Mr. McClain's SuperKinders
It's a bird...It's a plane......It's the Super Kinders!
We had another great couple of weeks in Mr. McClain's Class! The kids all worked hard and had fun!
We had a lot of fun on the playground just collaborating and creating new games together.
In Language Arts:
We continued working on becoming "writers." We started to talk about narratives and how they are stories we tell with our words. After we talked for a couple of days, we brainstormed ideas about a character we could all write a narrative about.
Igor the Giant Spider
The AM class stepped outside the box with this idea.
Rex the Dinosaur
I love that they left it open ended so it could be any kind of dinosaur they wanted!
Labeling..
The kids loved using labels to help them tell their stories and describe their pictures!
Roar!!
The pictures were so detailed!!
Look out Rex!
Rex battled some other dinosaurs in this story!!
Poetry Notebooks
Claire is working hard putting another poem in her poetry notebook. We work on a sight word poem every week and highlight all the sight words in it at the end of the week.
Sharing our writing...
Caden is sharing his narrative with the class and answering questions about his thinking! The kids loved talking to each other about their writing!
How Do You Spell It?
These kinders are "collaborating" to figure out how to spell unknown words! The word "trip" was a lot of fun!
We incorporated some science with our writing!!
We started writing in our "4 Seasons of a Tree Journals." The kinders will be making 4 observations of the trees outside during the school year. We went outside and observed the "summer trees." They loved getting outside for some learning.
Here we go...
We took it outside today for our writer's workshop!
A little squinty...
Elizabeth smiled through the sun in her eyes haha...
Working in the sun...
It makes everything better!
In Math:
We continued working with our number sense and being able to count and represent numbers in a variety of ways!
We got into small groups to collaborate and think flexibly to answer the questions "What number is in Mr. McClain's Pocket?"
Boy Power....
These boys got together to answer the question based on my hints: it's a number that is more than 1, less than 10 and you can make it by putting 3 boys and 4 girls together.
Girl Power....
These girls got together to answer the question based on my hints: it's a number that is more than 1, less than 10 and you can make it by putting together doubles!
Collaboration..
I loved seeing them get together and just talk through math problems with each other!
Good Thinkers Think Flexibly...
The kinders did an awesome job of coming up with multiple ways to write their numbers!!
Getting Creative..
The pictures were such a creative way to show their numbers.
Share Time..
They loved getting the chance to show their work with their friends.
New Way for a Ten's Frame...
Isabella shared her work and informed us that she didn't use a Tens Frame to show the number 13, she used a "fifteen's frame"