This blog will cover that past few weeks of learning. We finished learning about our 5 senses, Day and Night and shadows science lessons. I also added pics of some of the wonderful programs that come to our school. Highlighted in this blog are the Toledo Opera and Imagination Station.
Students have Science Vocabulary Journals. We add drawings, pictures, and tape or glue in artifacts to help students better understand science. I added notes to help children select artifacts if needed. They did a great job picking objects and explaining their thinking.
Dylan described his feather using the sense of sight and touch. He decided to add the feather in his Science Vocabulary Journal on the hand for the sense of touch. He described it as being soft.
Students get creative during free time. Rodney offered bus service to his friends, Skyler and Journey. Notice the creative use of pencil boxes for the gas pedal and a paper circle for the steering wheel. Next stop...Disney!
Mrs. Madanski engages the students in a cool demonstration for her lesson on Day and Night. She used a lamp as a model of the sun to illustrate how it can be morning in Toledo but night time in another part of the world.
Small group math intervention. This group was working on ordering numbers and showing sets.
Imagination Station comes to our school every Wednesday for 30-45 minutes to do literature and hands on science based activities with our Kindergarteners.
Skyler listened to a funny story about spiders and then made her own spider using her thumbprint.
Lots of spiders! Each student had to make sure their spider had 8 legs.
The Toledo Opera performed the Barber of Seville for the entire school. This was such a great experience for our students!
It was funny and easy for the kids to follow! After the performance, the director and actors took time to answer the many questions of our students about the performance.
Later in the week, the students made their own observations and predictions of the movement of the sun. Here they observed where the morning sun was located in the sky using a tree as an anchor.
We went outside at 10, 12:10, and 2:30 for 2 days and recorded the sun's position. Mrs. Madanski then recorded the class results on a class recording sheet and we discussed our findings.
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Rodney works on his Science Vocabulary journal. He was cutting and pasting items from the newspaper that he could "see." Rodney was showing another student that he had 2 glue sticks with no caps-not about to throw them:)
Hard at work!