Measurement and Non-Fiction Texts!

It was a busy Wednesday in Kindergarten.  This morning Mrs. Guilmette visited for Guidance and read the book The Crayon Box that Talked emphasizing harmony through diversity.  Students were first tasked to draw a picture with only one color (boring) and then a picture with as many colors as they wanted!

After Guidance we brainstormed how we could successfully measure ourselves with a piece of yarn again emphasizing the importance of an endpoint and making sure that we stand straight and tall. Students then lined up from shortest to tallest working together to figure out who is shorter and taller and problem solving when necessary.  We then attached our strings to a cutout of our faces and hung them in the hallway!

This afternoon Reader's Workshop began with looking at non-fiction texts and sharing what we noticed about the different topics of non-fiction.  So often students think that non-fiction texts are only about animals but today we found some non-fiction texts about animals, plants, the seasons and going to the supermarket.  Our Reader's Workshop time was cut a little short due to the excitement (?) of some ants eating some snack that wasn't quite picked up.  This led to an important conversation about the importance of cleaning up after one another.