Day 58:@vermontkkids123

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This morning teachers from Burke School visited kindergarten. They were so impressed with the children and their knowledge of the global goals.

The children created a service-learning reflection book and they began working on their research books about rabbits.

 

Day 57: @vermontkkids123

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This morning Ms. Pinus visited kindergarten and taught us about a new App called: "ChatterPix." We are exploring this App because in January when we explore global goal #14 Life Below Water we will be using this tool as a way to share our learning about the animal we research.

Look here to get the App ChatterPix for free.
We enjoyed snowshoeing this afternoon.  We hiked up a huge "mountain".

Day 56: @vermontkkids123

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We connected with a real forest ranger in Yellowstone National Park this morning to learn about what forest life is like.

We are exploring different reading strategies to help us become strong, independent readers. We are making connections and noticing features of books too.
We created the world today using clay. We always want to care about each other and the world.

 
We are creating All About books on rabbits. Today we began creating our paper mache bunnies.

Day 55: @vermontkkids123

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We had a wonderful time snowshoeing this morning. We noticed that our snowshoes can make patterns.

We were able to see the school in Ghana where our friends go to school. We noticed that it is very sunny and warm in Africa. We shared that we are having a snowstorm in Vermont.

Day 54: @vermontkkids123

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We created magic wands to help us with our reading and writing super powers. 1 of our wands will be coming home to use.

What a wonderful day we had in kindergarten. We walked to the food shelf and learned about where the food goes that people donate. We liked seeing the global goals sign up at the food shelf too!

Today we had fun playing today. Through play we create and design useful things. Today a friend created a window scrapper.

We are locating missing words in our morning message and then writing them!

We looked at the world today to locate where our friends in Australia live. They sent us a postcard!

Day 53: @vermontkkids123

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We used the messaging feature to connect with a forest ranger in Yellowstone National Park this afternoon. They had a weak connection so we will try again tomorrow. We were being very flexible.
We read a new story called; "I Am Human".

We are learning a lot about numbers and exploring the concept of what comes before and after a number. 
We packed up 2 boxes of books to send to our friends in Ghana. The rest of the books we are donating to the Williston Food Shelf.

We are making lots of connections with our learning to the global goals too.

Day 52: @vermontkkids123

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During math time we are learning lots of new games that help us add and subtract numbers. We are exploring less, more, and equal too also.

 

We are also reflecting in lots of different ways about what we are learning about forest life.

Day 51: @vermontkkids123

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The children are working on their tree books. It is wonderful to see the children beginning to write independently and make connections with the strategies they are using.

We can connect 2 global goals to our exploration of trees. Trees keep the land healthy and us healthy too!

The snow outside is giving us an opportunity to think about what happens to trees in winter.

Seesaw is a great tool for us to use. We have been working on creating letters, reading sight words and sorting pictures according to their sound.

Day 47: @vermontkkids123

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We read a great story about following directions and being flexible.

We used Private Reasoning Time and Listening To Understand this morning as we explored a photograph. We are thinking bout water and how to be less wasteful. We had a great discussion about why everyone in the world needs to care. It connects with Global Goal #6 and Global Goal #15


We reflected on our learning so far about the forest and then we thought about ideas we are still wondering about.

We are so grateful for our materials from DonorsChoose. The materials will help us think mathematically and scientifically when we are outside in nature.

Day 46: @vermontkkids123

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It was a wonderful day in kindergarten.

We explored code and we noticed that code.org is liking what we are doing with our Bee-Bots.
Coding helps us..
* think mathematically
* collaborate
* share
* help others
* solve problems
* have fun
* persevere

We read books to self and with friends. We shared our thinking when we used our Smartboard. We Tweeted to friends about our learning.
We added more connections to our map.

We continue to save artifacts of all the ways we are making a difference in kindergarten too!

Day 45: @vermontkkids123

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This morning we sang lots of great songs with our friends in Ms. Canfield's and Mrs. LeBerge's classes.

We are working hard on recognizing sight words. To help us learn the words we are writing them, making rhymes, tracing them and looking for them in books. Your child will have their own set of sight words to bring home on Friday.

This afternoon we had our 1st 4 Winds lesson.

We are practicing letters l, k, and h this week.

We read the story Stick and Stone. It reminds us about the importance of kindness and friendship.

Day 44

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This morning we collaborated with all the kindergarten classrooms and created a peace sign. The fire station came with a ladder truck to take our photograph.

We read a wonderful story. Be sure to ask your child about it.


 We are working hard on our informational books about trees too.

 We have created a padlet about what trees look like globally. Please add to our padlet and share with others! Look here

During math workshop we explored creating tally marks. We are learning how to make tally marks and how they can help us with our counting.

Day 43 @vermontkkids123

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Today we explored writing with different tools. Some of the children noticed that they were collaborating to make signs and even 10 frames! Our word wall is a great place to look for common words that we use everyday in our writing. We notice many of these words in the books we read too.

We created graphs to show all the things that a tree needs to survive.