Happy Presidents’ Day! This week the Kindergarteners celebrated Presidents’ day. We read the story Presidents’ Day by Anne Rockwell. It explains that we celebrate Presidents’ day to honor those that have “lead” the country, especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We also talked about the President’s job and how they help our country. The president helps make laws to keep us safe. We brainstormed ideas of things we would do if we were President. Some of our ideas were realistic and some were just fantasy. We each wrote down one of our ideas and then illustrated our idea. Then we put them together into a class book titled “If I were President….” We also completed a science experiment. We tried to clean pennies. We found out that pennies look dirty and dull because the copper reacts to the air. We tried cleaning pennies with soap+water, vinegar, orange juice, ketchup, and vinegar+salt. After we let them soak for 10 minutes, we washed them off with water. We found out that vinegar+salt cleaned them the best. We ended the week with a Lenten Retreat at church.
Monday:
No School - President Day
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Introduced to our new word be
Reviewed our sight words
Read through our emergent reader, The President
Listened to the story, Presidents’ Day
Read through the story, Happy Presidents Day!
Completed an an/ag word matching worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to solid shapes: cone, cube, cylinder, sphere
Religion:
Colored the 2nd Station of the Cross: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story, If I Were President
Completed a writing project, If I were president…. by writing the words and illustrating it
Completed an et Secret Word worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
“What’s My Rule?” Fishing - identifying why a group of things are the same
Religion:
Colored the 3rd Station of the Cross: Jesus Falls for the First Time
Thursday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story, I Can Be President
Reviewed American Symbols
Added a detail sentence to each page in an American Symbols book
Completed a Graph It worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Clean pennies
Religion:
Colored the 4th Station of the Cross: Jesus Meets Mary, His Mother
Friday:
Lenten Retreat
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