We finished up our plant unit and will continue to watch our little marigold sproutlings grow into our secret Mother's Day presents. ;) We ordered our caterpillars last week and they arrived first thing Monday morning. The kids were ecstatic! They have been growing fast, so we talked about the different kinds of caterpillars and what they eat today. Next we will work on their life cycle.
In math we have been practicing greater than and less than and I got to get out my alligators, which is one of my favorite lessons. I love Pinterest!
We also learned how to play war and the kids could not get enough of it! It's my secret weapon to subitizing! :) I use dot cards made from index cards instead of number or playing cards and they get really quick!
This Thursday my team went to CCESC for training on the new KRA or Kinderness Readiness Assessment. It was great to see the Monroe Elementary Kinder team and get to explore this new test. I appreciated that Ohio was also seeing the dip in our student's entry skills and it was great to get some tools to help adapt our curriculum to help those students catch up and excel throughout the year!
The new term of the day was Executive Function. It was a very interesting term to get to delve into. Here essentially what it is. It controls our ability to:
- Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors.
- Demonstrate the ability to persist with a task.
- Demonstrate the ability to retain and apply information.
- Demonstrate the ability to solve a problem.
- Seek and gather new information to plan for projects and activities.
