We had a fine Friday of learning and fun. After a devotion and prayer our class got to meet and spend some time getting to know their new 8th grade friends. The Kindergarten class pairs with the 8th grade class this year. Our 8th graders come down and read with us or help us with a project once a week throughout the school year. Today they interviewed their Kindergarten friend and shared about themselves as they made clouds and rainbows to decorate our room.
The class took a practice phonics and writing quiz in reading after a quick review. Soon we will be taking these quizzes after we study and write several letters.
We began a new math chapter about using numbers 0-5. In it we will concentrate on writing numbers correctly and careful counting.
After lunch we interviewed some of the staff in the church office and learned about the jobs of church secretary and ministry coordinator. We are adding information to our map of the building as we learn more each week. It's good for our class to understand there is a church body that supports them in multiple ways.
Our art lesson was about a dot. It is international 'Dot Day' today! Mrs. DeGraaf read the award winning book, 'The Dot' which teaches children to take risks in art and find pride in their work. The class painted beautiful dots and 'not-a-dots', it was fun to see all the smiles as they created their own masterpieces.
It was great to have our first trip to the computer lab. We talked about the parts of the computer and played a cupcake game to practice mouse skills. Everyone did quite well! Then we worked on writing skills on our classroom iPads.
Wishing you a good weekend,
Mrs. Luoma
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