Posted: January 15, 2019
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Posted: January 15, 2019
Kindergarten will be leading the school as we sing along to this song next Thursday.
"I'm Going to Read a Book Today!"
Posted: January 8, 2019
We read the story Sadie and The Snowman today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKu844jfNGk
Sadie built a snowman over and over again with lots of different things. We looked at the shapes on a snowman and learned the rules for our "Roll a Snowman" game.
Check out these links for more snowman shape fun:
Learn 2D shape names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVo1vL-Xg0M
Build A Snowman with 3D shpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyelEwDUfM
Posted: January 8, 2019
Did you know there really are Umbrella Birds?! Check out these videos: An actual Umbrella Bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVocLe8kBs(link is external) The Umbrella Bird song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkz-nlN5kM8(link is external) The Letter U is a "Hard Worker" - it makes 2 sounds - the sound at the start of umbrella and its letter name. Hear them both when the Story Bots sing "Unstoppable U": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwiFQh3BZk(link is external)We will use the letter U in our "magic word maker" and read some of these words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lyXMgkk9E&list=PLe5MVpQEpecY5uygy1tYsDM...
Posted: December 19, 2018
Posted: December 13, 2018
The children have been seeing this word on our weather chart all year so they are learning it in a snap -the! We like this video for practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8T5iG0U__U
Posted: December 13, 2018
Check out this cool video we are watching to learn those tricky shape names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q Can you find more shapes for each type around the house? Do you build with any of them? In class we are learning to describe them by using words like curved, straight, flat, corner, point, edge, side, face, and the shapes of the sides (triangles, rectangles, circles and squares).
Posted: December 10, 2018
Here is a link to a great site for fun games to practice letters over the holidays. https://pbskids.org/games/abc/ Which one is your child's favorite? Check out Alpha Pig's Alpha bricks where you need to stop the wolf from blowing down the pig's house. Another fun one is Alphabet Falls where duck catches letters and gets treasure.
Posted: December 7, 2018
This page has multiple math games for some Christmas themed fun! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=ChristmasYr1
Posted: December 7, 2018
We checked out this game today and the children loved it. It is great for building attention and memory skills - like the hands on version you may play. http://www.uptoten.com/kids/kidsgames-mixedbag-winterpairs.html
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