We have continued to share about ourselves through our writing this week. I like... I can...

We were so excited to look at our books that we got from the Book Fair this week!

In our Math center, many loved working together to see if they could build the tallest tower. Then, they had to see how many cubes high their tower measured.

We have been doing an Authors Study on Todd Parr. His books pair so well with our current planner. We are loving the stories and how they all have such a positive message about being yourself, loving each other and the world!

We had fun learning about pumpkins this week! We learned all about their life cycle and then did our own experiment. We are going to try and see if we can get our pumpkin to sprout!

On Friday afternoon, our 4th Grade Reading Buddies came and we read and also made a fun snack together (Pumpkin Fluff)! It was fun to get to know each other a little more!

Picture Day was Tuesday and everyone looked so adorable and special in their non-uniform clothes! We also got to preform a song at the
​K-2 All School Morning Meeting!

At the K-2 All School Morning Meeting, students were recognized for being caring! They were presented with the "Living the Learner Profile" award. Luke was chosen from our class!

In this planner, we are learning a lot about ourselves and our friends. We are making a lot of connections about things we have in common. Our Ambassador of the Day brings in something from home to share. This week, they started a chart and the Ambassador drew a picture of what they brought. If you made a connection with that person about their item, we signed our name. We talked about how it is okay to not always like all the same things.

I love how excited we are to READ! At the Library Center, we choose good-fit books and practice reading by ourself or to each other.

In Writing Workshop we have been talking about sense words. We will be connecting sense words to word choice in our writing to make it more interesting! We have been looking for sense words in books as we read them this week too!

In Mandarin this week, we learned the vocabulary for family members. We had fun acting out each one too!  

We read with our 4th Grade Reading Buddies for the firs time on Thursday! We had so much fun getting to know them, reading to them, and them reading to us! We are so excited to get to do it each week!

Sometimes at CIS, the unexpected happens! Around 3:45pm one day, Christian Kirksey (Linebacker for the Cleveland Browns) showed up to do a meet-and-greet with students! He took pictures and signed autographs too!

Central idea
Children learn about themselves and others by sharing with friends and trying new things.
Lines of inquiry
1. Personal histories
2. Our similarities and differences
3. Being open-minded
Key Concepts
Reflection, Connection, Perspective
Learner Profile
Attributes
Risk-takers, Open-minded, Reflective
Attitudes
Confidence, Curiousity

We began our new planner this week. We started off talking about the season. Then we charted where the holidays belong. This lead to us making connections about holidays we celebrate. This also lead us to talk about some of our differences. We learned that some of us celebrate different holidays. 
We also talked about what it means to be open-minded. We read a great story that really helped us understand what being open-minded means.

We are doing well in our Centers. We are staying in our area, working together, learning, and having fun!
Our Literacy Centers consist of: Library, Word Work, Writing, Exploration. The Construction Center is open during our Discovery time at the end of the day.

In Math we have been working on

• identifying, ordering, and counting numbers 1-10
• writing numbers 1-5
• identifying circles, squares, and rectangles

In Writing Workshop this week we continued to review nouns and verbs. We have have worked on using captions in our writing and now we have moved into story sentences. We also worked together to write a letter to Mrs. Hawley's class. They accepted our invitation! We can't wait to start next week!

The Cavs Scream Team came and kicked off our day!

Kindergarten raised a total of $3,151! The school raised a total of $23,545! Thank you to everyone who helped support the cause!

We had our first all school Morning Meeting this week. Wow! We sure have a lot of kids in one building, but how great that we all get to be together now!

This is the last week of our planner and we had fun wrapping it up with our summative! We also had a special visitor from our community come speak with us about being an authority figure, as well as rules around the neighborhood.

We had so much fun celebrating the start to Fall this week! We explored leaves and used them for art and math. We also made fall patterns.

In Mandarin we are still working on number recognition and counting. We are really getting good at it!

We were talking about nouns the past few weeks and now this week we moved on to verbs. We love to share our writing!

We ended our week with an apple tasting!
​Ms. Dottore was so busy cutting apples, she didn't have a moment to take a picture! Bummer!

The Family Picnic was a lot of fun! It was great to get to see each other outside of school!

Central idea
Systems may bring order and safety to a community
Lines of inquiry
1. Where we find systems
2. The purpose of systems
3. The relationship between community helpers and systems
Key Concepts
Form, Function, Connection

The Curious kinders were very inspired by a book we read. They came in on Monday spreading so much kindness! Ava brought in a toy she had for Reuben because she knew he liked it; Alma brought in books to donate to our library; Hank drew pictures for all his friends! Wow! My heart is full on this Monday morning by how we are all living the Learner Profile!💗 #campusinternational #ibpyp

This week we focused on authority figures in our community. We talked about authority figures in our classroom, school and neighborhood community. 

In Mandarin we are now learning to count.

We continued to work a lot with ten frames and shapes this week.

Pick one pattern block. Use the block to trace and create a picture using the shape.

The Fathers Walk was a great event. So many males showed up to support our students.

We celebrated the opening of our much anticipated, beautiful, new building with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. Many community members attended this event.

We have been learning about nouns for the past couple weeks. Now we are connecting nouns to labeling and captions.

Thank you to all who were able to make it to Open House! It was so nice getting to chat with all of you and for you to get to know the other families.

We have been talking more about our duties as a good citizen and why it is important in our community and how it helps our community. We are starting to see how having systems in place, like our Classroom Jobs, really help us.

We worked on spelling our names and learned that words that name people are nouns.

We introduced antonyms and talked about opposites.

In Mandarin we are learning greetings and nouns for people.

We were learning about the attributes of shapes and investigating the world around us to find them. We had fun working with a partner looking everywhere around the room and finding shapes everywhere!

We celebrated International Dot Day by reading the book and making our own dots!

This week we talked about what rules are and what rules we follow in certain places/areas of our classroom (Ready to Learn- on the carpet, Ready to work- at the tables/centers, Ready for the Hall- traveling in our school). We also talked about our classroom community and how we can be good citizens in it.

We have some amazing architects on our hands! Our class loves to build and they are great at it!

We celebrated Sophia's birthday with a yummy treat!

We had our first Mandarin class! We loved meeting our new teacher and welcoming into our classroom!

We ended our week reading with friends and observing the airplanes from the airshow out our window!

What does it mean to be Ready to Learn in Kindergarten?

We had so much fun in our first few days of K! We focused on getting to know each other, learning about and feeling comfortable in our new environment and talking about the Essential Agreements. We focused on the first three to start.

CIS Essential Agreements
1. Listen
2. Stay with the group
3. Respect personal space
4. Speak kindly
5. Be inclusive
6. Respect the environment

Our half-days
We learned each others names, favorite foods and games, then played in small groups in different centers.

Our first full days
On our first two full days, we started with our Morning Meeting. We read a message from Ms. Dottore and then do the calendar and weather.
We practiced playing in different centers and then switching.
We went to Art with Ms. Cohen.
We went over the Essential Agreements on the Playground and then got to practice while we played!

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