Kindergarten

Today was all about making up for lost time.  We covered a lot of material in a short time and the children were wonderful.  They used deductive (detective) thinking in every activity we completed.  We started with a reading of the book Corduroy.  I then put them to figuring out words when given a clue and a set of letters. The words they made are on a paper they brought home that was printed after they completed the activity.

Next, we went back to visit Dudley in Crystal Pond Woods. We reviewed his rules of detective thinking.  The rules are:
         There is only one right answer.
         Delay judgement of certain information if necessary.
         Put more than one clue together to find all needed information.
         And last, patience is important. 

We used these skills to complete three Dudley activities. First, I read clues that lead to the children guessing the animal that was being described.  Then, we used clues to rule out which picture - out of five- matched our clues.  (I am keeping the Dudley activities until we are done with the unit so that we can reference them as we move along.)

Last, I introduced the children to Roman Numerals. The children are bringing home an activity page we did together and a bookmark with the Roman Numbers for 1 - 10.  We'll be revisiting these each week for a while.  They will be able to recognize 1 to 20 in Roman Numerals in a just a few short weeks. 

Last, I gave your child the GATE book club orders. I realize this is late in coming to you, but if you'd like to order I will need paper orders back here by Thursday or you can order on line through Friday.

Due to the President's Day Holiday we won't have class next week.  Again, we'll just have a busy day on February 28.