For the past two weeks, we’ve been experimenting with ice. This is the first unit this year that has been truly all inquiry. Usually, I have to provide some leading questions (ok, MANY leading questions!) to get us around to where we need to be, but this time, it took only three. What do you [...]
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Here are some pictures that show how we have been learning about snowflakes this week: They should be pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any questions, let me know! fuzzlady77@hotmail.com More pictures of this week’s ideas coming on Friday! Also, good news… I was able to get my Farmer’s Market Snowflakes paperwork rescued off my [...]
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Have you ever done a lesson on snowflakes with your students? A hands-on, inquiry based lesson? At our last district Kindergarten meeting, I shared some ideas I read about in the December 2009 issue of Science & Children magazine and added some of my own! My students will be learning about snowflakes for at least [...]
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For the last 2 weeks, my children and I have been reading and learning about The Mitten by Jan Brett. I’ll give you a run down of what we have been doing day by day, then I’ll post separately about 100′s day tomorrow! Monday: We took a picture walk through the book and then I [...]
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WOW!! What a day! My principal arranged the day so that we started our day of celebration by talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his hopes and dreams for the future. We then made our way to Barack Obama until we all gathered together in the gym/dining room to watch the inaguration together [...]
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I posted the pictures that go along with this story under the Lang. tab. (it is the 2nd up from the bottom) I use these pictures over several days to help the children work with oral sequencing skills. I also write the names of the items on sentence strips. On Day 2 of this book, [...]
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Here are what’s done already of my plans for January. You will see that I still have a few big holes to fill in. Sometimes I get the most important things out of my brain first and then mull over the missing parts. The DNC BK. 2 that you will see referes to Developing Number [...]
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Kristen Poindexter
