We started October with an All About Me unit. We read the book, Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes. The book is about a little mouse who was named after a flower. We learned that she has 13 letters in her long name. We then counted the number of letters we have in our names and created a graph. Brooklynn had the longest name in our class with 9 letters in her name.
Our class made a glyph of who lives in our house. Each colored window represents a person who lives in our house. To get a roof, the student must know his/her address. When a phone number is memorized, a phone can go in the house.
Last week was Down on the Farm. We learned about farm animals, the sounds they make and what they give to us. (No. Chocolate milk does not come from black cows.)
We read a fun book, Mrs. Wishy Washy by Joy Cowley. This is a favorite book in kindergarten because it is easy for the students to join in and read along. And they love to be the characters, Mrs. Wishy Washy, the cow, the pig and the duck, and act the story out. We have some terrific actors in our class!
In our art center, we made the characters and placed them in our farm on the bulletin board.
We also read different versions of The Three Little Pigs and compared how the stories were alike and different from each other. Rosie's Walk gave us practice with directional words.
Our farm unit concluded with a field trip to the farm and pumpkin patch.
We used buttons to practice our math skills of comparing, counting and sorting. We started the button unit by reading The Button Box, and we were able to explore buttons from our own button box.
Our button poem
