Today was our very first MONDAY of Kindergarten!
It was also our very first rainy day of Kindergarten! She loves to change our little weather dial. This was another find in the dollar bin at Target! Another unexpected place to find cheap teaching materials is the Dollar Tree! They have all sorts of charts, bulletin board items, learning tools, crafts and workbooks.
Luckily it rained, because the kids' desk set and organization shelves arrived and I didn't feel like I was missing something by being stuck inside the furniture assembly sweatshop. After the rain subsided, the kids were so absorbed in the excitement of it all, they didn't ask to go outside so I actually had time to focus on the project at hand! After a long, long while (an eternity, maybe), the true rainy day feeling sunk in when I realized I had just spent the day putting the components together, but turned around to see about the same amount of unopened boxes as opened ones. SO, my hopes of having my dining room back by tomorrow were crushed. At least the kids are having fun with the boxes! Below is Princess Rapunzel in her tower...
Art Lesson: Rubbings! Awwwwe, I remember doing these as a kid! She went around the house (and a little outside) to find objects that would create a successful rub-through. Not everything she tried worked, but that's part of learning how to make observations and make predictions about which objects WILL work.
Language Arts: We Diligently Drew Dd's, Delightfully Developing Didget Dexterity.
Then, we read Henny Penny, laughed about all the fun rhyming animal names in the story, and then made up some rhyming animal names of our own. In our story, there would be: Underwear Bear, Funny Bunny, Bity Kitty, Soggy Doggy, Fatty Batty, Girdle Turtle and Horsie Worsie.
Math Lesson: We modified today's assigned lesson to be more challenging (the original lesson in the curriculum was to identify which animals are inside the barn, outside the pen, etc. but that was too easy). We did do the required lesson, but then we made up our own math lessons incorporating the "inside/outside" theme. I used math cubes to make word problems, like, "If I have 6 cubes inside the tin, but then move 2 cubes outside the tin, how many cubes would I have left in the tin?" and had her practice writing down the equation formats: 6 - 2 = 4
Movement: Balancing II - (Balancing I was on Friday). We practiced making more objects balance, and we discovered that if we wanted to achieve balance, we had to make it equal on both sides. SO, we practiced making people cutouts that are the same on both sides so that they can walk the tightrope with the greatest of ease... I drew the man shape on the fold, and she drew the girl shape on the fold all by herself - she wanted her "little girl" to "hold her dress out like a princess", and it turned out so cute! I think hers turned out better than mine!
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