Lots of sorting going on in Kindergarten!

Today was a terrific Tuesday in room C-7!  This morning we watched a quick video about Antarctica as many questions were asked after reading Mr Popper's Penguins yesterday.  Students were surprised to see so much ice, snow and penguins make up the South Pole!

In math we continued our conversation on sorting.  I added numbers up to 7 to our set of subitizing cards and then I displayed the following image from our Eureka Math series on the board:

I didn't read the directions but asked how can we sort these pictures?  Every day I am constantly surprised at the creative and thought provoking student responses.  The creators of this worksheet were looking for a "correct" answer of animals that fly and animals that do not fly but Kindergartners engaged in a much deeper conversation sorting the animals into black and white and not black and white, animals with some white on them and animals with no white, animals that you would find in a forest and animals you could find in a house.  Amazing!

This afternoon for Reader's Workshop we read another non-fiction book Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies (she writes some GREAT non-fiction!) and students were excited to learn more about bats.  After reading and learning another fancy word, echolocation we watched a (silly) video about echolocation.