100th Day of School!

Greetings to all of you blog readers!  Another week has sure flown by in Kinder #9.  The students have been waiting and counting down the days for this past week because we had our 100th day of school!  There was a lot of work we did to prepare for this day including our counting to 100 which we do everyday! 

Here are some photos of the students working on their hats.  For their hats, I had them cut out the number 100 which they could color any way they wanted to.  The hardest part was they had to write as many numbers as they could with the given time.  I had quite a few who wrote to 100 and wore it proudly on their hats!!



Back:  Alexis, Pablo, Skyler, Allen, Patrick, Cindy, Ojem

Middle:  Daniel, Faith, Tatiana, Joseph, AJ, Angel

Front:  Justin, Hailey, Tiffany, Anahi, Kyli

Luckily most of the students had come back on this day for our "party" which consisted of the kindergarten classes rotating to four different centers which included things with 100.  We had  Snack, Exercise, Block, and Puzzle Centers set up and the students really enjoyed them! 

Here is a picture of all the kindergarten classes at the end of the day waiting to see who has been at school all 100 days.  Sadly no one from my class has been there the whole time, but it was neat to see how many had been there. 

And to leave you...a video!!  We can count to 100!!!

Building a Snowman!

Here is a picture of our current PWIM poster.  We have been working really hard on using our poster throughout the day while we are talking and writing.  The words around the poster are the words that the students came up with and we use daily.  One of the ways we use the words is by sorting them into categories that show similarities.  They like to call it..."See if we can trick Miss Mills."  When I model this for the students I try to use categories such as:  rhyming, same word or letters within the word, or all are visible on the picture to be in the same category.  We are getting better at this and the students seem to really enjoy this activity.

Skyler and Joseph are sorting!

Another thing that we do is use our words that are on the poster and in our envelope to create sentences that can be directly related to the poster, or related through the student by means of experience when dealing with whatever the poster is showing us.  We are really good at creating sentences about the poster and we are trying to work on relating those words to life outside of school. 

Cindy and Evelyn are going through the sentences that we created during group and testing each other to see if they can read the sentence while Pablo is reading his sentences from his PWIM binder that has all of the posters we have done this far in the year.  The students really seem to enjoy going back to see if they can read what they had written in the past! 

This short 19 second video of Faith and Anahi is an example of the students choral reading from their binder.  It is kind of hard to hear at the beginning but they are reading!!!

It is really exciting for me to watch them get so excited about gaining skills through our "work" with the PWIM poster.  I can't wait to see what they will do at the end of the week when we take a few of our sentences and turn it into a story on our smart board!  This will help all of us in writing so we can talk about sentence structure, spelling, capital letters, and punctuation which we have been talking about with our sight words!!

Until next time....