Kindergarten Newsletter
3/1/2019
Classroom News!
This week marks the end of our Fairy Tale study. We have read modern fairy tales, classic fairy tales, funny fairy tales and versions of fairy tales from many countries. We used a Venn diagram to compare and contrast a traditional version of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" and Ghanaian version of the story. Just after that we enjoyed our own bowls of porridge which, we enthusiastically noted, were neither too cold or too hot but were ... just right!
Before teaching the children how to use a clock to tell time and the proper way of recording that information, we want them to have a sense of how time works. To that end, we sat very still for exactly one minute. Following that we shared ideas about the sorts of things we thought we could get done in that amount of time. Some ideas the children had: "We can tie our shoes!", "We could do a puzzle!", "We can jump up and down 10 times!" We set the stop watch again and tried those very things. It was interesting to see what things took less than a minute and which took more.
Conversation Starters
* Did you do coding with Mrs. Opdahl this week? How do we go about fixing bugs in our code?
* Let's sing the poem of the week together!
* Let's predict how much time it will take to do something then use a stopwatch to see if are predictions were accurate.
Poem of the Week
Mail Myself To You
I'm gonna wrap myself in paper
I'm gonna dab myself in glue,
Stick some stamps on tops of my head,
I'm gonna mail myself to you.
I'm gonna tie me up in red string,
I'm gonna tie blues ribbons too,
I'm gonna climb up in my mail box,
I'm gonna nail myself to you.