| A Look Around Room 5 |
| Welcome to Room 5! The home of Mrs. Coulouris' Young Five Kindergarteners. |
| The supply table is where the children find everything they will need to complete the days work. Pencils, crayons, markers, scissors, glue sticks, and their supply box. |
| Room 5 is lucky to have some special carpet...this area is used for our morning message and phonics lessons. |
| The calendar and weather area teach many beginning math and science skills. Place value is easy to learn when Zero helps. Zero is a regular visitor to our room. He is "Zero The Hero", he's come to help us today. He's Zero The Hero! |
| Science is always fun with children. The topics center around plants and animals and how they grow. |
| The front area of the room holds the very important clues for letters, sounds, and spelling patterns. The morning message teaches punctuation, letter formation and sentence structure on the shared writing tablet. Shared reading, rhyming words and word families are explored in lots of good literature. |
| Our chicka-chicka-boom-boom coconut tree is the cornerstone for our classroom library. A fun and relaxing place to read a favorite book or look at interesting pictures in Zoobook or Ranger Rick magazines. |
| The Word Wall and Writing Table are two important locations in our room during Kid Writing time. It is here that the children find many of the words that come up frequently in their writing. It is important for children to understand that adults don’t know how to spell everyword and it is OK to copy words that we are learning. |
| Whether it is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or She’ll Be Coming 'round the Mountain, the children love to sing! Exciting things begin to happen when the instrument basket comes out. Ah…the sound of jingling bells, clashing cymbals and bongo drums. |
| Snack Time!! Wow, it there a more powerful phrase than that? Can you still remember having milk and graham crackers in Kindergarten? |
| Mrs. Coulouris enjoys a comfortable work area with internet access and a never ending supply of happy notes. |
| Each morning the children find their journals or another morning activity waiting for them at their work table, along with a name practice page. The journals are used for Kid Writing. This is Mrs. Coulouris' favorite part of the day. After completing any practice papers at their tables, the children then move to practice centers. |