Migration Station!

Through our animal unit, we have talked about how winter affects animals. We read a book called 'Animals in Winter' that describes the 4 ways animals survive in this cold season: migrate, hibernate, store food, or hunt. As a follow up on the concept of migration your students watched a BrainPopJr movie on migration, then cut out one animal who migrates to use as a puppet in our display of migration. We then took a floor map (we had to add the compass rose as one student notedly pointed out) and acted out how various animals migrate south for the winter.

With the winter we have been having I don't blame some of these animals for going south.... Maybe we can tag along? :)

May we present to you our .... Readers Theater!!

Your students have been hard at work practicing reading and presenting their nonfiction books on animals. We have paired up with a friend to read informational text on various animals and their attributes. We chose a 'just right' book to read to our class as well as the other kindergarten classes! Within this activity we made 'readers theater expectations' to include in our presentations. They are: taking turns reading each page, paying attention/listening to our partner, voices loud and clear, showing pictures to our audience, reading the title and author, reading our books with fluency and accuracy, and sharing our visual aide with an introduction and labels. We have worked so hard to be a resource to learn from for other classes, since they are learning about animals as well. Rigor and grit are two things we all showed through this activity!

All about penguins!

We studied penguins in our unit on animals. Welearned about them through nonfiction informational texts and movies.We added newly learned facts to an anchor chart. Within one of thebooks we read, we saw a chart that showed different types of penguinsand how they differ in height. Your students came up with the idea ofmaking a life-size version of this chart. We got straight to workpairing up, picking different penguins to represent, finding objects onthe room to use to measure (in inches, we used 1 inch long squaretiles), then measured out and drew our penguins. Of course we had todraw them from shortest to tallest. Ask your student which penguin theymeasured and drew! Or better yet, come and take a look at our wonderfulpenguin chart hanging in our hallway :)

Come solve our math problems!

We are currently working on our addition and subtraction skills. We created story problems that include these skills for our Robinson students and teachers to solve as they walk by. We have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to check their answers to see whether they were correct or incorrect. On Friday, we were able to check answers...we have some mathematicians here at Robinson!

Author Visit at Robinson!

Here is Deborah Hopkinson, sharing her knowledge about being a writer and reader! We loved learning about her books on historical fiction! Ask your kiddo what was their favorite book written by her.