tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52257105631618160692024-03-13T20:31:34.801-07:00Tzemach Class 2016Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-23463637847470248872017-04-28T10:09:00.002-07:002017-04-28T10:09:17.376-07:00Bugs, Bugs, Everywhere!Hello family and friends!<br />
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We've had a wonderful week in the Tzemach class! This week we have started what we're predicting to be a very long study on bugs! This is something the kids have brought up to us multiple times and it's the perfect time of the year to start hunting for bugs. As most of you already know from my email yesterday, my last day will be next Friday, May 5th. This was not an easy decision for me to make as I hate leaving the school year early. However, my doctor and I think it's a good decision as baby boy will be here in a few short weeks! I can't tell you how much I have loved this class of kiddos. They are absolutely precious and I couldn't pick a better group to be my farewell class. I'm planning on taking next year off to stay home with the baby. However, I will definitely find my way back to teaching! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for such a wonderful school year. As parents, you have provided me with so much love and encouragement. You are all wonderful! I'm sure I will be full of many bittersweet tears on Friday. Please keep in touch with me and let me know how everyone is doing next year, as most of us will be spread out to different schools. I'd love to hear about everyone's new year as big kindergarteners!<br />
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Ok, back to bugs! The kids have loved this new exploration and we've been overwhelmed with the number of questions they've been asking...yay! To start the week, we made a chart for our bug study. We asked the kids which bugs they were curious about and have been adding questions to our chart as the week has progressed. We'll continue to add our questions throughout the study and we're currently working on a good way to graph our findings. This week has been full of book reading and research. One thing we've been realizing is the similarity in so many of the bugs we're exploring. We've also been able to make a lot of connections to our study of bees from earlier this year. <br />
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While we know that worms are not actually considered bugs, we have added them to our study. The kids are insisting that they are bugs and have been begging us to explore them further. We thought we would dive into worms first since they seemed to be such a hit. To start we brought some live worms into the classroom. We laid them out in the middle of the table along with magnifying glasses and rulers and let the kids explore them. They loved this!! Honestly, it was quite hilarious. Some of the kids dove in hands first without hesitation. Others took time to work up their strength to touch them. Others wanted nothing to do with them at all. As we petted and held the worms, we compared sizes and tried to figure out which end was the head and tail using our magnifying glasses. The kids used the rulers to lay out different worms and measure their length. The longest one we could find measured right at 10 inches. Some of the kids even used the worms to form into the shapes of different letters. This started when one of the girls laid 2 worms on the table. When she looked down she saw that one was shaped like an "O" and the other like a "S". She immediately screamed, "Look! The worms are trying to spell Oscar's name!". This started a whole process of encouraging the worm to wiggle and guess which letters and shapes they were making. I love when the kids extend the learning like this. The unplanned stuff always seems to be the best! We have kept the worms in the classroom this week for the kids to continue to explore.<br />
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We also spent some time this week making bug boxes. The kids have been wanting to go on a bug hunt so we brainstormed some ways that we could use recycled items in the classroom to make our own bug catchers. We started by gathering any containers we could find with lids. From there we cut the center out of the lids and glued mesh to the existing lid. We then wrapped our containers in paper and decorated them. After we were done, we went out for a bug hunt! We walked all through the woods area and even up closer to the school where we thought we might see bugs. While we weren't very successful with our first hunt, we did gather some items to place in our boxes. The kids wanted a nice environment for their future bugs. They collected flowers, sticks, rocks, leaves, grass, anything they thought the bugs might enjoy walking on and eating. We did catch some ants but quickly learned that these wouldn't work in our boxes. They were way too small and quickly found their way out through the mesh. The kids are taking these boxes home and are excited to hunt for bugs again. If they find any, feel free to bring them in or send pictures! We'd love to see a variety of insects to add to our science center!<br />
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We have also started growing butterflies in our room! We were able to find a kit that allows you to follow the whole transformation from caterpillar to butterfly. The caterpillars are very small now so we'll also be able to watch them grow before they make their cocoon. The kit comes with food for the caterpillars as well as steps on how to feed the butterflies once they hatch. We are planning on keeping the butterflies for a couple of days once they hatch and then setting them free in the woods. We have given each child a journal to document their findings. In their journal they can write or draw pictures of the different changes they see. We are giving the kids liberty as to how often they want to check the progress of our caterpillars. They have already started documenting the progress. We're so excited to see how this goes! We have told the kids that this is a fragile process and because of that we aren't touching the caterpillars. However, we can watch them as often as we would like. They seem excited to watch this process!<br />
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I also wanted to let everyone know that we are now having Torah Time with Morah Sarit. She will be coming in during the morning to meet with us as a sub for Morah Devorah. The kids were so happy to have her in the classroom and we know they'll love this new time with her! She has a lot planned for them in the coming weeks, which I'm sure you'll hear all about!<br />
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We're excited to see where our bug exploration takes us in the weeks to come! <br />
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Love, <br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questioning and adding ideas</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
</ul>
<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials. </li>
<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibly, most of the time.</li>
</ul>
<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Recall some details in stories read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books.</li>
<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Begin asking "how and why" questions when looking at texts.</li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
<li>Show one-to-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects.</li>
<li>Identify the positions first through tenth using concrete objects.</li>
<li>Associate time concepts with a clock.</li>
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The beginning of our bug chart...</div>
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Exploring and learning with worms...</div>
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Working hard on making sturdy bug boxes for our hunt...</div>
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Hunting for bugs in the woods and collecting nature for their habitat...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-90187009447313209702017-04-07T10:32:00.003-07:002017-04-07T10:32:37.380-07:00Sedar and Sea Creatures!Hello family and friends,<br />
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It's been a great week in the Tzemach class! We've had a lot going on this week but we've been able to continue our ocean study. We aren't finished yet so we will let this exploration roll over into the week after Spring Break. We're so happy that the kids are enjoying their study of the sea life! Our school also had our big NAEYC re-accreditation this week, which we're sure went great! We also enjoyed a Sedar meal with Morah Devorah, along with some fun lessons done by Ms. Daizah!<br />
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To continue our sea life exploration, we've been working hard to make some 3D sea creatures. Thank you for all the wonderful recycled items that you provided us with! The kids really got into this project. Some chose to work alone while others helped each other out. The kids took different recycled materials and large paper to shape and mold the sea creature they've become experts on. This was a great way for us to further explore their creatures. We were able to focus on the shape and size of these animals, as well as their unique physical characteristics. We are still in the early phases of these creations. Everyone now has a creature formed. After break, we will work to finalize these by painting them and making sure they look exactly the way the kids want them to. I encourage you to check out our first phase of these creatures in the hallway. They look great! The kids took so much time to create them and I just love how they have turned out. After we complete them, we will be hanging them on the ceiling of the classroom. I'm pretty sure this is the part the kids are most excited about :)<br />
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We have also been learning a lot about Pesach the past couple of weeks with Morah Devorah. We've been learning the Passover story, as well as working on Sedar plates and enjoying some games related to the holiday. To wrap up our learning, we met with the 3 year old class in the large area outside of the preschool hallway. There were 2 tables set with grape juice, Sedar meals, and name cards. The children washed hands together and sat with friends. As we ate, Morah Devorah led us through the Pesach story and taught us the importance of each item we were eating. We also sang songs and socialized. It was such a sweet time. The kids loved being able to eat at a large table together and getting to play with the 3 year olds. <br />
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We also had a couple of lessons taught by Ms. Daizah this week. She taught us a math and a social studies lesson. During the math lesson, we learned about the words "more", "less", and "equal". Her goal was to have the children understand these words and be able to use them when talking about numbers. She introduced a new game to us that involved the kids comparing numbers and using special hand signals that represented "more", "less", and "equal". The kids played the game with her in a large group to the hang of it. Afterwards, she broke the class into groups and had them play on their own while she made laps around the room to encourage and guide them in their play. For her social studies lesson, she taught the children about immigrants. We learned that all of our families came from different countries at some point in our history. We also looked at maps of the world and talked about how far some of these travels may have taken our ancestors. She also spoke to us about being kind and considerate to all people, no matter their nationality. Ms. Kelly was able to come in and watch this lesson with us. It was a fun time of exploring the world and learning how to treat one another. Ms. Daizah's last week with us will be the week after Spring Break. We have so enjoyed her time with us!!<br />
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It's hard to believe that Spring Break is here and we're almost a month from the end of school. This year has flown by! As a reminder, Spring Break is from April 10-18. We will resume school on Wednesday, April 19. <br />
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I hope everyone has a wonderful break! I can't wait to see what your sweet kiddos come up with to learn about after our return!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questioning and adding ideas</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials. </li>
<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibly, most of the time.</li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Recall some details in stories read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books.</li>
<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Begin asking "how and why" questions when looking at texts.</li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
<li>Show one-to-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects.</li>
<li>Identify the positions first through tenth using concrete objects.</li>
<li>Associate time concepts with a clock.</li>
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Our wonderful Sedar meal with Morah Devorah and the 3 year olds!</div>
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We had such a great week learning with friends!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-84019213953692790962017-03-31T10:24:00.000-07:002017-03-31T10:24:04.942-07:00We Are Marine Biologist!Hello family and friends!<br />
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We've had such a fun week in the Tzemach class! As you remember from my last post, we are marine biologist! As scientists, we've been spending a lot of time in research. Last week we introduced the kids to a large number of sea creatures. We vaguely explored each creature together as a whole class. This week we wanted to make it more individualized. We wanted the kids to feel that they were real experts. We wanted them to go to their friends with questions about a sea creature and be able to get answers. We started by asking them which creature was their favorite. Which one did they want to research? Which one were they most curious about? Which one did they want to become an expert in? After selecting their creature of choice, we dove into our research.<br />
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To start our research we spent a lot of time in books. We had the books spread out and encouraged the kids to look through them and find pictures of their creature. Once they found a book that held information, we sat down one on one and read through the books. We asked questions and tried to find answers. If we couldn't find answers in our books, we turned to the internet. We sat down with the kids and put our questions into Google. We pulled up articles to read and explored pictures. We also wanted the kids to look at a short video of their creature to see it in action. After learning their picks, we found short 2-3 minute videos that gave a general explanation of the creature. Most of our research included: their living environment, what they ate, their behaviors, what parts of the world they lived in, and any other questions that the kids could think of. Between the books, articles, and videos, we discovered that we had learned a lot about our creatures! We were able to tell friends facts about our sea creatures! We were becoming experts!<br />
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As experts, we decided that we should share that information with others. We talked about the fact that marine biologist do research and when they make discoveries they share that knowledge with others. That's why we know so much about the world...someone discovered it and they shared it with us! To share our facts we thought it'd be best to write a book about our sea creature. We've written some fiction books throughout the year but never a non fiction. We started by talking through non fiction books with each child. We discussed the different parts of a book and their function. We discussed the difference between fiction and non fiction and why each was important. We gave the kids complete liberty of what facts they chose and how long they wanted their book to be. We became the author and illustrator for each page. We were careful to fill the pages with correct information. If we couldn't remember something we learned, we dove back into our books and searched for answers. Our pages consisted of things such as: the name of our creature, where they live, what they eat, interesting facts we discovered, and some of our favorite characteristic about our creature. I am in.love.with.these.books. Seriously. They really got excited about being experts and they took it seriously. They carefully drew their pictures to match their facts. They spent a lot of time working on their books. We didn't expect them to take up the majority of the week but they did. And that's ok! We were glad they got so involved. These are hanging up in the hallway so make sure you check them out.<br />
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After the fun mural we made last week, some of the kids wanted to do some more painting. This time they worked on individual artwork and painted creatures of their choosing. You can find these in the hallway along with their statements about their piece. Next week we will be jumping head first into our 3D creatures. If you have any recycled items at home, please bring them in. We want to give the kids tons of materials so they can get creative. Right now, the kids are saying they'd like to hang their 3D artwork from the ceiling to make the room look like the ocean. I think it's a great idea! I'm sure it will take us most of next week, but soon our classroom with come to life with sea creatures! We are also working to get a guest speaker next week. We're hoping he can come by and teach us all about the ocean and answer some more of our questions.<br />
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We're looking forward to another great week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
<ul>
<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge. </li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one or more ways.</li>
<li>Try to solve problems encountered in play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to follow through with tasks and activities. </li>
</ul>
<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following direction.</li>
<li>Participate in group life of class.</li>
<li>Demonstrate strategies to join play group with adult support.</li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time. </li>
<li>Manage transitions positively when told what to expect. </li>
</ul>
<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Retell one or town events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Incorporate information from informational texts into play activities.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>use drawings, letters, or words to create narratives about people and things in their environment.</li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems. </li>
<li>Classify objects in their environment by color, shape, size, or function.</li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
<li>Sort and classify objects by one attribute.</li>
<li>Represent simple two-dimensional geometric shapes. </li>
</ul>
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Exploring oceans through play during center time...</div>
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We are researchers! Learning all about our favorite sea creatures...</div>
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We are writers! Check out our non fiction books in the hallway...</div>
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I'm going to use this week's post to give you a brief update on what we've been doing the past 2 weeks since I was out of town for most of last week with family. First of all, I want to thank you so much for all the sweet words of encouragement and emails. They meant more to me than you know! I was so happy to be on Monday and get back to a normal schedule. I'm so thankful for a wonderful community of parents like you!<br />
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The past 2 weeks have been a little crazy as we've been trying to pin down what the kids want to learn about. To start last week, we were learning about plants because the kids had started bringing them in from their yards. We thought maybe they'd enjoy learning some more about these flowers. However, on Tuesday, the kids got to spend a little bit of time with Ms. Kelly while I was surprised with a sweet baby shower at school. While I was gone, they were talking to Ms. Kelly about things that are fast and she communicated with me that they seemed really excited about it! We thought this was something we should transition to. However, I found out that afternoon that my grandmother had passed away and I was leaving town. Michelle decided she'd keep up the plant study for those days and we'd meet with the kids on Monday about what they wanted to learn about. During this time the kids got to explore bulbs, seeds, plants, and leaves. They did some bulb dissecting and got to get their hands dirty as they explored different types of soil and plants. Michelle did some write ups on the bulletin board in the hallway that explains the rest of the week. I encourage you to go check it out when you get time. <br />
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When I came back on Monday we sat down with them to discuss our new exploration direction. They were all about things that go fast. However, during that talk someone mentioned that sharks go fast. This got everyone talking and before I knew it, most of them had jumped on the sea creature train! At this point, we had things go in so many directions that we figured it was time to do a vote. We asked them individually what they wanted to learn about and the verdict was sea creatures! At this point I was thankful that I hadn't spent all weekend at the library gathering "fast" books like I had originally planned. HA! This is the beauty of working with 4 year olds...they keep you on your toes!<br />
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All of that to say, we're officially on the topic of sea creatures! The kids are excited about it and have been bringing in TONS of books. I've been amazed at the facts we've been learning. Our plan for this exploration is to expose the kids to as many different types of sea creatures as we can and then allow each child to become an expert on a creature of their choosing in later weeks. To start the study, we made a web chart of ocean creatures we knew about and some questions we had. We then learned about the 3 main zones of the ocean: sunlight zone, twilight zone, and midnight zone. As we talked about these, we discussed their different characteristics as well as the types of creatures that live in each zone. We were able to learn how many of these animals have odd characteristics that allow them to better live in their zone. For example, many creatures in the twilight zone have large eyes because there is much less light in this zone. Many creatures in the midnight zone have body parts that actually make their own light since this zone is void of light all together. To further demonstrate these concepts, we made a jar of ocean zones. For the bottom, midnight zone, we dyed corn syrup a very dark purple/black. This shows no light entering that zone. For the next zone, the twilight zone, we used dark blue dish soap. This layer sits on top of the bottom layer and shows us how very little light can enter it. For the final zone, the sunlight zone, we dyed some vegetable oil a light green/blue color. This shows us that light can easily enter this zone, and therefore has the most abundant plant and animal life. I've noticed the kids talking about these zones during their play, so I hope you've been hearing about it at home as well.<br />
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After spending the week soaking up as many facts about new sea creatures as we could, we thought it'd be fun to let the kids paint an ocean mural of some of their favorite creatures we've studied this week. As we painted, we discussed facts about each creature, such as where it lives, what it eats, it's defenses against predators, and our favorite things about the creature. Some students chose to work alone during this time, while others worked together and merged their mural section. A few of them even created a beautiful coral reef full of colors and life! We did 2 of these murals and will be hanging them up on the walls as soon as they dry.<br />
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Next week, we plan on beginning to narrow down the interest of each individual child. We want them to learn, in detail, about the sea creature that they're most curious about. I'm excited to learn what each of them pick and see what direction they take us in next! If you have any books or ocean artifacts, please bring them in! Also, if you or someone you know is a diver or expert in oceans, we'd love to have a speaker! We're looking forward to another great week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Show curiosity in an increasing variety of activities, tasks, and learning centers.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questions and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery. </li>
<li>Demonstrate growing initiative in selecting and carrying out activities. </li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials. </li>
<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities. </li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders. </li>
<li>Manage transitions positively when told what to expect. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Make relevant comments or appropriate responses to story events or characters. </li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text real aloud. </li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about eh causes of events they observe or hear about in books. </li>
<li>Explore books independently. </li>
<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Incorporate information from informational texts into play activities. </li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books. </li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Use emergent mathematical knowledge as a problem-solving tool.</li>
<li>Generate conjectures abased on personal experiences and simple reasoning. </li>
<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems. </li>
<li>Classify objects in their environment by color, shape, size or function. </li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas. </li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment. </li>
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Enjoying our Purim carnival with the other classes!</div>
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We had a blast on our blow up course!</div>
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Our short (but fun!) plant exploration...</div>
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Learning about the ocean zones...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-52886951234380343382017-03-10T10:34:00.002-08:002017-03-10T10:36:19.002-08:00Our Purim Celebration!Hello family and friends!<br />
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We have had such a fun week celebrating Purim! We spent the week learning the story of brave Esther who saved the Jewish people from Haman. We've spent time reading books about this story and discussing the importance of this holiday. We've also added different elements of the holiday into our center and group times. Our learning this week ran parallel with our work with Morah Devorah, so it made a week full of learning and celebrating this holiday!<br />
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We wanted to spend some time this week focusing on the four mitzvah of Purim. The first of these is Mishloach Manot. This is the giving of food to others. To demonstrate this, we weaved our own baskets using yarn and paper bowls. After weaving them, we filled them with clementine and homemade<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background-color: white;">hamantaschen that th</span></span>e kids made. After putting food in their baskets, they gave them to a friend in the classroom. As we made these exchanges, we talked about the importance of giving to others and being thankful for what we were given. We also gave extra Tzedakah this week as well as listened to Morah Devorah read part of the Megillah (both mitzvah). The kids made groggers (noise makers) that they shook when the name of Haman was read aloud. We really enjoyed this as the Megillah was read in Hebrew - what an awesome experience! Another mitzvah for Purim is having a festive meal together. While we didn't have an actual meal (other than our family style lunches), we did discuss this mitzvah during our lunches and enjoyed sampling our hamantaschen!<br />
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To make our groggers, we let the kids decorate water bottles with glue and pieces of tissue paper. After decorating them, we filled them with beans so they would make a loud noise when we shook them. These were great to use as we read Purim stories this week and worked to drowned out the name "Haman". <br />
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We also spent time this week making our own hamantaschen. The kids loved it! They cut out circles in our dough and filled the dough with their choice of fillings. We had apricot jam, strawberry jam, grape jam, and chocolate chips. Once they filled their dough, they worked to shape them into a triangles. Each of us made 2 pieces. On Friday, after we weaved our baskets, we had the kids pick one of their hamantaschen (along with the clementine) to give away to a friend. This was a great time for us to talk about giving to others and allowed us to put a focus on the feelings of others. It was a sweet time of giving and caring for one another. <br />
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The bulk of our week was spent making our awesome carnival games! Each preschool class worked to make a couple of games for other children around the school to come and play with during our celebration on Monday. We sat down together and brainstormed several different types of games that we could make. After gathering a handful, we took a vote. The kids chose to make a fishing game and a ring toss game. This was a great time for us to incorporate science and math as we took measurements, discussed magnetics (used for our fishing game) and how they work, and think about objects to use for ring toss. We knew we wanted to use materials that would fly easily through the air. They chose to cut rings out of paper plates. After we finished making each game, we let the kids test it. That's what scientist do, after all! Through our testing, we found areas that we needed to improve on. This got us talking and thinking about changes we could make. Our biggest change was adding more paper clips to our fish so the magnetics would stick better. Every part of these games were made by the kids. The made the fish, added paper clips, went outside to hunt for sticks, attached magnets to our poles, decorated our rings and poles, everything! We are so proud of their hard work! We'll leave the games out next week so the kids can enjoy them during centers. Make sure you check them out!<br />
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Of course, on Monday we will spend the day dressed up! We will also play carnival games around school and even get to play with a giant blow up obstacle course that the school has rented for the day. They are so excited about it! We've even been doing a countdown to the big day!<br />
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We're looking forward to a great week ahead!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one or more ways.</li>
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<li>Retell one or tow events from a story read aloud. </li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud. </li>
<li>Recall some details in stories read aloud. </li>
<li>Incorporate favorite parts of literary texts into play activities.</li>
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<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
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Working hard to make our games for the carnival on Monday!</div>
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Making our Purim groggers!</div>
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Preparing our hamantaschen for us and a friend...</div>
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Carefully preparing our baskets to give to a friend. We made our baskets and then filled them with a note, homemade hamantaschen, and a clementine...</div>
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What a fun week we've had in the Tzemach class! As we've been continuing to enjoy our Mo Willems books, we've been incorporating this study into our reading and writing workshops. I thought I'd take some time to share details about our workshops throughout the week. We do a reading, writing, and math workshop. These are great times for us to work in large group, small groups, and individually. It's also an ideal time for Michelle and I to make our way through the class and get one on one time with the kids. This is where we do a large part of our assessments and adjust our standards based on the skills of each individual. <br />
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For this week's reading workshop, we put a focus on the writings of Mo Willems. We continued to discuss many of the concepts mentioned in last week's post, as well as put a strong focus on specific words. In the beginning of the year, many kids tell us they "can't read" and therefore can't do reading workshop. Of course, this isn't true! They are recognizing letters and sounds, they are reading environmental print around them (even something like a stop sign). We also tell them that "picturing walking" is a form a reading. You can use the clues and pictures around the text to figure out what the author is telling you through the story. This concept is used in each of our reading workshops, but this week we encouraged the kids to hunt for words that they have learned throughout the year. Most of the words are on our word wall, but many of them have also been picked up during center play and morning meeting. The kids sat with a partner and pictured walk through a book. They hunted for sight words and then spent time telling the class what their story was all about. Many of them were amazed at how many sight words Mo Willems uses in all of his books! :)<br />
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We also did things a little differently in our writing workshop this week. Many of our writing workshops consist of working in our journals. This is time for the kids to write about anything of their choosing. Some chose to only draw, while others chose to write a few words or even all of their thoughts. During this time, we do not tell the kids how to spell words. We encourage inventive writing, where they use previous knowledge of letters and sounds to form words the way they think best. Of course, they always have words around the room to refer to, but this inventive writing helps to develop both their reading and writing skills. This is a time for them to become more comfortable in their writing and gives the opportunity to tell stories through their words and artwork.This week we chose to play some letter BINGO instead. We played some rounds by calling out the actual letter. Other rounds were played by calling out the sound of a letter or a word that starts with the chosen letter. This was a great way for us to get our brains running with sounds and letters and was a great way for us to work with one another to figure out letters together. I am currently working on making BINGO a little more challenging by adding sight words and other familiar text to our games.<br />
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During our math workshops, we play games based on different math concepts. Michelle and I make game stations for the kids to work their way through. This is a great time for her and I to provide games based on where each child is individually. As each of child's skills develop throughout the year, we change the games out and add new ones. We want them to be fun but also challenging. Some of these games allow for team work, while others are for individual work. As the kids work through each station, they are working on math concepts specifically catered to them and where they currently are developmentally. As the year progresses, so will our workshops. As the kids master more skills, we will change up our strategies and expectations. This is a great way for us to be able to spend one on one time with the kids. It gives us a clearer idea of what skills they've mastered, what they are still working on, and what direction we need to take them.<br />
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We also had another wonderful lesson with Ms. Daizha this week! She chose a science lesson and focused on the concept of sound. She taught the kids all about vibrations. To do so, she put a speaker up to a bowl of rice and we watching them "dance". This was a great way for them to be able to physically see how vibrations work. She also played a guessing game with them where she had them cover their eyes while she made a noise. They were then supposed to guess what object was making the noise. This led to them talking about different types of instruments. They worked in stations to create either a Chinese drum or maracas. After they made their instrument, they met back in a large group and spent time making music together. It was a wonderful lesson and the kids seemed to really enjoy it! We're already looking forward to her next one!<br />
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Love, <br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
<li>Associate at least <span style="background-color: white;">two </span>measurement devices with their purposes.</li>
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It's been a short but fun week in the Tzemach class! After several weeks of exploring blocks, we noticed the kids taking an interest in our books by Mo Willems. So, this week we decided to do an author study on him. Throughout an author study we read books by the author, talked about the different parts of a book, discussed the writing process that authors go through, and discussed what we like (and don't like) about the author's writing style. It's a time for us to discover more books but also a time for us to relate reading to our real life experiences. We chose Mo Willems because the kids LOVE his books. If you haven't heard of him then I encourage you to check out some of his books at the library. We read many books in these series: Elephant and Piggie, Pigeon, and Knuffle Bunny. Our class' favorite series of his seems to be the Elephant and Piggy collection. The books are funny but also teach us some valuable lessons. In this series the author uses text bubbles to show dialogue. The grey bubbles represent the elephant and the pink ones represent the pig. As we read through these books, we noticed the text was different from many other read alouds we've done. He makes some words huge to represent a loud reading and some words small to represent the opposite. We learned that you can tell a lot about how a character feels by the way the text looks. Even if we didn't yet know a word, we could still tell the tone that the word should be read in. <br />
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To start our study we read all the Mo Willems books we could find. We talked about the characters, their feelings, and their importance to the stories. We talked about the purpose of an author and illustrator, as well as the tone the author uses when he writes. We also learned that some books can be funny! We had a great time laughing through these books and talking about the feelings of the characters and what events they went through. After we read several different series, we made a chart of our favorites. We each wrote our name on a piece of chart paper until our favorite set of books.. As we voted we told everyone what we liked about that book and why it was our favorite.<br />
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After spending time learning about the parts of a book and the writing process, we decided to write our own stories. We let the kids take complete liberty with what they wrote. They picked the genre, characters, and story line. We sat down with each child individually and talked them through the process. We started with talking out our storyline and what our characters were going to be. Next, we drew pictures of what was happening in our story. After getting our story on paper through illustrations, we thought of a title and completed our front covers. Most of the class wanted Michelle and I to write the words out so we went back through the story with them and wrote word for word what they told us. Some of the kids chose to write a few words of their own. I noticed some of them writing words really small or really big. When I asked why they chose to write the words that way, they informed me that they were writing like Mo Willems. They really put some thought into these books and they look great! Take some time to read them in the hallway...our little authors are awesome!<br />
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We also spent some time this week putting on a puppet show! We printed off an elephant and piggy characters and glued them to popsicle sticks. We decided to use our long table as a stage and 2 kids at a time took turns hiding behind the table and used their puppet to tell a story. Some of the partners chose to retell a Mo Willems story while others chose to make up their own story together. This time was too funny. The kids LOVED it! The audience was cracking up as elephant and piggy went on all kinds of crazy adventures. As you can guess, most of our stories were full of silliness! <br />
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We told the kids that we would continue to read plenty of Mo Willems books throughout the rest of the year. If you have any at home or find some at the library, please bring them in. We'd love to read some new ones!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one or more ways.</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
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<u>Social & Emotional</u><br />
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following directions.</li>
<li>Participate in group life of class.</li>
<li>Develop friendship with one or town preferred children.</li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate strategies to join play group with adult support.</li>
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<u>Language & Literacy</u><br />
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<li>Carry out simple directions and directives.</li>
<li>Complete a thought or idea when communicating with others.</li>
<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories.</li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs and graphs to gain information about topics of interest. </li>
<li>Represent familiar people and experiences through art and language.</li>
<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
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<u>Mathematics</u><br />
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Compare the lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Understand and use positional words to describe the location of objects.</li>
<li>Identify the positions first through tenth using concrete objects.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
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Enjoying our Mo Willems books!</div>
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We are authors and illustrators! Check out our work in the hallway...</div>
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Our favorite book collections...</div>
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Fun with friends!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-72231707487595574982017-02-17T10:55:00.003-08:002017-02-17T10:55:59.465-08:00Ramps and Races!Hello family and friends!<br />
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What a fun and busy week we've had! After over a month, it looks like we have wrapped up our block exploration. We've stayed busy and have learned so much! This all started when the kids wanted to learn about skyscrapers. Our time planning and building was a blast.! From skyscrapers we ended up taking a closer look at blocks by measuring and comparing sizes and shapes. We also spent some time in the exploration of mazes (which may have been my favorite!). I was amazed at some of the mazes they built. All of that led to us to this week, our exploration of ramps! <br />
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To start our week, we made a special gift for Harley. As I'm sure all of you know by now, Harley and her family are moving and today was her last day with us. While Harley wasn't at school on Monday, we worked on making her a book to take with her on her move. Each of us drew a special picture and said a message for her. The kids had so much fun doing this and the fact that we had to keep it a surprise until Friday made it even more exciting for the them. I took a picture of each page for you to look through. They were just too sweet not to share. We also had a special pajama day per Harley's request. Friday was a sweet day of celebrating friendships and loving on our sweet Harley!<br />
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Throughout the rest of the week we focused on ramps. To start, we had some discussions about ramps...what were they, why they are shaped the way that they are, where we see them in our world, what would roll down a ramp, and what are their different purposes? After some time exploring these questions, we laid 4 different types of balls in the middle of the carpet...a volleyball, a hard plastic ball, a soft rubber bouncy ball, and a marble. We split the class into groups and they each explored the different balls. Later, we met and each group gave us facts about them. This got us talking about the way balls bounce. We decided to test out which ball would bounce the highest. We took predictions beforehand and wrote them out on a chart. Then, we tested out our predictions in the classroom. We made a mark on the wall and then had the kids drop each of the balls from that same height. We discussed the importance of not throwing it down...we wanted our results to be as accurate as possible so we each did a simple drop. After each drop we marked the wall with the highest bounce point and finally discovered that the rubber bouncy ball bounced back the highest! We marked our findings on our chart. <br />
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Next, we wanted to see which ball would roll the fastest down a ramp. We decided to use the big ramp in the school (leading to the synagogue). We were hoping to do this outside but the rain kept us in...it was fun either way! To start, we made more predictions and charted them. We decided the best way to test this would be to have several different races. We started by calling 2 kids to the top of the ramp and they each chose one ball of their choice. We kept doing these 2 on 2 races until each ball had raced all the others. We also placed a helper at the bottom of the ramp to judge the race and collect our run away balls. After individual races, we pulled all 4 balls to the top of the ramp and had one large final race. Before I disclose the results, I want to paint a little picture in your head. We had all the kids lined up down one side of the ramp for viewing, and 2 kids at the top with a ball in their hands. There was jumping and chanting and screaming and cheering...I had no idea they would get this ecstatic. It was hilarious to say the least! We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves :) We lined the balls on the starting line and discovered that the marble was definitely the fastest! <br />
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We also spent some time making our own ramps. We reviewed the basic design of ramps before starting, and then let the kids work with their peers. Most of them chose to build ramps with blocks...which worked great! They worked beautifully together and got so creative. Many of them were full of obstacles with several different pathways. After we constructed our ramps, we used our different balls to see how they worked. Some groups found out that their ramps needed to be tweaked after experimenting with the balls. It was a lot of trial and error, but so much fun! <br />
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To wrap up our awesome week, we had our intern, Ms. Daizha, do her first planned lesson with the kids. They enjoy having her in the room so much and she is amazing with them. She started by reading a book called, "Layla's Head Scarf". Throughout the story she talked with the kids about our differences and how we can be kind and respectful to one another. It was a great opportunity for us to talk about being kind and caring for those who look and dress differently than we do. After reading, we spent time writing and drawing Layla, the main character, a kind letter to encourage her. These kiddos are so sweet. They were careful to use words that we uplifting and encouraging and drew pictures full of friends and hearts. It was a great lesson and we're so excited for our next one with Ms. Daizha!<br />
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We're looking forward to another great week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Demonstrate growing initiative in selecting and carrying out activities. </li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions.</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders.</li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibility, most of the time. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Distinguish between descriptions of story events and spoken words of characters.</li>
<li>Retell one or two events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Incorporate favorite parts of literary texts into play activities. </li>
<li>Explore books independently. </li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Use emergent mathematical knowledge as a problem-solving tool.</li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purposes. </li>
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Working in groups to explore and make predictions...</div>
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Working on our drop experiment...</div>
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Ramp racing and building! Our favorite part of the week...</div>
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Enjoying our lesson with Ms. Daizha...</div>
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Our finished product! We love you and miss you, Harley!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-45909461169406365132017-02-10T10:23:00.001-08:002017-02-10T10:23:22.075-08:00Blocks and MazesHello family and friends!<br />
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What a fun week we've had in the Tzemach class! This week has taken us in a lot of different directions as we enjoyed a special visitor and have been learning about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat. However, we've still spent most of our time learning through our ongoing blocks exploration. We're curious to see if the kids will want to extend this into next week or move on to something new...we'll keep you posted!<br />
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One fun thing we did this week was get a visit from a dentist office. We got to meet with the kindergarten class and learn all about our teeth and how to take care of them. We were taught the importance of brushing twice a day and how plague mixed with sugar can lead to cavities. The dentist office was so impressed with how much we already knew about our teeth! We also got to practice brushing teeth on a large model of a mouth with a giant tooth brush. As we did this we focused on brushing the top, front, and backside of each tooth. We also got to take home a tooth brush and tooth paste when we left! The kids were very engaged and are still talking about it.<br />
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We have also finished our model skyscrapers!! This 3 week project has been an awesome one. The kids have spent so much time working and adding details to their buildings. This week we just focused on the final touches, such as windows and doors. Some of us chose to make these with foam and paper, while others chose to draw them on with markers. We will leave these out on display for a bit longer as the kids are very excited to show them off! They are very proud of their work, as they should be! Make sure you check them out when you have some extra time this week.<br />
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Even though we were done with our buildings, the kids were still wanting to continue our block exploration. We spent some time talking about different ways that we could use block besides constructing buildings. Throughout our talk, the idea of mazes came up. We discussed what they were, how they worked, and why a lot of thought had to be put into making one. We started by printing and laminating some mazes. I started with easy ones, not knowing how the kids would react to working them. I was told within 5 minutes that these mazes were entirely too easy! The kids helped me find some tricky ones on the computer and we printed and laminated them as well. This gave us a wide range of difficulty levels for the kids to explore. We kept the mazes out in centers for the kids to work through. We also worked in groups to make mazes with different types of materials. Throughout the week we've seen mazes made from wooden blocks, legos, snap cubes, and even our food during lunch time! These mazes were awesome! Some of the kids used our printed mazes to give them an idea of how to start. We discussed that we first needed a start and finish point. We also needed to make a clearly cut path but also provide walls. After each group felt like they completed their maze, we used either cars or marbles to work through the mazes. Most of the mazes took the groups several tries to get them just right. Once the cars went through the maze they usually found that they had too many walls without a direct path to the finish line. It was a great time of trial and error and thinking through their construction. <br />
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We've also spent time talking about Tu B'Shvat. This holiday is the "New Year of the Trees", when trees in Israel are beginning their fruit bearing cycle. This holiday relates our lives to tree in that, just as trees need strong roots to grow, we also need strong foundations. The fruit that we bare in our lives are our actions and how they affect those around us. This has led to discussions of how to treat others and how our good deeds can be a benefit to those around us. We also got to explore dates, figs, grapes, olives, and pomegranates. These are all fruits that grow in Israel. We explored these with Morah Devorah as she told us about each fruit and how it is grown. This has been a great time of exploration for us as we learn about a new holiday and it's importance!<br />
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We're looking forward to another great week!<br />
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Love, <br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches To Learning: </u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner4 by questions and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to organize actions and materials in the learning environment. </li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities. </li>
<li>Stand up for rights much of the time. </li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibility, most of the time.</li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders. </li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Carry out simple directions and directives.</li>
<li>Complete a thought or idea when communicating with other.</li>
<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories. </li>
<li>Ask "how" and "why" questions about things in books and their environment. </li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs, and graphs to gain information about topics of interest. </li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class stories, rhymes or poems.</li>
<li>Makes some upper case letters without regard to proportion or placement. </li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
<ul>
<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Use nonstandard units of measure to compare everyday objects.</li>
<li>Compare the lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Represent simple two-dimensional geometric shapes.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Show one-to-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects. </li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
</ul>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-70198184304143183602017-02-02T11:48:00.003-08:002017-02-02T11:48:29.122-08:00Our Skyscraper Progress!Hello family and friends!<br />
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This blog post will probably be the shortest one I've ever written! This is not for a lack of us staying busy, because we have been some very busy bees this week! However, our week has been completely consumed with building our skyscrapers. We are currently in week 2 of this process. However, we are close to finishing them. When we started this, I did not expect it to take this long but I have been so impressed with the kids. They have really taken charge of their buildings and I love the way they are turning out. This is definitely not the end of our building/blocks study. The kids are very much still interested in it and continue to ask questions. I've even had several of you tell me that the kids are building replicas of different homes and buildings that they see in their neighborhoods. As a teacher, this makes my heart so happy! I love to see their enthusiasm and learning extend beyond our classroom walls. <br />
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These past 2 weeks of working on our buildings have been so much fun. This has been a wonderful opportunity for us to teach the kids that not everything we do is done immediately or quickly. Some things are a process that take time, and usually these things are the most rewarding. I think they are beginning to understand this as they have been so proud of their structures. They ask to work on them every day and they are continuing to find ways to improve their work. We started this, as you probably remember from my last post, by studying skyscrapers and then drawing our own. We then used our drawings to guide us as we made our 3D structures. We laid out a large amount of recycled items and let the kids use whatever they wanted to start buildings. We were there to help with some steps of this, such as having to use the hot glue gun, but they really took control. Next, we used our drawings again to add color to our structures. Some chose to paint, others chose to use markers or cover in construction paper. We laid the materials out and let them get to work! After adding color, we went back and added exterior features, such as windows, doors, and even grass and trees around our buildings. Most of them decided to make their structure exactly like their drawing. However, some came up with new ideas throughout this process and changed things up a bit. This has been a wonderful way for us to incorporate math and science into our learning. We've also seen team work as they help one another and each other tips and suggestions. We hope you've been enjoying watching our process in the hallways! We will be putting these final products out on display in the hallway next week. <br />
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Another fun thing we've been participating in this week is our school's new mail system. The third graders have been working to put the system together and we volunteered to participate! The third graders gave every class participating an address and have labeled the different halls with street names. We gave the kids a box and let them make a class mailbox and put in out in the hallway outside our door. The kids have loved it! We have put a box out in our classroom full of envelopes, stamps, and some common words they may need to know when writing a letter. Anytime throughout the day they can write a letter or draw a picture to someone in the school. After finishing, they put it in an envelope, stamp it, and address it. They then place their mail in our mailbox and raise the flag. A third grader comes around every day to collect our mail at 1:30 and then distributes it at 2:00. It has been such a fun time checking our mail together in the mornings! This has been a wonderful way for us to get connected to other kids in the school!<br />
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We're excited to see where next week takes us as continue to explore blocks and buildings!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Demonstrate growing initiative in selecting and carrying out activities. </li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions.</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
</ul>
<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders.</li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibility, most of the time. </li>
</ul>
<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Make relevant comments or appropriate responses to story events or characters.</li>
<li>Distinguish between descriptions of story events and spoken words of characters.</li>
<li>Retell one or two events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Incorporate favorite parts of literary texts into play activities. </li>
<li>Explore books independently. </li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Use emergent mathematical knowledge as a problem-solving tool.</li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purposes. </li>
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Hard at work...making progress!</div>
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We had a short week this week but it was definitely a fun one! We spent our time together continuing to explore blocks. This has also led us into exploring large buildings and skyscrapers. It started with the kids trying to figure out how tall they could build with blocks. This got us talking about cities and tall buildings. The kids really got into this. We talked a lot about the structure of buildings and the materials used to construct them. We discussed the importance of using materials such as steel and concrete. The kids also talked about the importance of having a sturdy base before you start building the skyscraper upwards. We did some experiments with blocks that made us see the importance of a solid foundation before building. Through some time building structures, we discovered that a small base means the skyscraper would fall over very easily. <br />
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To start our study, we found some pictures online that we liked and printed them out for us to study. We discussed similarities that we noticed in these buildings and also differences in their shapes and designs. We also discussed the process that a building goes through before it is actually built. There are sketches drawn, edits made, designs created on the computer, and a large amount of people to make it all come together. These pictures were used throughout the week as the kids did different activities such as building and writing/illustrating in their journals. We decided to laminate them so that we could keep them to refer to throughout the year during our time spent in the block center. <br />
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One of our favorite activities we did this week was experimenting with construction using different types of blocks. We divided the class into 4 different teams and created 4 different stations throughout the room. Each station had a different type of block. We used the wooden blocks, small legos, connecting tiles, and small snap cube blocks. Each team had 5-10 minutes at a station to work together to build a skyscraper. After the time was up, each team told us about their structure. We discussed how each team made their structure, why it stood firm or why it fell over, struggles and successes they had, as well as comparisons in size and shape. After each team spoke, we rotated each team to a new station to experiment with new blocks. We continued this process of constructing and discussing until each team has rotated to the different stations. I think my favorite part of this activities was the team building. We spoke both before and during this time about the importance of working together with others and what that looked like. We realized afterwards that when we worked separately it took a lot more time and our skyscraper didn't get as tall. But, when we worked together to build onto our foundation, we were able to build a much taller and stronger building. I was so proud of them! As the activity progressed, each team worked more closely together. Everyone had different design ideas and they worked together as they added each element to their buildings.<br />
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We also spent some time drawing skyscrapers during our writer's workshop this week. The kids incorporated some ideas from our building experiences to create their own version of a skyscraper. We talked about the importance of details when constructing a building and they definitely listened! These drawings were full of details. We saw buildings with many windows and doors. Some drew multiple buildings with the small buildings surrounding the larger ones. Some even drew trees, birds, and clouds to show us just how tall their skyscrapers were. The trees looked very small because the building was so big and the buildings were so tall that even the birds few beneath their tops! Some of the buildings also had lights on the top that would flash to warn airplanes that they were there. It was a lot of fun to see their imaginations at work on paper! We took notes of what they wrote about each building. I have added their words to each of their pictures below. Both the artwork and the sentences will also be adding to our hallway bulletin board.<br />
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We will be expanding on these drawings next week. They want to take their pictures and use them as a guide to build actual structures. We have started some of this already but it will be an ongoing project that I predict with last most of next week. They want to try to add every element of their drawing, including colors, so we will work on it as long as it takes! With this many buildings, we're looking for tons of cardboard and recycled items. If you have any cereal boxes, shoe boxes, egg cartons, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, etc, please bring them in! We'll take anything that you have laying around that you think might help us as we work on these structures. We're all so excited to see how these turn out!<br />
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I also want to welcome Daizah Green to our classroom! She is a USC student studying education. She is our new class intern for this semester and we are so excited to have her join our classroom family! She will be with us for half days on Wednesday and full days on Thursdays. Also, we will be welcoming a new student to our classroom starting Monday! Her name is Olivia. We have talked to the kids about ways that we can make her feel safe and welcomed in our classroom. They are very excited to meet her! We have such a sweet group of kiddos. I know they'll welcome her with open arms!<br />
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Love, <br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Show ability to focus attention for increasing variety of chosen tasks and activities for short periods of time (10-20 minutes).</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to organize actions and materials in the learning environment.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to follow through with tasks and activities. </li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time.</li>
<li>Demonstrate with adult guidance simple techniques to solve social problems. </li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play. </li>
<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following direction. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing. </li>
<li>Use drawings, letters, or words to create narratives about people and things in their environment. </li>
<li>Represent familiar people and experiences through art and language. </li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs and graphs to gain information about topics of interest. </li>
<li>Complete a thought or idea when communication with others. </li>
<li>Carry out simple directions and directives. </li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language. </li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Use emergent mathematical knowledge as a problem-solving tool.</li>
<li>Generate conjectures based on personal experiences and simple reasoning. </li>
<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems. </li>
<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Represent simple two-dimensional geometric shapes.</li>
<li>Compare lengths of two objects</li>
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Working in teams to build structures with different classroom materials. Our builders showed strong team work and creativity...</div>
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As architects, our first step is putting our thoughts on paper. Here we are brainstorming and sketching our buildings. In the pictures below you can see what we said about each of our sketches...</div>
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What a great week we've had learning and playing! If you remember from my post last week, we thought we'd be headed in the direction of hibernation and bears. However, I may have miscalculated the excitement of that study because it flopped on us pretty quickly. Which is totally fine! The fun of following the interests of the kids is that things are always changing and we make adjustments as we go. In case you didn't know, this class is obsessed with blocks. Which I love. I'm not really sure how we ended talking about blocks so much this week, but we're going to roll with it. We'll see how it goes! Blocks are such a great resource to use to meet every aspect of learning. It's something that the kids really enjoy and you can take it in so many different directions. The math and science concepts that come from block play are overflowing and it allows us to use language as we stretch our imaginations and build stories. This type of play is quickly turned into reading and writing about our block world. In other words...blocks are awesome! <br />
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To start this week we focused on our wooden blocks. We wanted to give the kids an idea of how the blocks are shaped and how the fit together. We've played with the wooden blocks a lot throughout the year but we've never taken the time to sit down and explore them. We started by working with all of the square and rectangle blocks (which come in several different lengths and sizes). We started with the largest block and had the kids individually make predictions as to how many of the other blocks it would take to match the length of our longest block. We ended up using 5 different blocks to stack and match lengths. For example, we discovered that it took 2 small rectangles to equal the length of the longest block. It also took 4 square blocks to do the same. As we predicted and stacked, we also traced our blocks (to have a visual of their size) and wrote the number next to the traced shapes. Michelle and I spent one on one time with each child as we did this so we could talk through the process and concept of measuring the lengths. <br />
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The kids really got excited about measuring. We've been using a lot of rulers and measuring tapes throughout the week. We've spent time measuring each of the different size blocks as well as different items around the room. We've measured tables, chairs, easels, toys, sinks, books, just about everything! They also thought it would be a good idea to measure items using blocks instead of rulers. As a result, much of our measuring talk has been in the form of blocks. We even spent a day measuring ourselves in blocks! This has been a wonderful opportunity for us to incorporate math concepts as we play. This type of play also extended as the kids started using snap cubes as a form of measurement. The kids went around the room with the bucket of cubes and a clipboard to find things to measure. They measured the length, mass, and perimeter of objects. They laid cubes on top of the objects and counted how many cubes would be needed to cover the whole mass of the objects. They also measured around the edges to find the perimeter. Once they measured and counted, they recorded their finding on their clipboard. We worked on writing numbers as well as sounding out words to write them. We learned that measuring doesn't have to only be done with rulers and measuring tapes. I'm hoping this week made us discover new ways to use our classroom materials for exploration!<br />
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We also played a little game that incorporated some lego play into our week (you know we had to!). We made some note cards with a different number on each one. Each child took a random number (anywhere from 8-13) and counted out that many legos or blocks of their choosing. Once they had the correct amount of blocks to match their card, they worked to create a structure using only that number of blocks. At first most of the kids thought it would be easier to make something if they drew a small number. However, we quickly found out that drawing a larger number made the task much easier. If you only have 8 blocks, you have to get much more creative in how to construct your structure! They used some serious creativity as they worked through this activity! We made the cards available to them throughout the week so this game became a fun part of our week!<br />
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We're excited to see where block play takes us next!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches To Learning: </u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner4 by questions and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to organize actions and materials in the learning environment. </li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities. </li>
<li>Stand up for rights much of the time. </li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibility, most of the time.</li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders. </li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Carry out simple directions and directives.</li>
<li>Complete a thought or idea when communicating with other.</li>
<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories. </li>
<li>Ask "how" and "why" questions about things in books and their environment. </li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs, and graphs to gain information about topics of interest. </li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class stories, rhymes or poems.</li>
<li>Makes some upper case letters without regard to proportion or placement. </li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Use nonstandard units of measure to compare everyday objects.</li>
<li>Compare the lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Represent simple two-dimensional geometric shapes.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Show one-to-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects. </li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
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We've been measuring everything in the classroom!...</div>
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We are mathematicians and problem solvers...working with numbers while we build...</div>
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We've had such a fun week back at school! I hope everyone enjoyed the winter break. The kids had so much to tell us and seemed very excited to be back. They spent a large part of Monday and Tuesday telling us all about time with family and friends, and of course all the presents they got and food they ate. We decided to spend this week wrapping up our dinosaur exploration. We didn't feel like it was concluded before break and many of the kids were still interested in learning more. They've continued to ask questions and we've been answering them through some reading and research. Just because we are moving on to something else definitely doesn't mean we're done with dinosaurs. They are quite fascinating and we'll continue to explore them and make references to them throughout the rest of the school year. <br />
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One question the kids have been asking was, how did dinosaurs become extinct? We spent some time talking about the word "theory" and what it meant. We concluded from our readings that there are two main theories as to why the dinosaurs became extinct. One theory is that a meteorite hit the Earth, causing some earthquakes and volcanoes. Of course the kids thought this idea of volcanoes was awesome! We decided it would be fun to make a little volcano of our own. We talked about the fact that volcanoes have lava inside them and with pressure and a lot of chemical reactions, the lava is forced out of the top. We decided to do a little volcano experiment to go along with this theory. We spent some time making dough to mold into a volcano. We took an empty soda bottle and, after mixing up our dough, formed a mountain of dough around our bottle. We placed it in a large pan covered in sand. Afterwards, we made our own volcano explosion! We filled the volcano with baking soda. We then poured vinegar (that we dyed red to look like lava) into the bottle and watched as lava came bubbling out of our volcano. The kids were hilarious. So much excitement!! We talked about the fact that baking soda and vinegar make a chemical reaction together that causes a lot of pressure and bubbles (kind of like a real volcano). We also had the opportunity to look at some lava glass. This is formed when magma cools very rapidly. I'm convinced that this was the highlight of their school week. It was pretty awesome! <br />
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The second main theory of dinosaur extinction is ice. We talked about the idea of the Earth becoming very cold and icing over. We discussed how this would effect all types of life, even our plants, trees, and bugs. We put some dinosaurs in ice and froze them overnight. We then let the kids use tools of their choice to excavate the dinosaurs from the ice. It was basically a wet cold mess, but they loved it! We even saw some great team work. Some kids realized that certain tools worked better than others for chopping up the ice. When they were done, they were quick to share their strategy with others who were still working. Once we got our dinosaurs out of the ice, we figured out which type they were and discussed their size and food preferences. We also discussed which tools worked, which didn't, and why we think some worked better than others. We learned that some plastic toys and sticks from our nature area were not very helpful in cracking ice. However, our wooden blocks and rocks got the job done! I wish I could have captured some of their reactions when they finally excavated their dinosaur...they were priceless! <br />
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We've had a really fun time exploring dinosaurs and we've learned a lot! For next week, we will be starting a new exploration on hibernation. The talk of snow this weekend is part of the reason this subject came up. Also, one of our students brought in a book about polar bears which ended up playing perfectly into our discussion of snow. My mom also sent me an article full of pictures of snowflakes under a microscope. We were amazed to see the differences in design and shape of all these flakes. All of these small things together got us discussing winter and the cold, which lead to us wondering about animals that live outside in these conditions. This is part of what I love about teaching 4 year olds. You never know what exploration will come up next! We're excited to see where this one takes us.<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Reason about events, relationships, and events.</li>
<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Try to solve problems encountered in play.</li>
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following directions.</li>
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<li>Contribute to small group or whole class stories, rhymes or poems.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class dictation activities.</li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Sort and classify objects by one attribute.</li>
<li>Identify the positions firth through tenth using concrete objects.</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
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Excavating dinosaurs from the ice. We are great problem solvers!...</div>
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Making our exploding volcano! We are scientist...</div>
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Fascinated by the volcano glass...</div>
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It's been a great week in the Tzemach class! Our dinosaur exploration is in full swing and we're having a blast! We've been asking a lot of questions and doing a lot of research. We've made some pretty cool discoveries, such as learning about the world's largest known dinosaur. We've also been talking a lot about Chanukah. We'll be continuing our study of this holiday into next week as well. You may notice that we've changed out our "Jewish Studies" table. It now contains a menorah, dreidels, and a large collections of Chanukah books for the kids to read and learn more about the holiday. <br />
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All the talk of imprints last week, led us to talking about dinosaur footprints and the possible fossils these prints would make. This conversation evolved into us studying the world's biggest dinosaurs. Through our exploration we found out that the largest dinosaurs are in a group called "sauropods". These types of dinosaurs are characterized by having long tails and necks, as well as large tree-trunk size legs. We were amazed to learn that these dinosaurs dwarfed all the others...including the big T-Rex...because in the mind of a 4 year old, the T-Rex is the biggest of them all :) We made some predictions about how big we thought the largest dinosaur footprint would be. After some research we found out that the largest one recorded is over 4 feet in diameter. We decided to get some paper and make a huge dinosaur footprint that measured the same size. We then did some predicting of how many kids we thought could fit into that one dinosaur footprint. The kids also took off their shoes and compared the difference in size between their foot and the dinosaur footprint. We came to the conclusion that 9 kids could fit in that one dinosaur footprint! <br />
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One question asked at the beginning of our study was, what do dinosaurs eat? We found information about this from our books (thank you to everyone who brought in dino books for us to read!). We divided dinosaurs into 2 categories: carnivores and herbivores. We spent some time going through our books and talking about each dinosaur specifically. We focused mainly on what they ate, where the probably lived, and their size. We also pulled out some magazines and cut out different pictures of meats and plants. After cutting, we divided them into categories and then glued them to posters of the different types of dinosaurs. We learned that even though the T-Rex was the biggest meat eater, the herbivore dinosaurs were actually the biggest in size! We also learned that many of these dinosaurs were extremely smart and used a lot of skill when hunting for food. We learned that most of the plant eaters had to be larger in size so that they could eat leaves from the tops of trees. The kids even turned some lunches into discussions of whether they were having a carnivore or herbivore lunch day!<br />
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Throughout the week, we've been discussing the word "archeologist". To become archeologist ourselves, we did some research on bones and skeletons. We read some boks about how archeologist uncover these bones and how they piece them together. During center time, we made an archeologist station available for the kids. We laid out some recycled pieces from our creation station and even some items from nature. We encouraged the kids to use these pieces to form their own dinosaur skeletons. We let the kids make the dinosaur skeletons however they chose to make it. We did lay out some books for them to thumb through as they chose which dinosaur they wanted to represent. I love how these turned out! This led to discussions about how many bones a dinosaur actually had. After some research we discovered that the T-Rex had around 200 bones! You can find these skeleton creations in the hallway on our bulletin board. <br />
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We're excited to see where our exploration takes us next week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories. </li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs and graphs to gain information about topics of interest.</li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class stories, rhymes or poems.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class dictation activities.</li>
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<li>Identify the positions firth through tenth using concrete objects.</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-38143535315350798502016-12-02T10:16:00.002-08:002016-12-02T10:16:13.415-08:00Dinosaurs...ROAR!Hello family and friends!<br />
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It's been a great week in the Tzemach class! We've really enjoyed hearing about everyone's Thanksgiving break. It's been a great week for us to readjust and get back into the swing of things. We had a lot going on this week, including saying good bye to our Math Buddies. As you all know, the kids absolutely love Math Buddy time and we are so thankful to have had a fun semester with Rabbi Meir's students! As a fun good bye activity, the kids made play dough with their buddy using flour, salt, corn starch, oil, and paint. They had a blast! I'm sure they were very excited to show off the play dough. We also got to visit with a 1 year old goat this week. The kids enjoyed petting it and asking questions about the goat. It was a last minute activity that we didn't plan on, but definitely enjoyed!<br />
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We also started a new exploration this week...DINOSAURS! Of course the kids have been giddy about this new exploration and it was an easy transition from dirt as we talked about fossils during our dirt explorations. We started this exploration off as we always do, with a KWL chart. The kids knew a lot about dinosaurs but they also came up with some pretty awesome questions. Some questions were about specific types of dinosaurs but the majority covered the species as a whole. Throughout our study we will end up touching on both the individual types as well as the species in general. I'm excited to see what we discover!<br />
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One question we had was about fossils. Using books, we were able to find out a lot of new facts about fossils. We learned that fossils were formed over a very long period of time. Throughout that length of time, the dinosaur bones actually turned into stone, which is what we know as a fossil. We also learned that fossils come in different forms. Some insects have been preserved in hard pieces of sap for thousands of years! We also learned that some fossils are actually called imprints. This is when an animal or plant leaves it's imprint in mud, which is eventually filled with sand, and finally turns into stone. We decided to make our own imprints. We have a box full of realistic miniature size dinosaur skeletons. There was a wide variety of dinosaurs so we let each child pick which dinosaur interested them the most. We then made our own salt dough and pressed the skeleton into the dough, in order to make a dinosaur imprint. We then cooked the dough until it became hard (like the imprint fossils found today). This was a great way for us to start our exploration and learn the names of some different dinosaurs. It gave the kids a lot to talk about and many more questions to ask!<br />
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After our fossil imprints were dry, we decided to do some research on our dinosaurs. We sat down one on one with the kids and talked about their fossil. After figuring out the name of our fossil's dinosaur, we looked through books to learn more about them. We let the kids search through the books to find pictures of their specific dinosaur. Once they found a page that interested them, we read through the pages together. Our goal after reading was to have an understanding of a few interesting facts about their dinosaur. After we felt that we finished our book exploration with each child, we let them draw a picture of their dinosaur based on what they learned. The kids talked with us through their drawings, giving details about the different body parts of their dinosaur and their uses. They labeled their drawing with the dinosaur name and we asked them to share some facts they learned about their dinosaur. This will allow you can see both the dinosaur and it's skeletal imprint!<br />
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Our research on dinosaurs took a lot more time that I thought it would. The kids spent several days enjoying the books and working with their fossils. This cut out some other activities we were planning but we'd much rather take our time when they're enjoying it so much! We're excited to see where this dinosaur exploration takes us next!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<li>Represent familiar people and experiences through art and language.</li>
<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing. </li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>Creates a picture and labels it orally.</li>
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<li>Compare the lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Show one-to-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects.</li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations.</li>
<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems. </li>
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It's been a great week in the Tzemach class! With Thanksgiving approaching, we've been spending some time talking about the holiday and what it means to us. Of course, we are still exploring dirt and having fun with that as well! We started the week by asking the kids what they thought "thanksgiving" meant. The majority of our answers revolved around food and playing. It opened the door for some great conversations about time spent with family and friends. <br />
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One of the main things we wanted to focus on through our study was the idea of being thankful. We discussed that being thankful is something we feel all through the year...not just on Thanksgiving. We discussed the definition of being "thankful" and agreed that it meant "to be glad you have something in your life". We decided that we tend to be thankful for the things we love and the things that mean the most to us. After talking and reading about being thankful we made a classroom thankful tree. We had the students make leaves (in any shape they wanted). They then cut them out, and wrote a word to describe what they were thankful for. After making our leaves, we decided that we wanted to use real sticks as our tree. We were able to find a nice branch that had some real leaves and acorns still on, so we thought that one would be perfect! After we finished our leaves, we hung them on our tree. We told the kids that they could add to our tree whenever they wanted to. Anytime they thought of another reason to be thankful, they could make a new leave and hang it up. We have added a hold puncher in our art center for them to use and explore. The kids have really been excited about this activity and have made everything by themselves! Their tree is sitting in the hallway under our bulletin board. If you have time, stop by and read some of their sweet notes!<br />
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During our thankful discussion we also decided it might be fun to make our own book. This is something that the kids have started doing on their own during their center time. Many of them pull out paper throughout the day and staple it and draw pictures. I think some of this was encouraged by the kindergarten class a few weeks ago. They came by our classroom with homemade books and read them to us...which the kids loved! Making books has been a hobby in our room ever since. We titled our books, "My Thankful Book". At the top of each page there is written, "I am thankful for...". In our room during read alouds, we talk a lot about what it means to be authors and illustrators. We brought this discussion up again before starting our books. We reminded the kids that they would be both the author and illustrator of this book as they would be the ones to write their thankful words and draw pictures to go along with them. This was a great time for them to focus on the beginning stages of writing. We were so impressed with how sweet and meaningful these books turned out! Several of the children were so proud of their book that they wanted to read them to the class. They chose to sit in the "teacher chair" and read their book to their friends. We made this completely optional for the kids so no one felt pressured. Both the readers and listeners seemed to really enjoy this time!<br />
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Throughout these discussions of being thankful, we have also touched on the idea of traditions. We talked about the fact that each family is different and has different ways that they celebrate Thanksgiving. We talked about differences in the foods we eat, the people we spend time with, the languages spoken in our homes, where our families come from, and any other ideas that the kids brought to the table. We found out that we all have some similarities and differences. We were able to share in our similarities and learn through our differences. It was a great discussion that will hopefully have the kids talking at home about your own family life and traditions. If anyone has any special traditions they'd like share with the class, we'd love to hear about them through pictures, artifacts, etc. Feel free to bring some stuff in or stop by to share your traditions with the class.<br />
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We also had the great opportunity of visiting the 2nd grade classroom this week! On our visit, they gave us a presentation on American Indians. They have been researching 4 different tribes from South Carolina. This was a great way for us to learn about a different culture while getting to visit the elementary school. We were able to learn so much from these 4 presentations! We learned about the culture and lifestyle of each tribe, as well as their strengths and how they are similar to us. The kids were so engaged! They made comments and asked questions. We asked the 2nd graders to include us in any of their other presentations this school year, as it was enjoyed by everyone involved!<br />
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I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Reason about events, relationships, or problems. </li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one more more ways.</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps. </li>
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following direction. </li>
<li>Participate in group life of class.</li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play. </li>
<li>Express fears and concerns to familiar adults.</li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u></div>
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<li>Represent familiar people and experiences through art and language.</li>
<li>Use drawings, letters, or words to create narratives about people and things in their environment.</li>
<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing.</li>
<li>Makes some upper case letters without regard to proportion or placement.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language. </li>
<li>Creates a pictures and labels it orally.</li>
<li>Describe events of personal significance.</li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u></div>
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purposes.</li>
<li>Use nonstandard units of measure to compare everyday objects.</li>
<li>Compare the lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Understand and use positional words to describe the locations of objects (up, down, in, over, under, behind, on top of and in front of).</li>
<li>Identify and copy simple patterns.</li>
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Making leaves and decorating our thankful tree...</div>
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It has been a fun and messy week in the Tzemach class! We've been having so much fun playing in the dirt and learning all about it. This week we spent a whole morning playing in the woods. On our adventure we were looking for different types of dirt. We dug up some samples to bring to our science center and also collected some awesome pieces of nature to enjoy in the classroom! The woods play was so much fun and the kids were in heaven. We all put on our boots and literally walked in the middle of the creek. They were pouring water and mud out of their boots and laughing about it the whole time. Some of them fell in the water and thought it was the best thing that's happened at school all year! It was a great time of watching them show compassion and building friendships as they helped one another climb up the creek banks and out of the water. Some of us even found some "sinking sand". The other kids came to his rescue with long sticks for him to hold as they pulled him out. It was sweet and hilarious! We also did some tree and vine climbing. As we walked through the different area of our woods, we had conversations about the different colors and texture of the dirt we encountered. We also made note of all the smells, sights, and sounds that we experienced. I wish I could have shown you the classroom when we got back! The kids were stripping down faster than we could stop them to put on clean clothes and were dumping water and mud from boots all over the floor. It was well worth the mess! We had a great time and we can't wait for our next woods day!<br />
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As we've been talking about different types of dirt, we decided to do a little experiment to further explore the different elements of dirt by making a sediment jar. While in the woods we dug a fairly deep hole and filled a mason jar half full with the soil sample. We then added water to the jar and covered it with a lid. We shook the jar for awhile to mix the soil with the water and then let the jar sit for the day. Throughout the day, we noticed that the soil began to settle and the water rose to the top. We discussed that as the soil settles, it divides itself into layers. We discovered that the largest sediment settled to the bottom first (these were our pebbles and rocks), followed by sand, silt, clay, and random matter or decay (such as sticks and pine needles). This has been a great way for us to get a different perspective on soil and it's many layers. The kids seemed to enjoy watching the jar throughout the day. We left magnifying glasses out near the jar to encourage the kids to document the process as they watched it. We'll be keeping this jar in our science center for awhile since the kids have enjoyed watching and documenting the process.<br />
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While we were in the woods we also collected a large amount of nature. We've made painting with nature before but we thought it would good to give the kids an opportunity to make 3D artwork with our woods findings. We dumped out everything we had gathered and put some clay out. We let the kids use their imagination and motor skills to create art. I love what they created! We made people, bugs, snowmen, magic wands, transformers, just about anything you can imagine. They took their time and got into this process. As each child worked, I walked around and asked them to tell me about their 3D artwork. I documented what they said so you can talk with them about it. These awesome pieces of work will be put on display in the hallway soon, so keep an eye out! We will also be adding pictures of our woods adventure and our dirt painting on the bulletin board with the artwork.<br />
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Aside from all our dirt fun, we had the opportunity to have some of the kindergarteners come to our class and read books to us. They have been working on writing their own fiction books so they were very proud to show them off. Our class loved it! They were engaged in the stories and thought some of them were hilarious. We love when we find opportunities to do things with other classes. It's a great way for us to learn from one another and make some new friends. We're hoping to have a few more of them come back to read to us again next week!<br />
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Love,<br />
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Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questioning and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions.</li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders.</li>
<li>Use classroom materials responsibly, most of the time. </li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time. </li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u><br />
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin asking "how and why" questions when looking at texts.</li>
<li>Incorporate information from informational texts into play activities.</li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs, and graphs to gain information about topics of interest.</li>
<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories. </li>
<li>Make connections to prior knowledge, other texts, and the world in response to texts read aloud.</li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purposes.</li>
<li>Compare lengths of two objects.</li>
<li>Represent simply tow-dimensional geometric shapes.</li>
<li>Sort and classify objects by one attribute.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than ten objects using the terms "more than" or "same as".</li>
<li>Count orally forward to twenty and backward from three.</li>
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We love the woods! And dirt!...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-25166566830576487722016-11-04T10:39:00.003-07:002016-11-04T10:39:36.900-07:00We Love Dirt!Hello family and friends!<br />
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I feel like it's been so long since I've written an official blog entry. It's great to be back on here telling you all about our weekly adventures! As you know, we've been doing a lot during the past few weeks. Mainly, learning about all these wonderful Jewish holidays that we've been celebrating. With a new month here, we decided to dive into a new exploration. As with all of our new explorations, we talk about the children's interests and allow the class to pick one. This week the kids voted on DIRT! This did not surprise us at all. The kids have become obsessed with digging and rolling in the dirt on the playground...as I'm sure you can tell from the condition of shoes and clothes when you pick up :) I don't think I've had a class as excited about digging. They are so much fun!<br />
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As always, we started by talking about what we know about dirt and some ways we enjoy playing in the dirt. We've been spending time on the playground digging and using our imaginations. This week we've made roads with dirt and trucks. We've also opened up bakeries and restaurants, as well as digging for fossils and artifacts! As we've been digging outside, we've noticed how the consistency of the dirt changes the deeper we dig. This has opened up discussions of different types of dirt and how they can be used differently. We've also been finding tons of rocks! I feel like this exploration may extend into rocks since the kids have started quite the collection, but we'll see. Here is a list of some things the kids have noticed about dirt this week...<br />
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- worm live in dirt<br />
- you put seeds in it<br />
- you plant flowers in it<br />
- you plant trees in it<br />
- you can dig with shovels and sticks<br />
- you can dig a big hole in it<br />
- you can play in it<br />
- dirt makes you dirty!<br />
- clay is in dirt<br />
- sand is in dirt<br />
- worms can slide through it<br />
- you can use dump trucks in it<br />
- you can make mud pies with it<br />
- water and dirt make mud<br />
- dirt makes bug come out when it rains<br />
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Along with all the playing we've been doing with dirt, we've also been using dirt in different ways throughout our center time. One activity we did was put dirt in shallow bins for the kids to write and draw in. Some children chose to use their fingers while others used sticks. We laid out all of our "heart" words (or frequently used words that we're learning to recognize and spell). This was a great way for them to practice learning these new words as well as work on their names. Others enjoyed drawing pictures and playing made up games with friends in the dirt.<br />
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We also did some painting with dirt this week! We put our dirt paint in a bucket and let the kids use their hands to paint a picture with it. It was great, messy fun! As we painted, we talked about how the dirt felt, smelled, looked, and it's importance to our environment. This was more of a sensory activity than anything, but they really enjoyed making art with a new medium. We will probably pull this out throughout the rest of the year. It was a hit! It was also a great time for us to discuss dirt and what we'd like to learn about it.<br />
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Speaking of sensory item, we got off track with the dirt one day this week when we discovered water beads! If you haven't heard of them before, they are VERY tiny little beads of different colors. As they soak in water, they expand in size and turn into soft, slippery, balls that have been a blast to play with. Even I could sit there all center time and play with them! The kids have explored them using the light table, magnifying glasses, and have also enjoyed sorting them. They're also extremely bouncy, which of course the kids have loved! When we first pulled them out, they were new to all of us. We weren't sure exactly how big they would get or what would happen so we made some hypothesis and let them kids cover them in water. They really enjoyed watching them grow throughout the day. Feel free to go into our science center and feel them. They're a lot of fun!<br />
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We'll be doing a lot more with dirt next week! I will try to remember to send out an email this week, but we are planning to go into the woods on Monday. This won't be a typical day in the woods. We are going to let the kids go crazy in the dirt and bring back plenty of soil samples. There is a lot of mud out there so please make sure you bring an extra pair of clothes and shoes, as we expect to get completely filthy! We're excited to see how it goes!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge. </li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences.</li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one or more ways.</li>
<li>Try to solve problems encountered in play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to follow through with tasks and activities. </li>
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following direction.</li>
<li>Participate in group life of class.</li>
<li>Demonstrate strategies to join play group with adult support.</li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time. </li>
<li>Manage transitions positively when told what to expect. </li>
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Retell one or town events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Incorporate information from informational texts into play activities.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>use drawings, letters, or words to create narratives about people and things in their environment.</li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems. </li>
<li>Classify objects in their environment by color, shape, size, or function.</li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
<li>Sort and classify objects by one attribute.</li>
<li>Represent simple two-dimensional geometric shapes.</li>
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Busy baking and building roads...</div>
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Literacy and art with dirt!...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-27177528397794421662016-10-14T09:59:00.001-07:002016-10-14T09:59:10.337-07:00October Fun!Hello family and friends!<br />
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I feel like it's been awhile since I've been on our blog! As I mentioned before, on our short weeks, I usually send out an email with a recap of our week and a few pictures. Since we were at school most of this week, I thought I'd jump on and give you an update of all the fun we've been having! I hope all of our Jewish families have had restful and meaningful holidays so far.<br />
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Since the month of October involves several "home days" and is full of Jewish holidays, we took a little break from our normal explorations. It's been an awesome time for us to talk about these important holidays and spend some time learning about our new interests. One morning, a student started telling everyone about a new topic that they were interested in...mushrooms. This started a whole conversation about new interests. We decided that we would pull our chart down and make some updates. We added a lot of topics! We'll be taking a vote soon and dive into something new. Here are some things that the kids are currently interested in...<br />
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Audrey: mushrooms<br />
Yael: clocks<br />
Adam: watermelons<br />
Sylvia: raspberries<br />
Emma: flags<br />
Ellie: grass<br />
Callie: dirt<br />
Sophia: yarn and how it's made<br />
Paxton: rocket ships<br />
Harley: princesses<br />
Yishai: helicopters<br />
Oscar: railroad trains<br />
Grady: butterflies<br />
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Just because we haven't started a new exploration, doesn't mean we haven't been crazy busy! We've been spending a lot of time during Torah Time and in our classroom talking about the different Jewish holidays. We've been discussing what these holidays are, why they're important, and how they are celebrated. One of the holidays coming up is Sukkot. We spent some time this week making our own sukkahs in the classroom! The kids came up with this idea while we were on the playground. A man came by and was trimming the bushes while we were out there. They were following behind him picking up everything that dropped to the ground. They then ran over and asked if we could take these inside and use them to make our own sukkahs. These kids are geniuses! We gave the kids complete control of this activity. Some chose not to make one, while others moved around the room using all different types of materials. They used wooden blocks, legos, egg cartons, yarn, nature objects, just about everything. They were so proud of these! This was a great way for us to talk about the holiday as we played. Next week, we will be eating snack in a real sukkah provided by the synagogue!<br />
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We also spent one day doing a science experiment. We made pumpkin slime and the kids went crazy! This is basically a mixture of glue, hot water, liquid starch (or Borax), food coloring, and we used some pumpkin pie spice to add a fun smell. When the starch mixture meets the glue, it instantly becomes a wet, slimy mess. We let the kids do all the mixing and stirring. Once it started to turn into slim, they used their hands to knead everything together. The final product turns into a stretchy, smooth type of "slim", that thankfully doesn't stick to tables! We hope your kids enjoyed it at home as much as they did at school. It was so much fun to watch their expressions as the slime began to form. I tried to capture it on camera the best I could...enjoy :)<br />
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We have become quit the little collectors of nature lately! Our centers are quickly filling up with leaves, sticks, rocks, grass, pine cones, and all types of pretty nature. We decided to do some painting with pieces of nature brought into the classroom. We used things such as pine cones, grass, rocks, and leaves. We taped each objects onto a big stick and let the kids paint with the different textures. The result was some awesome artwork filled with different colors and textures! We talked about the different textures and materials as we worked. We hope to make this a regular activity in our classroom now.<br />
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We also spent one day exposing the kids to our creation station. This has been available to the kids throughout the whole school year, but we felt like it wasn't getting used much. We decided to pull everything out of our creation station and put it on our long table. We stayed near the table for guidance and encouraged the kids to come over and explore some of the loose parts in our room. They made all types of amazing creations with things such as egg cartons, paper towel holders, bulletin board borders, tissue paper, basically all the random things we've been able to find around school and at home. We're guessing they hadn't used these items because we hadn't officially offered them to play in this area. Once we introduced it, it's been non stop play...which we love! If you have any random items at home that you could donate to our creation station, the kids would love it! We take just about everything!<br />
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It was such a fun week of learning and playing! I hope you've enjoyed all the sukkahs and artwork that have been coming home this week :)<br />
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Love, <br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questions and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions.</li>
<li>Understand that a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers activities and materials.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Develop strategies to express strong emotion with adult help.</li>
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<li>Classify objects and information by observable attributes into predetermined categories.</li>
<li>Ask "how" and "why" questions about things in books and their environment.</li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs and graphs to gain information about topics of interest.</li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class dictation activities. </li>
<li>Understand relationship between print and pictures on page. </li>
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects. </li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purposes.</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-68695401224135732552016-09-30T10:41:00.002-07:002016-09-30T10:41:23.883-07:00We Are Otter Experts!Hello family and friends!<br />
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It's been a great week in the Tzemach class! We've been doing some serious otter exploring and I've been so impressed with how much the kids have learned. The kids seem to be ready to move on to another topic. I will talk to them about it again next week to make sure that's their decision. If it is, then we'll move on to another exploration of their choice. If not, then we'll enjoy learning more about otters.<br />
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To start our week, we learned about a young otter pup that was rescued off the coast of Washington. One of our parents found out about him and sent me the link. The kids have been fascinated by him! We did some research and learned that his name is Rialto and that he was found abandoned on the coast. He was rescued and taken to a vet where they learned that he was suffering from pneumonia and gastrointestinal issues. They were able to treat him and place him in the care of the Vancouver Zoo. At the zoo, they are caring for him and helping to rehabilitate him. They have also set up webcams so that he can be watched online. This has been awesome for us to watch him play! We've witnessed him be being bottle fed, playing with toys in a crib made of pvc pipe and net, and watched him swim in a small pool. As we've watched him, we've learned that since he's a sea otter his paws are webbed. From reading our books, we learned that this isn't the case for all otters. We've been able to watch how he swims, plays and eats. We kept this webcam up on our computer during each day this week. It was sweet to watch the kids check on him. We even noticed this expanding into their play as they made safe pools and cribs for baby otters with our wooden blocks. Here is a link to the webcam if you'd like to follow him along with us...http://www.vanaqua.org/learn/see-and-learn/live-cams/baby-otter .<br />
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Lately, the kids have loved doing surveys in the classroom! We've been learning how to draw columns, each titled with either a "yes" or "no". We noticed that most of these surveys lately have been focused on otters. Since we've learned so many facts, we were curious so see how much others already knew about otters. We gave the option to the kids to walk the preschool hall and ask otter survey questions to the different classes. Not all of them wanted to, but everyone wanted to go on the walk. Those that did ask questions, went to several classrooms asking their question and then marking it on their clipboard. When we came back to the room, we talked about the different answers that we received. We learned from this experience that we've become some pretty great otter experts! This was a great way for us to express what we knew about otters and for us to mingle with the other classrooms. We were even able to teach them some facts along the way!<br />
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This study of otters has really gotten the kids interested in non fiction books. We've been doing a lot of comparing and contrasting fiction and non fiction books. As we've studied these, we've also talked about the jobs of an author, illustrator, and the publishing company (which we learned will always be listed on the title page). All of this led us to writing some of our own books. We thought it would be fun to make a big class non fiction books about otters. The kids thought this would be a great way to show other people everything that we've learned about otters!<br />
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To start our book, each child told us their favorite fact about otters that they've learned so far. After discussing this fact with us, they drew a picture on their page that went along with their fact. As we explored our books, we realized that the pictures always match the words on the page. We were careful to do the same as we wrote our book so that others could use our pictures as clues as to what the page was about. Some of the kids chose to put words on their page, others only wanted to draw. We did not set any limits to their work so each page is done however the child felt like creating it. Michelle and I wrote down their facts and printed them so that they could be glued to each page. <br />
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The following day, we learned about editors and publishers. We did some editing and publishing of our own! We let each child sit down with their page a second time. We asked them if there was anymore details they'd like to add or any edits they wanted to make. Once they finished their editing, we read them the fact that they told us the previous day and asked them to put it in a pile based on the theme. During our morning meeting that day, the kids agreed that our books should have similar topics placed together. So, anyone with a fact about food, put their page in the food pile. Anyone with a baby fact, put their page in the baby pile. We went through this process with each child and worked together to figure out the best layout for our book. Once the kids had it the way they wanted it, several of them worked together to make a front cover. We then laminated the book and bound it together. We hope you love our first book! It will on display in our science center with our other non fiction books. We've learned so much from this exploration, and we hope you did too!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questions and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Demonstrate growing initiative in selecting and carrying out activities. </li>
<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time.</li>
<li>Manage transitions positively when told what to expect.</li>
<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following direction.</li>
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<u>Language & Literacy:</u></div>
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<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Incorporate favorite parts of literary texts into play activities. </li>
<li>begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books. </li>
<li>Begin asking "how and why" questions when looking at texts.</li>
<li>Use drawings, letters, or words to create narratives about people and things in their environment. </li>
<li>Begin to use classroom resources such as books, charts, photographs and graphs to gain information about topics of interest.</li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u></div>
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<li>Generate conjectures based on personal experiences and simple reasoning.</li>
<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Begin to show an awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4.</li>
<li>Associate at least two measurement devices with their purpose.</li>
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Our finished book! In case you didn't get to see it in the hall today...</div>
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It's been a fun week in the Tzemach class! As you read in my last post, the kids were ready to move on from apple orchards and honeybees. Of course, we are continuing to talk about them as they tie in so closely with Rosh Hashanah (dipping apples in honey to represent a sweet new year). However, we've officially started talking about a new exploration. The kids voted from their list of interests that they create at the beginning of the school year. An overwhelming number of kids chose to explore otters! Michelle and I were excited about this because we don't know much about these animals. It's always fun when we get to learn alongside the kids.<br />
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To start our exploration, we made our KWL chart. We found that we knew a few things about otters but definitely had more questions with this exploration. We've also been reading a lot of books about otters. Some of these are from the library and some were brought in by the kids. We have loved all the books about otters brought from home! They've provided us with a lot of information and have even helped us answer some of our questions already. As we read our books, we refer to the questions we've asked. It's also a great time for us to add more questions to our list. Here is a list of all the things we already know about otters and all the things we're wondering about...<br />
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<u>Know:</u><br />
- They play in water.<br />
- They swim a lot.<br />
- They live in the ocean.<br />
- They eat fish.<br />
- They are mammals.<br />
- Some live in different types of water.<br />
- They are soft and furry.<br />
- They pop their heads out of the water.<br />
- They use their bellies as a table.<br />
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<u>Wondering:</u><br />
- Do they eat fish?<br />
- What is their hair like?<br />
- How do they play?<br />
- What do they eat?<br />
- How do they swim?<br />
- Where do they live?<br />
- Do they live in different oceans?<br />
- Do they live on the beach?<br />
- Do they have fuzzy babies?<br />
- What do the babies look like?<br />
- Do they dive in the water?<br />
- How do the babies eat?<br />
- How do the babies grow?<br />
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As we've been reading, one of the things we've learned a lot about is the size of different types of otters. We found out that a Sea Otter only measures 2 feet long and the Giant River Otter measures 6 feet long. We used measuring tape and rulers to find that the Giant River Otter is much longer than the Sea Otter. In fact, it's the biggest otter species in the whole world! We left the measuring tape and rulers out during center time and asked the kids if they could find some objects in the room that were the same size as the otters we've been learning about. We told them that they could document their information in any way they would like. Most of them walked around in groups or with a partner measuring just about everything in the room! Some wanted to document using tally marks. This is a concept that we've been talking about as we vote. We've discussed how this is a quick and easy way to count and document findings. Some chose to use words to write what they measured. While this writing is inventive, it's an important first step to their writing and reading skills! They're learning to understand that letters form together to make words and that letters have a sound that go with them. You'll begin to see this writing change and develop throughout the year. What may look like squiggly lines and a page full of random letters will soon turn into recognizable letters and joining of several letters together with spacing for a new word. This is one of my favorite forms of development to watch throughout the school year!<br />
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One of our students told us that they saw a picture of a Sea Otter in the hallways drawn by one of the big kids. I asked her to show me where it was. We went for a short hunt and found it. We read what the older student had written and then found her and asked her if she would come to our room and teach us about otters since she recently became an expert herself! She was thrilled! Mika is a 4th grader and was so sweet to come and educate us on otters. She told us some interesting facts that she learned and then allowed the kids to ask questions. Mika taught us about the different parts of the otter and what they're used for. We also learned that they were nocturnal so that they could more easily catch the fish at night. We also learned that otters will wrap their babies in kelp when they go down into the water to hunt. The kelp is rooted to the ocean floor so by wrapping them in the kelp they will be able to float on the top of the water and not drift away. This was one of our favorite facts! We were so excited to have a "big kid" come talk with us and hang out with us!<br />
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We've also spent some time talking about otter habitats and the reason they live in the areas that they do. One thing we learned is that otters build dens using sticks, moss, leaves, and other soft pieces of nature. We read that they make these dens in order to stay safe and to provide a safe haven for their babies. We decided to try building our own otter den! We found pieces of nature and went to work. We used sticks, pine cones, and leaves to try to construct a den. As we did this, we looked at pictures of real dens built by otters. We quickly learned that these otters must take a lot of time to build their dens and must be very hard workers! It's a lot harder than we thought! This was a great way for us to learn to appreciate these animals and use team work as we planned building strategies. <br />
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Since we've been talking about otters, we've obviously been learning a lot about different types of water and it's locations. We have been amazed at how much these animals can swim! This progressed into us talking about things that sink and float. We used this opportunity to do a sink or float activity with the kids. We made this an extension of our center time so the kids could come and play in the water if they chose too. As we tested different items from nature and our classroom, we made predictions. We got clipboards and each child made a chart with 2 columns, one for sink and one for float. After we tested items we either wrote or drew a picture in the appropriate column. They had a blast...of course, because it's water play!<br />
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We'll be continuing our study next week. We're excited to see what we learn next about these interesting creatures!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaching to Learning</u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Show curiosity in an increasing variety of activities, tasks, and learning centers.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learner by questioning and adding ideas.</li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions. </li>
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<u>Social and Emotional</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Stand up for rights much of the time.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders.</li>
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<u>Language and Literacy</u><br />
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<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing.</li>
<li>Begin to identify significant words from text read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books.</li>
<li>Incorporate information from informational texts into play activities.</li>
<li>Display curiosity and interest in learning new words.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>Make some upper case letters without regard to proportion or placement.</li>
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<u>Mathematics</u><br />
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<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
<li>Count orally forward to twenty and backward from three.</li>
<li>Show one-on-one correspondence through ten when counting real objects.</li>
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Using nature to build our otter dens...</div>
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Measuring classroom objects and comparing them to the size of otters...</div>
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Mika presenting to us about otters!...</div>
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Learners hard at work...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-49932315863086583872016-09-16T15:10:00.001-07:002016-09-16T15:10:23.683-07:00Honeybees!Hello family and friends!<br />
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This has been such a fun week in the Tzemach class! We've really been diving deep into the world of bees and we've learned so much. We took a little vote this morning to see whether or not the kids wanted to continue with this exploration or move on to something new. The large majority voted to move on so we'll be starting a brand new exploration next week. We will meet with the kids on Monday to see what it will be!<br />
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Before I explain all the exciting bee stuff we've been doing, I want to tell you something new we started this week. This week we met with a small group of women from a local assisted living home. We split up into groups with these women and they talked to us and read us all types of wonderful books. The kids really seemed to enjoy it. They were engaged in conversation and had so much to tell me about the stories that they read. This group of women have decided to come out once a month and read to us, the three year old classroom, and the kindergarten classroom. These women couldn't stop telling me how excited they were to work with the kids and how sweet they are. I am so excited that we have the opportunity to work with them. I think it's going to be a sweet benefit to both the women and our students!<br />
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We have been loving our bee exploration! The kids have been asking tons of questions and we've been visiting the beehive almost daily. To start our week, we learned how a beehive is made, what different types of bees live in it, and what each bees role is in the colony. We started by asking, what shape is a beehive? We learned that they come in many different shapes and sizes but that each one is similar in the fact that all of them contain "cells", or little holes where the honey is stored. We made some predictions about what shape we thought these cells might be. We pulled out our pattern blocks and searched through them to find different shapes. We asked each child to pick out a pattern block that matched the shape of what they thought the cells looked like. Afterwards, we made our way to the beehive. We held up our shapes and compared them to the actual hive. We learned that each cell is a small hexagon, containing six sides. We're still amazed that these bees can create such a consistent and beautiful shape to each cell!<br />
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All this talk of shapes and checking out the hive got us wanting to make our own beehive. We went back to the room and pulled out all of our hexagon pattern blocks and made a beehive with them. We then got some paper and pencils and drew our own bees. We cut them out and played with our pattern blocks. As we played, we talked about the different roles of the bees. Some of the kids asked questions about the queen bee and baby bees. We pulled out books while the kids played and I read to them facts based on questions that they had.<br />
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We also made a giant beehive using egg cartons. After another visit to the hive to think about colors, we decided to paint our beehive brown. Once we finished painting, we moved on to making our own bees to live in our hive. We used pipe cleaners, wine corks, and wiggly eyes to make some seriously cute baby bees! Afterwards, we decided that we needed to add some honey and pollen to our hive. I told the kids that it was up to them to find some materials in the room to represent pollen and honey for our hive. These kids seriously impressed me. They came back with the idea of a light brown play dough and yellow crumpled up paper. This is exactly why I let them lead this project, because their ideas were so much better than mine! This has been a huge project that has taken us all week! It's on display in the hallway so I hope you enjoy it. The kids are super proud of it...as they should be! As we made this giant beehive, we continued to ask and answer questions. It was a great time of team work and learning.<br />
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Of course we had to spend time this week tasting honey! We sampled some one day and it quickly turned into tasting it everyday. This was a great time for us to talk about how honey is made and why it's made. Also, remember those apples I said that we left out in all the centers? They have been a hit! We had several kids use them with blocks to build their own apple orchard. They would place the blocks upright and balance apples on them to create an apple tree. This also led to some other kids using the blocks to make a giant apple stand. They spent most of center time picking apples and selling them in the stand. What a great way for us to explore math and science during centers! Y'all have some very creative kids!<br />
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To finalize our exploration, we asked the kids to tell us some things that they've learned. This is the last part of our KWL chart. I'm blown away at the questions they've been asking and the facts they've been retaining. It's been a wonderful learning experience for all of us! Here are some things that we've learned the past couple of weeks...<br />
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- "Bees make honey and put it in the beehive."<br />
- "The worker bees clean the hive and take care of the queen bee and take care of the baby bees."<br />
- "The queen bee lays the eggs."<br />
- "The queen bee is bigger than the other bees."<br />
- "Drone bees are the boy bees."<br />
- "They turn nectar into honey in their honey stomach."<br />
- "The cells are hexagon shapes."<br />
- "An orchard is a place where you pick apples. They grow there."<br />
- "Apples are green, red, and yellow."<br />
- "Pollen is yellow and gold."<br />
- "Bees carry pollen to different flowers. This makes new flowers!"<br />
- "Apple trees grow from seeds and the flowers on the tree grow apples."<br />
- "The inside is called the core."<br />
- "The outside is the skin."<br />
- "Bees stay in their hive in the winter and eat honey they saved."<br />
- "Bees save honey for winter with wax."<br />
- "Bees have long mouths that they use to drink nectar."<br />
- "Bees all stay in the hive in the winter to keep warm."<br />
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Thanks for another great week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Show increasing ability to maintain interest in self-selected activities and play despite distractions and interruptions.</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an increasing ability to organize actions and materials in the learning environment. </li>
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<li>Stands up for rights much of the time.</li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time.</li>
<li>Demonstrate with adult guidance simple techniques to solve social problems.</li>
<li>Recognize own feelings and describe them some of the time.</li>
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<u>Language and Literacy</u></div>
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<li>Make relevant comments or appropriate responses to story events or characters.</li>
<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Respond to elements of colorful language in stores and poetry.</li>
<li>Retell one or tow events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Create a different form of a familiar word by adding "-ed" ending to show past action.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language. </li>
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<u>Mathematics</u></div>
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<li>Generate conjectures based on personal experiences and simple reasoning.</li>
<li>Classify objects in their environment by color, shape, size or function.</li>
<li>Integrate mathematical ideas into personal representations. </li>
<li>Identify two-dimensional shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.</li>
<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
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Mmm, we sure do love honey...</div>
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The building process of our giant beehive. It took many steps including: painting and building the hive, making honey and pollen, creating our adult and baby bees...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-77527088694461186662016-09-09T10:33:00.002-07:002016-09-09T10:33:41.204-07:00Apples, Apples, Everywhere!Hello family and friends!<br />
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We are off to a great start with our apple exploration! We've been able to answer several of our questions and have even found new questions to ask. We were able to find tons of books about orchards, apples, honey, and honeybees at the library. That has been a great way for us to start finding some answers to our questions. These books have been used during morning meeting, small groups, reading workshop, center time, and even quiet time. As we read, we talk about new words that we've found. We also explore real apples as we read. For example, we found a book that showed us the different parts of an apple so we got one of our real apples and cut it open. We found that it matched the pictures in our books perfectly. As we did this, we were learning different parts of the apple, how they are formed, and why each part is important to the life cycle of an apple tree. <br />
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We have also been incorporating apples into the different centers of our classroom. We put some real apples in home living for the kids to use during dramatic play. We've also added some to science for the kids to dissect and explore. We added apple seeds to our art center for the kids to add to their creations and we put several in our block center, along with the book, "Ten Apples Up on Top". The kids have been using them in blocks to build structures and buildings, as well as trying to stack them like in our story. <br />
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We've also been learning about the different varieties of apples. As we've been exploring them, we've noticed the difference in size and color. We've been doing a good amount of comparing and sorting. We even spent one morning trying different types of apples! We sampled Granny Smith, Gala, Fuji, and Envy apples. All of us, including me, had never even heard of or tasted an Envy apple so this was a new experience for all of us! After tasting each apple, we wrote our names on a piece of paper and glued it to chart paper under the name of the apple that we liked the most. After our chart was complete, we counted and totaled each column and then added the numbers together to learn how many of us participated in the survey. The majority of us favored the Envy apple. It was delicious! I found them at Trader Joe's if anyone is interested in trying them. We learned that they are a cross between a Gala and Baeburn apple and are from New Zealand. We also learned that this combination is what gives them their yellow and red colors. <br />
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We also became builders and engineers this week! We used toothpicks and chunks of apples to create whatever we wanted to make. As the kids made these structures, they were counting and problem solving. Many discovered that they could make shapes and letters with their pieces. As they made these shapes, they learned that a triangle can stand upright much better than a square, as the squares always seemed to collapse. This taught us one of the basic structural concepts of engineering. They were also working on their fine motor skills as they fit the small pieces together and worked the toothpicks to make their structures sturdy. As the kids worked, Michelle and I sat with them to see them work through the process. We took notes on our conversations with them as well as the process of completing their structures. This activity, along with a conversation with Ms. Kelly, has really got me interested in making a "tinkering" station for the kids. This would be an area full of loose parts and opportunities for imagination to run wild. Kids are natural inventors and scientists and explorers. This would be a great way to let them express these traits. I'm currently reading some books and doing research on the topic, so I'll keep you posted on this idea in a future blog post!<br />
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We also did a science experiment this week. During our taste testing we noticed that our apples were during brown quickly. Many of the kids were hesitant to eat these "brown" and "rotten" apples. We talked about the effect of oxygen meeting the apple skin and causing it to turn a brownish color. We asked the kids if they had any ideas on how we could slow down this process and make the apples last longer. They had some great suggestions for us to try! They suggested leaving the apple in the fridge, putting it in a bowl of water, covering it in plastic, wrapping it in a dry paper towel, and wrapping it in a wet paper towel. After we wrote down our suggestions, we made a hypothesis on what we thought would work best. We let the kids set up these different suggestions and we left the apple slices in our science area to be observed throughout the day. At the end of the day, we met together and discussed the results. We compared each apple slice and found that the one wrapped in a wet paper towel had the least amount of brown. This has really gotten the kids excited about science experiments so we can't wait to try some more in the weeks ahead.<br />
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As we've been researching orchards, we've learned about the importance of honeybees to apple trees. This has gotten us talking more about honey, so we will be incorporating those ideas into our exploration next week. We've been having a blast exploring and playing!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning</u><br />
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<li>Reason about events, relationships, or problems.</li>
<li>Demonstrate growing ability to predict possible outcomes based on prior experiences and knowledge.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to use prior knowledge to understand new experiences. </li>
<li>Represent prior events and personal experiences in one or more ways.</li>
</ul>
<u>Social & Emotional</u><br />
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<li>Interact easily with familiar adults by engaging in conversations, responding to questions and following directions.</li>
<li>Participate in group life of class.</li>
<li>Demonstrate strategies to join play group with adult support.</li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play.</li>
</ul>
<u>Language and Literacy</u><br />
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<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Begin to distinguish between real and make-believe in stories read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to ask questions about the causes of events they observe or hear about in books.</li>
<li>Contribute to small group or whole class dictation activities.</li>
<li>Makes some upper case letters without regard to proportion or placement. </li>
<li>Combine some letters with pretend writing.</li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics</u><br />
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<li>Organize and represent data with real objects.</li>
<li>Use nonstandard units of measure to compare everyday objects.</li>
<li>Sort and classify objects by one attribute (size, shape, or color)</li>
<li>Show awareness of growing patterns in their environment.</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4.</li>
</ul>
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We still look forward to our math buddies each week!...</div>
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Mmm, apple tasting (and charting our thoughts)...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-56475106994530153692016-09-02T13:43:00.001-07:002016-09-02T13:45:11.563-07:00Becoming ExpertsHello family and friends!<br />
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What a great week we've had in the Tzemach class! We've added a few new activities to our routine, as well as started our first exploration! We're only in the beginning stages of our exploration but you'll see it expand and develop throughout the next few weeks.<br />
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To start our week, we asked the kids to tell us some things that they find interesting. We wanted to know what they liked and what they were curious about. As I explained in my last post, this gives us an idea of what types of explorations the kids will enjoy this year. It also helps us have an idea of what types of books we should add to the reading center, what themed objects we should add to home living, what types of loose parts we could provide them to build with, etc. When we know the interests of each child, we can gauge our learning around it and make it more meaningful. We have our list hanging up in the classroom so we can refer to it throughout the year. As the year progresses, the kids may want to add ideas to their list. They may also change their interest and want to take an idea off of the list. We allow the list to change with the kids throughout the year. Here is a list of what everyone said...<br />
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Oscar - bucket trucks<br />
Sylvia - otters<br />
Yishai - horses<br />
Sophia - kitties<br />
Emma - frogs<br />
Ellie - birds<br />
Audrey - cheetahs, magnolias<br />
Callie - pigs<br />
Paxton - space ships<br />
Adam - bird nests<br />
Yael - big doll houses<br />
Harley - princesses<br />
Grady - dinosaurs<br />
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To pick our first exploration, we had the kids vote. We want them to learn about things that they are actually interested in. As we vote, we talk briefly about each topic. We discuss the concept of tally marks and numbers, as well as adding. We picked some options from our list of interests but also added the idea of orchards and honey. For those of you that don't know, we are about to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The kids have been learning a lot about this during Torah Time and have been asking questions in the classroom. Part of this holiday includes dipping apples in honey. Since several of them seemed interested, we decided to add these ideas to our list. I honestly thought they would vote on something else, but the overwhelming majority said they wanted to learn about apple orchards and honey. I'm thrilled that they picked this exploration because it will go hand in hand with the holiday coming up. We are also getting a bee hive in our school so we'll be able to have some serious hands on exploration! After we voted, we noticed that some of the kids were going around with their own list of topics and asking their peers what they wanted to learn about. We were so happy to see them expanding some of our morning meeting time during play. We'll definitely find a way to let the kids take control of the voting for our next exploration! <br />
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After the kids voted, we made a KWL chart. This is something that I do with the kids at the beginning of every exploration. To start our chart, we make a list of everything that we already know about the topic (K for know). Next, we make a list of all the questions we have about that topic (W for want to know). After the exploration is over, we will conclude by making a list of everything that we've learned (L for learn). This chart gives us a great idea of where to start with the kids. It gives us an idea of what they already know and what they are curious about. We base our exploration off of these curiosity questions and make sure we answer each one. It's always fun to pull the chart back out at the end of the exploration and see how much we've learned! Next week, we will be doing some research and experiments to start answering some of our questions. Here is a list of our K and W. As you can see, we have a lot of questions!<br />
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<u><strong>K</strong>now:</u><br />
- There are lots of apples.<br />
- You can dip apples in honey.<br />
- Bees make honey.<br />
- You pick apples at an orchard.<br />
- Some apples grow high in the trees.<br />
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<u><strong>W</strong>ant to know:</u><br />
- Why do bees make honey?<br />
- What different kids of apples are in the world?<br />
- Can you make your own honey?<br />
- What is a beehive?<br />
- How do bees make honey?<br />
- What is an orchard?<br />
- How is an orchard made?<br />
- What is the red stuff on an apple?<br />
- How do apples get their color?<br />
- How do apples grow?<br />
- How do bees get honey?<br />
- How do bees make honey?<br />
- How do bees make hives?<br />
- How does honey get in the hive?<br />
- Why do apples change colors?<br />
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We also started both reading and math buddies this week! Every Monday we will meet with Ms. Kim's 4th graders. They come into our classroom and read books to us. This week our kids picked out their favorite book and got to have their new buddy read to them. It was a great experience for both sets of classes and we love the idea of joining our elementary kids with our preschoolers! We also started math buddies this week, which will happen every Wednesday. For this time, we get to meet with Rabbi Meir's college students. Each of our kids gets to partner with one of his students and work on math concepts. This week they began with playing games with the kids. Some chose to work in the classroom, some in the Kline, and others even went outside to explore math. Our kids loved it! They've been asking about math and reading buddies every day. We're so thankful that we get the opportunity to expose the kids to both of these partner times. <br />
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We also spent some time this week making gifts for our parents for Open House. We hope you enjoyed them! We had a great time speaking with everyone that night and I hope all of your questions were answers. Of course, I'm always here if you have more questions!<br />
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I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!<br />
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Love,<br />
Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning:</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate delight or satisfaction when completing a task, solving a problem, or making a discovery.</li>
<li>Show ability to focus attention for increasing variety of chosen tasks and activities for short periods of time (10-20 minutes).</li>
<li>Understand a task can be accomplished through several steps.</li>
<li>Reason about events, relationships, or problems. </li>
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<u>Social & Emotional:</u></div>
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<li>Demonstrate confidence by participating in most classroom activities.</li>
<li>Manage transitions positively when told what to expect.</li>
<li>Display emerging social skills of trying to take turns and talk with others during play.</li>
<li>Recognize effect on others of own behavior most of the time. </li>
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<u>Language and Literacy:</u></div>
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<li>Recall some details in stories read aloud.</li>
<li>Explore books independently.</li>
<li>Show interest in informational texts about familiar objects.</li>
<li>Relate information from texts to personal experience.</li>
<li>Begin to recognize similarities in sounds at the begging and ending of words. </li>
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<u>Mathematics:</u></div>
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<li>Generate conjectures based on personal experiences and simple reasoning.</li>
<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Count orally forward to twenty and backward from three.</li>
<li>Use appropriate vocabulary to communicate mathematical ideas.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350626667378413083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225710563161816069.post-60485308895553727182016-08-26T10:59:00.004-07:002016-08-26T11:00:20.109-07:00Workshops and Woods PlayHello family and friends!<br />
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We have had a great second week of school! The kids are learning our routine and schedule quickly. We also added music to our schedule this week. Ms. Natalie will come to our classroom every other Friday and work on new music skills. It's a fun part of our week!<br />
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One of the main things I want to tell you about this week is our workshops. We have three main workshops that we rotate throughout the week: math, reading, and writing. The beauty of workshops is that its a time for Michelle and I to walk around the room and meet with each child individually. As we do this, we are assessing their skills in each of these areas. We take notes, talk with the children, and help them work through anything they may need help with. This time gives us a clear picture of what we need to provide for each child and the best way to challenge them to help them improve in these skill sets. <br />
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Math workshop consists mainly of math games that cover a range of different skills. As we begin to learn the skills each child already knows, we are very strategic about which games they choose. Each child starts at a station and moves their way around the room, either when they've completed their game or when they feel that they are ready to move on to something new. Writing workshop works on our writing and fine motor skills. We talk about our word wall, letters, words, and encourage inventive spelling (the child spelling words in their own way). Many children do not want to start writing workshop with letters and words. That is perfectly fine. They may choose to draw or color during this time instead. After they are done with their work, Michelle and I meet with each one and talk about their work. We write on a post-it what they have created. We feel that the post-it does not take away from their work by us marking on their papers. During reading workshop, we spend time exploring books. At the beginning of the year, we talk about the proper care of our books and how to handle them. We explore the different parts of a books and their importance. We also get to know each child's favorite books and their reading interests. As with all the workshops, this is also a time for us to assess each child and we take the time to meet their needs in an individualized way while challenging them as the year progresses. <br />
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Another thing we did this week was visit the woods for the first time...it was awesome! The kids seemed to really love it. We walked across bridges, swung from vines, stomped through the mud, climbed trees, and played in the woods fort. We were all sweaty and dirty, but we were loving it! As we walked through the woods, we talked about nature. We discovered different types of plants and talked about the water. We thought about what we could see, hear, and smell. While this is a great alternative to our playground time, it is so much more. The kids are exploring while they play. They are asking questions and learning to work together. They're learning to help one another and develop social skills. We also learning to take risks and learning our personal limits. As we played, we gathered nature to bring into our classroom. Once we got back to the room, many of the kids chose to paint their nature. We painted with different pieces of nature, such as sticks and leaves. As we painted, we talked about our experience. We asked questions about our pieces of nature and did some research. We also talked about what we liked and didn't like about the woods. All of these conversations and artwork are hanging up in the hallway. Make sure you check it out!<br />
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Many of you may have noticed our new chandelier hanging above our art table. This is our birthday wreath that will be a part of our birthday celebrations each month. Each child chose a piece of ribbon and we glued a picture of them with their birthday date on the bottom of the ribbon. When we celebrate birthdays each month, the children with a birthday that month will take their ribbon off the wreath and decorate it then add it back. This birthday ritual will be a time for us to celebrate each child individually while demonstrating that together we all make up our classroom family. <br />
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Throughout the rest of the school year, we will be doing what I like to call "explorations". I like to avoid the word "theme" because, in my mind, I view a theme as something you do for a week and never touch it again. The beauty of an exploration is that it has no time frame. Some explorations may last 3 days, some may last a month or longer. The time we spend on each exploration will depend on the kids and how interested they are in what we are learning about. Another fun thing about explorations is that several ideas may overlap and we sometimes go back and make references to previous explorations. These explorations are chosen by the kids. Next week we will ask each child something they would like to learn about, something they were interested in. Throughout the year we will make sure we cover every idea or question that they have. As we're doing these explorations, we are including subject matters such as math, science, social studies, reading, writing, and geography. It's amazing to watch how many standards we cover while having fun and learning something interesting all at the same time! I'll go more in depth in later posts, but wanted to let you know how the rest of our days will play out. <br />
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Thanks for helping us make it a great week! I'm already looking forward to week 3!<br />
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Love,<br />
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Ms. Rachael<br />
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<u>Approaches to Learning</u><br />
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<li>Show creativity and imagination using materials in representational play.</li>
<li>Demonstrate increasing ability to identify and take appropriate risks in order to learn and demonstrate new skills. </li>
<li>Show curiosity in an increasing variety of activities.</li>
<li>Demonstrate eagerness and interest as a learners by questions and adding ideas. </li>
<li>Try to solve problems encountered in play.</li>
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<u>Social and Emotional</u><br />
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<li>Demonstrate self direction by making choices among peers, activities and materials.</li>
<li>Stand up for rights much of the time.</li>
<li>Respond respectfully to positive and negative feedback from adults most of the time. </li>
<li>Follow classroom rules and procedures with reminders.</li>
</ul>
<u>Language and Literacy</u><br />
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<li>Make relevant comments or appropriate responses to story events or characters.</li>
<li>Respond to elements of colorful language in stories and poetry. </li>
<li>Retell one or two events from a story read aloud.</li>
<li>Begin to understand the relationship between oral language and written language.</li>
<li>Represent familiar people and experiences through art and language.</li>
</ul>
<u>Mathematics</u><br />
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<li>Investigate solutions to simple problems.</li>
<li>Locate patterns in the environment.</li>
<li>Begin to show awareness of numbers in the environment.</li>
<li>Compare sets of no more than then objects using the terms "more than" or "same as"</li>
<li>Represent simple joining and separating situations through 4</li>
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