Near the end of our first unit of inquiry 'Who We Are', we had a chance to "show what we know". We used the 'Draw & Tell app' on our iPads to show the important people in our lives and explain how they have influenced us.
In a celebration of the International Day of Peace on September 21, Kindergarten 1 shared their ideas of what peace is with the whole school through a song and a video in the assemblies. Lea thinks peace is . . .
if you hurt someone's feelings you have to say "sorry"
In K1AC, we love the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Students often ask for the story to be re-read and it is always a popular choice for independent reading.
Last week Lea selected this book to read to her Grade 2 buddies after they shared some of their writing with her. The video below demonstrates Lea's development as an emergent reader as she practices "memorized reading" using her memory of the story, beginning concept of word and print, and the illustrations as prompts.
Lea rolled a dot cube to find the number that she would be working with. She counted the dots and then built a tower with the same number of cubes. Here is her work:
We read a book called "And Here's To You" by David Elliott, which talked about all of the things the author loves. We had a discussion about the things we love and recorded our ideas with words, drawings, and voices.
Lea chose this piece for her portfolio because: "I gave it to my Auntie and she liked it and she put it in her room and she saved it for the whole family."
Yesterday morning Lea started sorting out all the fruit from the plastic toys. She looked like she had a big idea on her mind and we were all wondering what she was up to. The next thing we knew she had fruit smoothies! They were so delicious!
Yesterday they cost $1 each and today they cost $2.