Saturday, May 3, 2014

May 2, 2014

Aloha P2 'Ohana! As our senior kindergarten year is starting to wind down we are beginning to do get ready for first grade. We have been doing first grade math and this week we even got to change our desk arrangement to first grade seating! We are so excited and are loving our new class arrangement.


On Monday during writing we got to create our own "Would You Rather" questions for our classmates. For the first half of our period we thought of and wrote down a "Would You Rather" question with three options, everyone was so creative! Then, for the second half we all came back together as a class, and Ms. Jennings shuffled our papers and passed them back out. We then got to answer our classmate's questions. 


"Would you rather be a horse, a lion, or a clownfish" - "I would rather be a clownfish because I can hide in the anemone"


"Would you rather take a walk, a car, or a airplane?" - "I would rather take a walk because I could see everything."


"Would you rather eat an apple, or a banana, or a orange?" - "I would rather eat an apple because it has sweet juice."


"Would you rather be Hook, Frozen, or a king?" - "I would rather be a king because they have a castle."


"Would you rather be a bat, or Ms. Jennings, or a boy?" - "I would rather be a bat because I like to eat bugs."

On Thursday for math, we started to find missing numbers in equations. Ms. Jennings was so impressed that we grasped the concept so quickly, she even tried this hard problem, which we got correct! These would be really great problems to practice at home.


We also started learning about Australia this week. Ms. Ku'ulei taught us about The Great Barrier Reef. Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef is 1,200 miles long, the longest coral reef in the world? It is home to over 1,400 different types of fish. We got to watch a clip of the Great Barrier Reef on nationageographic.com (http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/oceans-narrated-by-sylvia-earle/oceans-barrier-reef), we were so amazed how beautiful the coral reef was and how many fish live there. We all agreed that we would like to see it in person one day. And on Friday, since we were learning about Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, AND we filled our marble jar, we got to watch Finding Nemo!






On Monday (5/5) we will be doing a special Boys Day project, and on Friday (5/9) is Aunty Carman's and Ms. Ku'ulei's last day with us. We hope everyone has a great week. See everyone on Monday!

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