100th Day of School Games

In light of our 100th day of Kindergarten tomorrow, I wanted to share some links of fun games for your kids to play at home on the computer!

Starfall Celebrates the 100th Day

Number Splat on a 100 Chart

Build a Picture Using 100 Snowballs

All About the 100 Dollar Bill (not a game)


This is a video called "People in Order." It counts 1-100 with a person of that age starting at 1 beating the drums once to indicate their number. It's pretty cool.  :)

Sounding Out Word Games

We are busy, busy in Kindergarten learning strategies of how to sound out words.  Your child may have shared our slinky strategy- kids get to use small slinkies to "stretch" and "shrink" words.  The kids know that even if they don't have a slinky in their hands, they always have an imaginary one. :)

Here's a link to a bunch of games that work on sounding out words:

click here

Major Saver Fundraiser

Indian Valley will begin the Major Saver Card Fundraiser here soon!  Above is the video that tells about the program, along with the prizes that the kids love to win.  Thank you for helping raise money for our school!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

We have been busy, busy this week learning about one of our country's leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  We read many books, did a web describing Dr. King, talked about our own dreams, and watched a clip of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.  Below is a short video from youtube that teaches kids about Dr. King with cartoons (just click the play button).  The picture above was a directed drawing activity of Dr. King- we have gotten more compliments about how great they turned out and how artistic our class is!  Definitely check them out if you are in the building. 

Happy Dr. MLK Day!

Stations this Week

The second half of our reading block after whole-group instruction is stations and small leveled reading groups.  I meet with each group (4-6 students) daily for 10 minutes each to work on a book at their level.  While I am doing this, the rest of the class is at stations.  Here are a few things that students were engaged in this week during stations!:

 

Math Station:  Build a Snowman

Writing Station: using winter-themed words to write notes, letters, cards, and all sorts of things! This student was writing about hot chocolate- yum. :)

Computer station: students can choose from a variety of games they've learned in computer lab or games that I have listed on our website under "Just For Kids."

Listening Station: books on CD, often themed to what we're learning or the season we're in.

Word Work: using letter cubes to build winter words

Science Station: working with the 5 senses and sorting

These are just a few of the many stations students do- some change weekly while others remain the same always.

Not a station, but a math activity that the kids loved this week- we talked about pattern blocks (shapes) and their attributes.  Students created a picture and then used a pattern block stencil to recreate their picture.  This was such a hit that I will put it as a math station for next week!

December Pictures

Blogger is finally up and running! I apologize for the major hiatus in my posts.  Please enjoy some pictures from the end of 2nd quarter.

Playing "Letter Detectives" with magnetic letters and holiday words.

Sequencing the story of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell

Our parent gifts ready to be wrapped!

Our class book exchange- each student brought in a used book wrapped and signed on the inside so the friend who received it can always remember!  This was super fun. Students drew numbers and got to open the book that matched his/her number.

My beautiful gift card tree I received from some students in our class- thank you for making me feel so special! You all are the best.