AIMSweb

Parents, I have included several practice activities for our upcoming May AIMSweb test.  These practice activities should be randomly used and completed in one minute by the students.
Feel free to download these and practice at home. :)

AIMSweb Missing Number Practice 2

AIMSweb Number Practice

AIMSweb Number Practice 2

AIMSweb Missing Number Practice

American Symbol Projects

We finished up our American Symbols unit with a fun project.  I found the cutest idea on Pinterest.   ThirdGradeTroop.com had an idea for a "box" project.  My kindergarten students picked one symbol and wrote 3 sentences and included a picture on their box.  The kids had a blast finding out new information and sharing the boxes with the class.  See a few pictures below.  This was a great cumulative assignment.  Thanks Third Grade Troop for sharing!!

Free Writing

Hi all,
Our Kindergarten team attended a writing training recently.  We learned a lot of new stuff and refreshed ourselves on the old.  My students are really enjoying the "free writing" aspect.  I give my students 15 minutes of free writing time without a topic.  The students choose the topic.  They are allowed to write the entire time and without talking or interuptions.  The students are instructed to simply write and not worry about punctuation or conventions.  After the timer goes off, the students finished his/her thoughts.  Parent share times comes next.  Each student turns to his/her "table buddy" and reads their writing to the buddy.  The only statement that can be made is a positive comment like great job or thanks for sharing.  It has really had my Kindergarten students more open to writing more, sharing and composing thoughts and putting them on paper.  It has been great for my struggling writer.  After this experience, the writing samples can then be edited the following day.  We usually do a "free writing" activity every Friday now.  See below a few samples of my student's work.