As stated in Ms. A's weekend newsletter, one of the many strengths of Roycemore is the attention to Social-Emotional Learning. In Kindergarten, the students engage in daily morning meetings where we discuss the concept of leadership by using the Leader in Me program. We have been slowly introducing the 7 Habits and have been enjoying the corresponding stories and discussion points in Sean Covey's book, "The 7 Habits of Happy Kids." It is exciting to see the language and lessons learned brought up organically during our school day! This week we reinforced the meaning of leadership and kindness and the students engaged in daily activities that promoted these ideas.
Art: Kindness Cards
Mrs. Lorenz invited the kids to create cards to hang up around the school. The kids designed cards with phrases like, "You are nice!" and "I like you!" The kids then drew pictures to go with their kind words.
Pre-K Visit: BEE Kind
Mrs. Dinelli and her Pre-K friends delivered us some friendly bees to remind us to BEE kind!
Journals: I spread kindness by...
This week we focused on how to be kind to others. Before we began writing we shared our kindness ideas and discussed why kindness matters! Our weekly journal activities increase the students writing skills. Each week the children get better at letter formation, sounding out words, and sentence structure.
Math: Math Fingers
This week the children learned a new math game called Math Fingers. During Math Fingers the students took turns holding up the number of fingers shown on a card and their partner determined how many fingers they were holding up. Students either counted the fingers, recognized the quantity without counting, or counted on from 5 (when 6–10 fingers were displayed). When students connect the number shown on the card to the number of fingers they hold up, they reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Math: Number Race
The purpose of this activity is for students to learn stage 1 of the Number Race center. Students practice recognizing and writing numbers as they roll a connecting cube onto the mat and trace the number that it lands on. Students continue rolling and tracing until one number "wins" (all of the numbers in the column are traced). After students have traced all of one number, they traced the rest of the numbers. In a future variation of this center, students will write the numbers instead of tracing them. We ended the lesson by graphing all the students winning numbers - 9 was the number that won the most!
Fundations:
This week the students learned proper letter formation for "e" "r." We also practiced spelling words by playing Mystery Word. During this game, the teacher taps out three sounds. The students have to identify the corresponding letter for each sound and write it on their writing tablets using proper letter formation. We then discuss the word and practice using it in a sentence.
Centers:
Centers this week included journals, reading groups, Harvest Hullaboo, fine motor skills, and the classic card game - war.
Music:
Library:
Art: Self-Portraits
Field Trip: The Grove
The kids had so much fun at The Grove! We went on a nature walk, explored the Interpretive Center, enjoyed a delightfully spooky hayride, and ate a picnic-style lunch outside.
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