Dentist Visit
We had the wonderful opportunity for a local dentist to come visit our kindergarten friends. She brought with her a giant mouth and toothbrush to show us how to brush our teeth. We talked about flossing and what teeth are made of too. She was so sweet and even brought us goody bags to take home!
Ramps
This past week we put aside shared reading and focused on learning about physical knowledge. We wanted to understand how gravity works as well as motion (push and pull on objects). To achieve this, I challened our friends to build the best ramps possible to make their ball roll at the fastest speed and the farthest across the floor. The first day they simply experimented with the materials and worked as a team to build their best ramp. The next day, I put all different size, shape, and weight balls in their buckets. It was the students job to figure out which one worked best on their ramp and why. The third day, the students were given felt and sandpaper to add to their ramp to see if different surfaces and friction would change their results (we only used one type of ball as our control). The fourth day, their challenge was to pick the surface they thought worked best and change the height of the ramp to see which height gave the best results. We had a lot of fun experimenting together and I think my friends enjoyed taking the learning into their own hands, they were in charge!
Read Across America Day
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Friday was our school's celebration of Read Across America so our goal was to read as much as possible all day long! We started our morning by having several parents and grandparents come visit and read to our class. In between visitors our friends shared about the book character they dressed up as and why while telling everyone about the book. We visited the library to check out new books, met with our book buddies to do some more reading, and got together with a first grade class to read some tongue twisters from one of Dr. Seuss's books. I even joined in and dressed up as Hooey the book reading parrot from Dr. Seuess' "Oh Say Can You Say?"! Everyone had a great time and we will continue the celebration this week by doing reading as many Dr. Seuss books as possible and incorporating him in all of our learning.
