Using rubber number stamps to make clocks. We had a busy week in Early Kindergarten! We did two cooking projects, had a class visitor, chased after a gingerbread man, and had a school assembly! This week was all about cementing the beginning of the year concepts we have been learning these past 5 weeks. We started out the week talking about time. We discussed clocks and connected the concept of time to our own school schedule and the students routines at home. The purpose of these lessons was to give the students beginning skills in time management, as well as providing them ownership over a resource (our visual class schedule) to help them process our daily transitions, and feel comfortable in the classroom. For the second part of the week we talked more in depth about the "whos" of school. We had a visit from Mrs. Hoefer, Head of School. The students asked her questions about her job at school and about herself. Mrs. Hoefer also came back to have lunch with the students, allowing them to get to know someone they see often at school but don't visit often. In an effort to continue getting to know the other teachers and students in our school, we baked a gingerbread boy and girl on Thursday, who then ran away from us on Friday during the school assembly. We had to search the school looking for them. The purpose of this activity was to continue to familiarize the students with the rest of PNA. We asked around the front offices, and in the upstairs classrooms, getting to connect with the older students and their teachers. We eventually found out runaways in Mr. Yancik's 4th grade classroom. I want our EK students to feel like they are apart of the whole school community and that the school is a safe environment where they belong. Sometimes it can be hard to move outside of our classroom bubble. Hopefully we will continue to do activities like this that allow us to visit and partner with other classes at PNA. Lastly, at the end of the day Friday we made friendship applesauce. At circle we talked about how each student's apple was different, different colors, different sizes, and different tastes, but that together all these unique apple can make some really wonderful applesauce. Then we made a graph of our apples' colors and counted the apples. The students then washed and cut their apples and put them in the pot. After cooking, we used my grandmother's food mill to press the soft apples to applesauce. The students loved it and kept coming back for seconds! (Thank you to the parents who waited while we finished the project. I really appreciate your flexibility!) We will definitely be making Friendship Applesauce again!
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