scenes look cool!  My groups wrote in our journals about things that we've learned in kindergarten. We're trying to write it in paragraph form with an introduction and conclusion sentence. Hopefully, we will have time to edit it and have a final draft for Open House next week.  The other groups had secret centers.  After recess, we practiced sight words, recited "Wee Willie Winkie," and had math. We did more comparing by height. Students made cube towers with a partner and then ordered them from shortest to tallest.

After lunch, we read "Clouds" and "It Looked Like Spilt Milk." Then students tried to make their own cloud in the sky that resembles something. We had some choose time after so that I could attempt a silhouette project for Open House. For Star of the Week, Boyd brought in some nice family pictures to share. For P.E., Coach Angel had the class play "Throw or Roll Bowling." Finally, at library, Mrs. Singh had the class learn how to use placemarker boards and look at books. Next week we will bring a book to the room, and the week after we will be able to bring a book home. We're the first kindergarten class to start this practice. We're definitely getting ready for the responsibility of first grade!  Then we packed up, reviewed homework, and lined up for home.

Oh, we were thinking about wearing our class t-shirts on Friday for the Walk-A-Thon. If you have it handy, please wear it or bring it to school.  Thanks!