High School Visitors!

One of the Town of Burlington’s goals is collaboration. This year the students in Room 101 will collaborate with Ms. Hoerle’s Italian IV Burlington High School class. Today Ms. Hoerle’s class came to our classroom. We had a quick morning meeting and introduced ourselves in Italian. Ciao! Mi chiamo _________. E tu?. Next we all worked together to put together a world map. We found the United States and Italy and we learned that we needed to take a plane or a boat to get from Massachusetts to Italy. The students found out that the country of Italy is shaped like a high heel boot. We saw what the Italian flag looked like and we learned the names for the colors of the flag in Italian- green- verdi, white- bianchi and red- rossi,  Next we had a movement break and we moved to Dr. Jean's Tooty Ta. 

After the break the kindergartners and their high school partner(s) read the What Will We Eat book that the kindergartners completed a few days ago. The kindergartners read the English and the high school partner read the Italian. These books went home today! Next we went through a slide show of the numbers and colors that were in the book and again the kindergartners read the English and the HS students read the Italian then the kindergartners attempted to echo the Italian words. We had a quick turn and talk with our HS partner and we shared our favorite part of the visit. 

We had time for one more quick movement break and the HS students did GoNoodle's Kids Bop, Fight Song with us! We ended by giving a quick high five to our partners! The kindergartners enjoyed having their high school partners read and talk with them! All students BIG and SMALL had a great time today and we are all looking forward to seeing each other again in the spring.

Christopher & Daniella

Sharon & Lillian

Ally & Max

Angela & CJ

Bryson & Jenn

Stephanie &  Max

Alexis & Sara

Drew & Sarah

Julia & Chase

Ryan & Thanya

Hayden & Emily

Ava & Sean

Caroline & Gracyn

Rose, Sydney & Emma

 

Kindergarten Friendsgiving

Friendsgiving Singing

Happy Friendsgiving

We had a tremendous morning singing with our grade k friends!  

Then we feasted together in the cafeteria.  Each kindergartner sat with 

their buddy and presented them with a Friendsgiving treat.

Highlights from this week November 18-22nd

We practiced a lot of fine motor skills this week with painting the giant tree, adding painted snowflakes, painting sticks and clothes pins that we will be turning into winter crafts. We learned a new app on the iPads called Dexteria that helps with other fine motor tasks, tapping on cue, pinching the crabs and letter writing. 

We also continue our work with learning about lowercase letters, how to make them, what sounds they make and then using these skills to practice our Letterboards and journal writing. We worked on our Friendsgiving crafts for our K buddy, we practiced reading our new vegetable book so we are prepared to read with the Italian IV students from the high school. 

We also completed our Thanks A Lot books and we read a fun turkey book all about positional words. Turkey cut outs will be sent home with these books so your child can practice moving the turkey around. These items will be sent home in the big Thanksgiving bags that will go home on Monday.  

We worked on practicing our second set of sight words. Our quiz is tomorrow! We worked on comparing numbers from 5-10. We put numerals in order with there values, then we ordered numbers that were out of sequence. We will be having our Topic 3 quiz on Tuesday. 

Friday was very busy. We started our day with our Parent Readers. Thank you to Mr. Finkel, Mrs. Wilcox, Ms. Barrows and substitute teacher Ms. Cook. Thank you for reading with us. After the parents left our 4th grade partners came down. We played our new board games, colored and labeled turkeys, made our Party in the Bag bags and we read Thanksgiving books. 

We then went on to Workboards- making snowflakes for the bulletin board, calendar markers and the flames to our giant candles. Mr. Donoff came in and did a lesson with the OSMO iPad app using Tangrams. The students found the shape puzzles challenging and Mr. Donoff will be in again to use these again with us. After lunch and recess Mrs. Woodbury taught us the sign language for the Thanks A Lot song, then the kindergartners had an extra recess today from earning enough Hoot cards. At the end of the day Ms. Kendall came in and did a lesson with us on being Thankful and showing gratitude.

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