The K-kids had a blast learning about transportation! They have been hard at work creating, designing, and constructing their own box cars.  I have enjoyed seeing their creative minds dive into a project and design from start to finish.

Here are some highlights from the week:

We read the story, If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen to kick off our Transportation Unit.  In the story, the young boy creates a magical car with jet engines, a Plexiglas dome, polymer gel siding  and even a swimming pool! The kiddos loved brainstorming unique gadgets and put their plans into action by sketching a design of their car.  Finally, using recyclable materials, they constructed their box cars! To top it all off, they presented their creations at an Auto Show for their classmates and parents. 

Designing-

Mechanics hard at work-

Auto Show

The K-kids listened to the stories, Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread Friends, and Gingerbread Girl by Jan Bret.  They enjoyed coming up with creative predictions about what would happen to the Gingerbread character at the end of the story.  Each story had a different ending  and together we compared and contrast the similarities and differences from the stories. 

Making gingerbread houses!

                     

Wassail Celebration

Language Arts

Stations- Games that focused on identify syllables in a word, transportation sentences, and a sight word roll game.

We continued reading groups and practiced the reading strategy, Chunky Monkey.  When coming to an unkown word, you find chunks or parts of the word that you know to help you identify the whole word.

Math

The kiddos created different modes of transportation using tangrams.  They could follow patterns or create their own.  In stations, many of the games focused on number sense and identifying 2 digit numbers and counting on  by 5’s and 10’s.  We also continued in our math journals by identifying math vocabulary such as- greater than, fewer, more than and listening for those key words in the story problems. 

Writer’s Workshop

As we wrapped up our stories last week, the kiddos were excited to share!  We continue sounding out words and writing mechanics with finger spaces and punctuation.

Share chair-

Have a relaxing and wonderful Winter Break!  I will see you all back to school on Monday, January 9^th.