Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Estimation

What a great day in kindergarten!!!

We had four centers this morning.  We worked on our personal learning paths on abcmouse.com:

We practiced writing our sight words and listening for the /t/ sound.

We picked an amazing word and created a setting for our construction machine.

We put together words to make a sentence that made sense.  Then we wrote and illustrated the sentence.

During SMART time today we used our hand muscles to push feathers into styrofoam and then pluck them out.

We sculpted and molded our pumpkin pie playdough.

We laced using fall themed lacing cards.

We also practiced identifying our coins while bouncing on the trampoline.

For our cool down, we practiced our belly breathing and listened to some relaxing music.

For our math lesson we talked about estimation.  We talked about how sometimes it's okay to have a good guess instead of the "right answer."  We estimated the number of cubes in a jar.  We used a jar of ten cubes to help with our estimations.  When giving our guess, we said, "about____ cubes."  Because an estimation is not an exact answer.  We also talked about why estimations of 1 or 99 would not be good guesses for these jars of cubes.

Have a great evening!  I look forward to meeting with several of you tomorrow evening!

Love,
Mrs. Huettl

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