Moving Along in Room 3....

It's been a wonderful week in room 3!  We have continued to practice classroom routines and expectations.   Our new phonics program has us studying names to learn letters and their sounds.  Math finds us busy exploring shapes and playing a new game, "Beat You To Five."  

This week, we spent a fair amount of time reviewing playground expectations.  There has been a bit of "rough play" lately and we want to emphasize the importance of being safe and gentle with our friends.  This would be a great topic of conversation at home too!  

I am really enjoying working on the blog WITH the children.  They are learning how to share ideas and information in a way that makes sense to the reader.   Writing our blog together also helps us to generalize what we've been working on during our literacy time.  Feel free to leave us some comments!  Enjoy!

And now a word from the kids...

This is Nelson.  He is our bear.  He lives at Chamberlin School.  We bring him home at night because he gets lonely and scared.  He has a journal and a bedtime story.  Ryan the birthday boy brought Nelson home on his birthday!

We made these pigs. They are Pinkerton pigs.  Pinkerton is a pig from a story called Me First.  We used our scissors and glue to make our Pinkertons.  

We know how to read! We read familiar books.  They are familiar because we have heard them so many times!  Now we can read them on our own!

This is our farm that Mrs. Brown bought for us. We like it! It has a tractor, animals, and farmers.  Farmers are real people but we have some fake ones.  We play with them.  

We have two babies in room 3.  Their names are Nancy and Nancy.  We like to rock them, feed them, change their clothes and read to them.  

WE LOVE THOSE BABIES!

Look what we've been up to...

Oh what fun we've been having in room 3!  This week, we started our brand new phonics program.  We've been singing, sorting letter sounds, and studying our names.  We've also had a lot of fun reading "familiar books."  These are books that we've read together several times (I bet you have some at home...) The children are so familiar with them that they can "read" them all by themselves.  This is a very important early reading skill.  

For the first time this week, we did some shared writing and worked on our blog TOGETHER! My goal is for this to be a regular part of our week, with kids explaining, in their own words, what we did in kindergarten.  Enjoy!  

And now a word from the kids...

We made these bumblebees. They are hanging on the wall. It was fun to make them.  They make the classroom beautiful. They help us to remember to be safe, be respectful and be responsible.  

We filled the hive!  Everybody at Chamberlin School traded Bee Bucks for honey cells to fill our hive.  It takes TEN Bee Bucks to earn ONE honey cell!  We will celebrate with Rainbow Day on Tuesday, September 25.  Everyone should wear their rainbow colors.  

We like to play with blocks.  Our 5th grade buddies helped us to make this castle.  

We use the geo-boards to make cool shapes.  You can make a lot of different shapes with rubber bands that are all different colors. 

We have a lot of Legos.  We LOVE to build with them.  

We LOVE play dough.  This week we used it at choice time.  We used letter cookie cutters with the play dough.  We work together to clean up when we are done.  

We love to do art.  We love to paint.  We painted these Rainbow Fish after we read the story.  The Rainbow Fish taught us about sharing.