Dear River Families,
We had a busy week in Kindergarten as we continued studying Southwest and Plains Native Americans. The children worked hard on a beautiful thankful book for their families that they will take home this week! We continued a STEM unit focusing on physics and engineering. The children worked in small groups and rotated stations with different tools and challenges. They were prompted to build a bridge, build a tall structure, build a roller coaster with 2 dips and a turn, build a car and build a house. One of the biggest challenges of this unit is learning how to work as a team and make decisions in a group. We will continue this unit and have these materials available with different challenges through December.
Centers this week included making thankful cards for people around a school and for our families. We have been discussing the fundamental needs of man and identifying what we are thankful for. We read stone soup this week and discussed community! Each child had a hand in making Stone Soup a fantastic activity again this year. The children worked to cut their vegetables and shook vigorously to make butter from cream, just like the early settlers! We labeled parts of a turkey and discussed turkey facts! In one of our turkey activities the children learned the difference between an opinion and a fact. In Math this week we continued working on filling in the missing numbers in patterns. We began a new unit identifying and naming 3-dimensional objects. We introduced vowels and I presented this to the children as, “a e i o u and sometimes y”. We also learned more about the, “magic e” and how it can be a silent letter added at the end of a word to make the vowel say its name.
Next week Treehouse will be open Mon-Wed but Kindergarten will be on academic break. We are closed 11/23 and 11/24. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Sincerely,
Ms. Stephanie and Ms. Kira
Vowels- a e i o u and sometimes y <- example- “baby”
Magic e- it can be a silent letter added at the end of a word to make the vowel say its name <-example
The magic e turns can to cane, pet to Pete, pin to pine, con to cone
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