4th grade buddies, centers, and more!

On Monday, we had a chance to meet our 4th grade buddies from Ms. Lyon's class! They joined us along with Miss Minardi's kinders to read the story Pete the Cat: Rocking In My New School Shoes. After our story, Pete left us a special message in the back of our book that took us on a tour of our school. Our buddies did an awesome job reading the clues Pete left us and showing our kinders all important rooms in Green-Fields. We can't wait to spend more time with our buddies :)

We continued to focus on our classroom rules, routines, and procedures this week to make sure our classroom runs as smoothly as possible. On Monday, kinders were introduced to centers. We talked about center expectations, and we had a chance to work at our writing center, listening center, library center, math center, and library center.

At the writing center, we practiced writing our names with Mrs. Harverson. We traced our names, stamped our names, rainbow wrote our names, and then printed our names. Remember when practicing at home, make sure your child uses a capital letter at the beginning of their name.

Students listened to the story Lola at the Library at our listening center. When we finished our story, we talked about and illustrated our favorite part.

At the library center, students practiced handling books and got a chance to use whisper phones while reading.

We practiced making patterns and pictures with pattern blocks at our math center.




In math, we worked on number formation. We focused on numbers 0 and 1. We learned Dr. Jean's number songs to help us remember how to write each number.

0: Number zero is where it all begins, curve down, around, and up again.
1: Number one is so much fun, pull straight down and you have a one.

Mrs. Harverson practicing number formation on white boards with a small group of kinders.

Anthony and Abigail practicing forming the number 0.

Leilani practicing writing the number 1 in our new number books.