Kindergarten blog 4/23/21

Dear Families,

In Social Studies we are continuing to make maps.  Ater making maps of their bedrooms at home, children made maps of imaginary towns that included streets that they named as well as places they wanted to have in their towns.  This led to a trip out to the front of the building to make a map of Smith Street.  We first looked at the buildings, noting their size and purpose (grocery store, pizza place, apartment building, coffee shop, offices, school).  We then looked at the many structures on the sidewalk and talked about their functions (bike racks, parking signs, gardens, street signs, parking payment machines).  The next step in the project will be creating a large map that shows all the information they gathered in their trip out front!

This week in Math, Kindergarteners are practicing addition. We are emphasizing that in Kindergarten, we do not need to have addition facts memorized. Instead, we need to know how to use strategies (counting on, using fingers, counting a picture, counting manipulatives). If we know our strategies, we can finish any number sentence! We are also practicing checking our work, and reminding each other that good mathematicians always count again!