Friday, May 24, 2019

May 24, 2019

Hi Families,

We have had another exciting week in kindergarten!

Library Books
Beginning June 10th all library books need to be returned so that Mrs. Norman can begin the checking in and reshelving process. 

DrumFIT
DrumFIT addresses students' physical, emotional, and intellectual needs, making fitness a blast!


The benefits of DrumFIT include:
  • -Strengthens heart and lungs
  • -Builds healthy, strong bones
  • -Improves flexibility
  • -Increases muscular strength and endurance
  • -Adaptable for all physical ability levels
  • -Builds brain connections
  • -Promotes social emotional learning
  • -Improves coordination
  • -Teaches fine motor skills and spatial awareness
  • -Increases focus and attention
Math
Students continue to explore problem solving, documentation (organization/ labeling) and articulating their understandings. We explored the following problems from the NRICH math website: https://nrich.maths.org/primary

Problem 1:
Kinders are playing with gum balls, one blue, one red and one green.
They throw the gum balls, and they land in a row of three. How many different ways could the balls land? Ask your child how many solutions they found.

Problem 2:

Which of the buildings below would fall down if we tried to make them? Which ones would be unstable and possibly collapse? What shapes do you see? What shapes make the most stable building?

Problem 3:
What might the next two dominoes be in each of these sequences?
Can you explain why you chose those two dominoes?