Our Rock Star today was Sydney. She loves to skate in New Brighton community. So cool that you are involved in activities in your community, Sydney.

Sydney brought in her figure skates and shared photos of her skating at the outdoor New Brighton skating rink. We loved hearing about how fast she can skate and how she never falls down, but if she did she would get back up. Her friends were so excited to see her photos and hear about how much she likes skating. Hopefully our classmates get to see this super skater on the ice. Amazing, Rock Star Sydney.

Students finished up their last learning table this morning.

Today students participated in a more and less Smart Board activity. Students counted objects and wrote the numeral. We used comparison of the numbers to decide which number was more and which was less. We talked about how we knew:

• I see 9 flowers(Griffin)
• I see 5 lions (Olivia)
• There are more flowers (Scarlett)
• There are less lions (Liam)
• There are more lions, I know because 9 is more than 6 (Sydney)

Students completed a Cookie Monster problem solving activity as a class. We learned that Cookie Monster loves cookies. He will only eat cookies with more than five chocolate chips (picky eater, eh?). Students as a class drew examples of cookies he would eat and cookies he would not eat. We shared our justification using sentences. Very impressive, kindergarten. After our class activity, students made two cookies-one cookie that Cookie Monster would choose to eat, and one that he would not eat. After completing their cookies, they shared their thinking with Mrs. Johnston. See the activity and rubric below: 

Proficiency Level	Success Criteria
1	Count a set of objects or dots: Student counts one set of chocolate chips
2	Compare 2 sets of objects and identify which shows more or less:  Student identifies which cookie has more chocolate chips  or less chocolate chips
3	Construct and compare a set of objects that shows more than or fewer than a given set of objects:  Student makes two cookies and draws chocolate chips, either more or less than 5
4	Compare and describe sets of objects using words such as more, fewer, as many as, or the same number: Student makes two cookies and draws two sets of chocolate chips; one is more than 5 and one is less than 5 and describes using more or less

Reminders:

• there is no school tomorrow for all New Brighton students 
• next week there is no school for AM kindergarten on Friday