We've been doing lots of things with our names lately. This is helping us learn about the letters of the alphabet that are in our name. The focus has also been on uppercase compared to lowercase letters. We cut our names apart and counted the number of letters that are in our names. Then we created a floor graph to compare them to our friends' names. Because we see the names of the children in our class every day that we are at school, they become some of the first words that we learn to read. We've been practicing reading each other's names in class big books, pocket chart songs, from the Special Friend list, and from many other places in our classroom. We created 'name puzzles' by cutting each letter of our names in different shapes (practicing our cutting skills!) and then we had to put our puzzle back together. It became a bit trickier when we had to complete the puzzles of our classmates' names. Everyone made Name Caterpillars. Each letter of their name had to go on one circle for the body of the caterpillar. They had to think about how many circles they would need to make their caterpillar and they also had to make sure that they made it go the right direction for reading purposes. It's harder than it sounds! We compared their lengths. Some of the caterpillars are very long and others are very short! We decided to have them crawl in and around our classroom tree. Using a variety of materials at our Discovery Centre, we had fun making our names!
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AuthorI'm Mrs. MacDonald. Welcome to a window into our kindergarten classroom. My goal of this blog is to give you an opportunity to see some of the things that we are doing at school. Enjoy! Archives
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