Acorn Art and Another Ezra Jack Keats Story!

This morning during play, some students had the chance to use some found acorns to create some art work!  We dipped the acorns in paint and then students dropped the acorn in a bin and rolled it around on a piece of paper to create some cool pieces of art.  This activity will be open for the rest of the week.

  

During Math today we worked on decomposing the number seven.  Using the ten frame and double sided counters we spilled the counters out and discovered that you can make seven in a variety of ways:

5+2

3+4

4+3

3+4

2+5

6+1

1+6

7+0

During Reader's Workshop I read another book by Ezra Jack Keats A Letter to Amy.  Kindergarteners are looking forward to these books about our main character Peter and today we met his friend Amy.  Today we guessed that Peter must be 7 years old because one student noticed 7 candles on Peter's cake!  It always surprises me how observant Kindergarteners are.  

During Reader's Workshop one station I introduced this week was Poems.  We have been engaging in the shared reading of the poem "Ten Red Apples" for about a week now.  Shared reading is an opportunity for all students to read a short, large text together.  This helps build confidence and fluency as readers as it is a repeated activity and all students are able to join in!  This week we started illustrating the poem working on adding pictures to match the words.  Eventually this will become an independent literacy station.