Happy Halloween!

It was a fun and busy Monday in Kindergarten.  This morning we practiced writing the letters e and u and then read the poem "Five Little Pumpkins" and students were given the challenge to work in small groups and build a fence that the five pumpkins (orange ping pong balls) could sit on top of.  Some groups used great teamwork and communicated with one another to plan and build their fence.  Other groups expressed that it was a little difficult to work together because they all had different ideas and it was hard to decide on one but in the end all groups were successful and able to build a "fence" to hold the five little pumpkins.

In Math my friend "Decomposing Monster" came to visit and introduced what it means to decompose numbers.  Students remembered this word from our talk on how food can decompose but today learned that numbers decompose, or break apart into different parts.  When "Decomposing Monster" eats things he breaks them into two separate groups.  We then showed how to decompose the number 5 with cubes and also made an anchor chart with post it notes that matched our cubes.

For Reader's Workshop we listened to two of the Ezra Jack Keats books we've read so far: Peter's Chair and Whistle for Willie.  I also introduced a few new literacy stations: searching for letters with letter wands, illustrating a poem independently by listening to a recording of it on the iPad and sorting names by letters that are in your name and letters that are not.

We then had PE and ended the day by watching It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and eating a popcorn ball treat!  If you're out Trick or Treating Tonight have a wonderful time and stay warm!