Day 20: @vermontkkids123

Today we made it to a new decade!  We are exploring many new math stations that are helping us write our numbers, count and subitize!

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We read 2 amazing books about why and how we can sustain our planet.

 

We are beginning to explore Global Goal #2 Zero Hunger. Jen from the Williston Food Shelf visited kindergarten this morning to speak with us..

Did you know?
* A food shelf is a place where there's food like a grocery store.
* It is a place for people to get food for free who do not have money to buy food at a store.
* Volunteers work for free at the food shelf.
* We can donate food to a food shelf.
Why we have  one in our community..
* to help kids get food to keep healthy
* to make sure all people have food when they need it
* supports #2 Zero Hunger
* people need food to survive and do well in school
What can we do?
* go to the store and buy food and drop off  at the food shelf
* invite friends over for dinner
* food drive
* visit the food shelf often.

Day 19:@vermontkkids123

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Please help us collect food for the Cans for a Cause contest. All food will be donated to the Williston Food Shelf.  We are in need of yellow cans to help create a school bus! We need lots of cans! Thanks for your help.

We enjoyed our trip to the Apple Orchard. We were able to pick our own bag of apples, learn how apple cider was made and we even tried some.

We identified shapes and the vertices of shapes on Seesaw too! We created detailed apple trees with labels like Gail Gibbons also. We are becoming great at using our eyes and our brains when we read and write.

Day 18 in kindergarten

Today we enjoyed reading with our reading buddies and explore a new math concept about 10! We explore the 10 frame.

Recycle Rhonda visited kindergarten again and spoke to us about composting.
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Day 17 @vermontkkids123

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Recycle Rhonda visited kindergarten today. She taught us a new song about how to remember to care about waste.  We gave her our flip, floppy plastic to drop off at Hannaford's too!
We created our own pledges about what we are going to do to be less wasteful.

Today we practiced tracing shapes in our Seesaw journals. We learned a new math word too. A vertex is a corner in a 2D and 3D shape. If you are identifying more than 1 corner in a shape you use the word vertices. 

We read a new book about how to say hello in different languages.

Be sure to ask your child about some of the languages we learned hello in.

September 24th:@vermontkkids123

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We read a wonderful story called; "The World Is Waiting for You". It is a wonderful collection of photos of the beauty of the natural world.

As readers we are using our brains and our eyes when looking at books. We created pages for our I'm Okay Books this morning.

This afternoon we finished planting all of our bulb gardens. Some of the gardens will attract ladybugs and butterflies!

We explored coding this afternoon. Coding helps us think mathematically and solve problems. We explored with BeeBots and Cubetto.

 

September 21st: @vermontkkids123

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Today we had indoor recess because of the rain. We are thinking that the rain will help our flowers grow.

We explored the flag today. We talked about how it is a symbol for our country. We created our own. We are exploring different flags in different countries.

We are creating a time of our scientific writing too!  We are exploring with labels and how to add details to our drawings to make our meaning clear.

We had lots of opportunities for collaboration today during play and our writing time. We read a wonderful story called; "The Ok Book". We are creating our own books next week.

Our trees we designed will be part of our Global Goal books. We connected 2 global goals to our learning about trees.

Day 14 @vermontkkids123

Today was a wonderful day! Our principal, Angela Filion visited kindergarten and read us a wonderful story called; "Be Kind." As a school community we are thinking about ways we can be kind inside and outside of our classroom.

Ms. S. visited kindergarten and we learned some new yoga moves to help us feel calm. We are exploring the zones of regulation. Be sure to ask your child about what they are and how they help us.

Today we planted more bulbs in our garden bed that is outside of our classroom. Later we created scientific drawings of our sunflower seedlings and bulbs. As scientists we talked a lot about how our illustrations and drawings are real and are what we observe with our eyes.

Ms. Wilson visited kindergarten this morning and we created our identities. When we are online we never want to use our real photo with our real name. We used Doodle Buddy to create our identities.

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We put together our very own global goal glasses and read a great rhyming story by Eric Carle. We are listening for words in stories that rhyme.

September 18th @vermontkkids123

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Ms. Wilson visited kindergarten and read us a great story Dot. The story was a great way to think about how we use digital tools and platforms in our classroom while also making connections with the natural world.

Our Smartboard is a great tool for us to use when we are exploring new words, letters, and numbers. We are exploring books and making noticings of special features.

Ms. Isabelle read a story about a tree. The story was a nice way to introduce the life of a tree and what it looks like during different seasons of the year. We created our own Fall tree.

Shelburne Farms

What a beautiful day we had today at Shelburne Farms. The children enjoyed exploring the forest. We learned about the life cycle of a tree, the parts of a tree and a bit about forest sustainability.
As ambassadors for the global goals we are learning about what is in nature and why it is important to find ways to advocate to take care of the land. Look here to see photos from today.

We made a connection with global goal #3 Good Health and Well-Being because we were doing lots of hiking today which helps make our hearts strong!

September 14th @vermontkkids123

Today we celebrated International Dot Day!  We used GoogleHangout as a platform to connect with Ms. Katie's class in Richmond, Vermont. Her students read us the story, The Dot and we shared our artwork. Later we collaborated and created 1 dot of all our designs. 

We read another great story by Peter Reynold's called: "Ish". We created our own "ishes" in kindergarten.

We have an older mathematician coming to Kindergarten to help us with our math thinking.

Today we did a show me what you know about shapes. We created designs and patterns using pattern shapes and we are working on structured math talk! See the photo below of what we do.

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September 13th @vermontkkids123

What a wonderful day we had together. 
Today we connected with some new friends in Brazil! We will be sharing our learning together on Twitter. Mr. Deyo's class is now a friend of ours on Twitter too. We are being safe, kind, and responsible digital citizens because we share about our learning, follow people our teacher knows who are safe and we are always kind when online.

We read another story about Pete The Cat! The story reminded us of global goal #4. We want all children in the world to think mathematically like we do.

We explored Geoboard in math. This App is free and helps us think mathematically about shapes and how to make them. Look here to get the App.

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We explored the global goals today too. We created a pledge which is a promise to think of an action for positive change to help the world. Yesterday we made a pledge to use iPads safely.

Learning Fun Today @vermontkkids123

Look here to see photos from today. We enjoyed using GoogleHangout with Ms. Jessica. We are learning about online etiquette so that when we use the web cam we understand how to use it in a safe, kind, and responsible way.
We are adding to our map of the world also. We noticed that we have people who were born in North America, Africa, and Europe.

We explored making a graph again today of our shoes. We were interpreting data with Ms. Isabelle. Our iPads came in handy for number practice. We continue to explore partner reading and reading to self.

September 11th @vermontkkids123

Today Ms. Wilson visited Kindergarten and showed us a video about how to be safe when we are online. We are learning about what it means to be a safe, kind, and responsible digital citizen.
We read another great story called;"Milk Goes To School"

Safety Online
The safety rules are:
1. Always ask your parents permission
2. Talk to people you know
3. Stick to places that are "just right" for you.
We explored our mathematical thinking by making math connections. We are creating and designing things with shapes and will share them on our Seesaw journal this week.
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Day 7 in Kindergarten

 What a wonderful day we had in kindergarten today. The children enjoyed planting bulbs outside and using their scientific tools outside while investigating the natural world. We also put together our names and practiced the letters m and n. We read 2 great stories about kindness and persevering.

We had a great start to our day singing with other kindergarten classrooms too! We sing together every Monday morning.



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Today we have been practicing writing letters and echoing sounds. We are learning some new literacy games to help us match letters and sounds together.

We practiced reading books from our reading boxes too! As readers we are noticing the pictures/illustrations to help us understand a story. 

During play we have lots of opportunities to collaborate and learn how to create things with the materials we have in kindergarten for things we need. We are already becoming amazing problem solvers.

We continue to practice and notice each other for being safe, kind, and responsible.

These words are great for sharing our ideas and solving problems.

Another Wonderful Day..

Today we learned about peace. Ms. S. is helping us create peace flags out of natural materials.  We read a book called;"The Peace Book."

We used our whiteboard table to help us practice writing letters f and b. We are exploring letters in our names and around our classroom. We notice that some letters are created with curvy, straight and even diagonal sides.

We visited the garden and learned about what grows there. We will all have an opportunity to visit the garden with Gardner Andrew.

We each have our own scientific bags, binoculars and even a field journal for when we explore nature and make observations.

We explored a new math habit of mind called Justify Why!  We know we are justifying our thinking when we use the word because. We explored a new App called pattern shapes. Go here and get it for free if you would like to have it!

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Day 4: @vermontkkids123

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Today we explored Seesaw. Seesaw is an online journal that you will be able to access your child's learning. Today we created posts about our mathematical thinking. Mrs. Bianchi, our math coordinator is helping us think mathematically.

We had fun during "Echo" time and practiced writing letters b, t, and f. Our Smartboard was being a little silly so we were flexible and used our tool kits and iPads to explore letter writing.

We enjoyed the stories; "The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Chrysanthemum. We created our own caterpillar book and noticed special features about our names.

 

Day 3 in Kindergarten!

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The leader of the day rings the silver bar, empties our compost, weeds our flowerbeds with a friend and waters our plants! When we collaborate with others will learn how to be responsible, work in a team, and share ideas. Through taking responsibility for nature we are exploring kindness and what we need in order to take care of the land.

Today we used AirServer to create different types of lines. We used an app called; "DoodleBuddy." Later we practiced making b and t on our Smartboard and we each have a cool tool kit for practice too.

Our new scientific tools arrived today thanks to DonorsChoose. We will be exploring nature and making scientific journal entries in our field journals later in the week.

Mrs. Bianchi is our math coordinator and she will be coming to math workshop everyday to help us think mathematically! Today we explored..