Addition Superstars!!!

Whoops I have been away for far too long! Every time I would remember to post I would also remember that my memory card was at school, teacher blog FAIL!

We have been learning to add in kindergarten for the last couple of weeks, in fact tomorrow is our "chapter check-up" and I have to be honest I really thought this was going to be tough for my kinders. Alas, they have proven me wrong and have done MARVELOUSLY!!!

We have gotten to do some fun full body movement activities like this:

Acting out the problem.

Emily had the difficult job of solving the equation.

And she did a great job!! 

Number line hopping: we started at one number and counted on by hopping.

Then we put two friends on the number line and they had to figure out how many hops from point A to point B!

This week we also added a writing center to our room just under the word wall. 

The students can write letters, trace the alphabet, and use whiteboards and (the big favorite) chalkboards!

In other "my students are super spectacular news" Miss Jasa read us a story this week.

She did a great job reading the WHOLE book by herself!! 

I also really enjoyed getting to sit with the kids and have someone read to me for a change!!

In reading group:

We played a super fun silent "e" game!

Don't be alarmed that they are reading different pages, this was staged because I forgot to get it when they were actually reading. 

Here are some of the morning messages from this week:

I try to have a message for them each day, their job is to write the message and "butter" the popcorn words. This speeds things up when we go over the message during phonics because they have already found some of the words. They can also "butter" any other words they know how to read. It never ceases to shock me how quickly they notice the words other places, for instance Qwerty had a popcorn word on veggie tales last week and they went nuts when they saw it.

I am so lucky to have these boys and girls in my life they are going to do AMAZING things in the future!

Coming soon: Easter story review week. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I am going to do my best to update each night this week. It should be a very thought provoking week. (I hope)

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11