Kindergarten:
Too much activity for me to video or take pictures this week as we rotated through 4 different centers working with colores. We read Oso Pardo(Brown Bear) by Eric Carle and then did some gummy bear math, sorting and graphing our yummy gummy colors. Other centers included color lacing cards, playdoh, and color blocks. The students did a great job cooperating and working out their own problems while I concentrated on the graphing group.
B1-2 Technology:
This week we started a great project ,which we will re-visit periodically throughout the year, called the Symbolic Monarch Migration from the site
journeynorth.org. I urge you to visit this site, which has a wealth of information. You can help track the monarchs on their Fall trip to Mexico and then back again in the Spring. We learned about the lifecycle of the monarch and watched some amazing video of the monarch
caterpillar munching milkweed and the butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.
As the students played various butterfly and insect games on ikeepbookmarks, we took pictures of them with their "antennas up" to be used next week as we create paper monarchs that will be mailed to Mexico to spend the winter at the Monarch sanctuaries along with the real monarchs.
3-4 Technology:
This week we put all those formatting skills together with the information we discovered about ourselves to make "Who Am I?" powerpoint presentations. Students learned how to do motion clips, slide transitions, and insert a digital picture from a file (remember those pictures we took last week?) I'm hoping to combine their powerpoints into a class Who Am I to share here after everyone finishes next week. Students who finished early made a digital jigsaw puzzle of themselves at this cool site.
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