Lots of shapes in Kindergarten!

It was lovely to be back in Kindergarten today.  We did something new today and started our day outside at the playground in order to limit our inside to outside transitions and best utilize our time (as you can imagine it takes quite some time to help 20 kindergartners change into winter gear!).  We will do this as long as it is not too cold out there.  We will also end our day outside (except Wednesday we have Art to end our day) in place of our 11:00 recess.  Kindergarten really enjoyed this time this morning. 

We began our second math module this week on shapes.  Today we focused on triangles and determined whether a set of shapes were triangles or not.  Kindergarten was able to explain that a triangle has 3 straight sides, no curves, and they must be closed (no holes!).  Students then worked in small groups to build shapes with rubber bands and geoboards. 

During Reader's Workshop we started a unit on Winter Animals.  Today I introduced the word migration and discussed how certain animals move, or migrate, to warmer weather during the winter.  We learned that geese and monarch butterflies are a few animals that migrate.  The day ended with art with Mrs. Hawkes.