This was a quick, yet busy week in kindergarten!  On Wednesday we had a great opportunity to listen to presentation about raptors.  We even got to see a screech owl, a falcon, a red tailed hawk, and a barred owl!  It was very exciting!  We learned a lot about these birds of prey and had a chance to touch a snowy owl foot and a barred owl wing.  Here are some of the facts that the children dictated after we got back to our room.

In writing we continued to work on persuasive pieces, focusing on letter writing.  We read books about characters that wrote letters to their owners requesting things.  We noted that they stated their request in a positive way, then backed it up with reasons.  We discussed how the reasons should appeal to the person that they are writing the letter to and that the more reasons they can come up with, the more convincing they will be.  I was the scribe as the children dictated a letter to me stating that it would be better if we had a class pet and the reasons why.

In math we have been reviewing decomposing numbers, problem solving, and working on our fluency of addition and subtraction facts through 5.  These facts should be automatic.

We learned about the parts of a seed, read about a pumpkin seed growing, and had a chance to plant our own seeds.  We planted red kidney bean seeds and watched a video of bean seeds growning.  This was fascinating to the children so I have attached a link to the video.

Time lapse video of beans growing

Our resident spider catchers