October 10, 2008

Welcome to the trial kindergarten blog. Feel free to leave comments, if you like. I'm going to try to post snippets of what we have done each day, in an attempt to give you some leverage as you ask "So, what did you do in school today?" (Especially if you have a kid like mine, who always says, "um, nothing much..." I can't promise that it will be workable, but I wanted to give it a try.

So, here goes:

Today we had choice time, as always - the pizza parlor is still up, and so is the painting easel, the writing center, and the art table. We had afternoon meeting. After meeting, we drew the October version of our self-portraits (we'll do one each month throughout the school year, and then compare them at the end). After our art project, we did Writer's Workshop, and learned about how some writers make the pictures before the words, and others make the words first. Then, we WROTE for about 20 minutes. After all of our hard work writing, we went outside for a bit of recess (can you believe the afternoon weather?). We got to be outside at the same time as Mr Wold's class!!! When we came back in, we had a short math time -- we practiced counting by tens, and talked about what counting by tens means using the number chart. After that, we had just enough time to get all of our things packed up and read a little bit more of Esio Trot by Roald Dahl (our end-of-the-day book) before we went home or to Minneapolis Kids.

Have a great weekend!!