Science day and more

Last week we explored our senses during science day.  It was so fun to look, taste, smell, feel and listen to many different things.  The tasting part was our favorite.  (pictures to follow soon) I really enjoyed watching them put their hands into the sock to feel what was inside.  Their faces were priceless and their imaginations were quite wild.  One child thought a sock of balloons were worms.  I could hardly keep from laughing when she put her hand in and made a "eww gross face"  (because I knew they were balloons  I could laugh).  I don't know about them but I had a ball.

This past week we continued our unit on President's Lincoln and Washington.  We made some awesome presidents. They will be hanging in the hall soon.  Speaking of our hall, our penguins are finally up.  Come check out the facts we learned and wrote about them.  Plus they are so cute.

This week we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss. We will be reading stories written by Dr. Seuss and we will be watching some movies based on these stories.  We made some Dr. Seuss hats which we will wear on Tuesday when we celebrate his birthday.

On March 7th we will be attending Mass.  We will have a special visit from the Bishop.  He will also visit our classrooms that day.

Our next science day is moved to March 12th.  I am in need of volunteers.  If you are interested please let me know.  We will be exploring physical change.  It is a yummy science day.

I will post pictures from science day soon.

Our 100th day! and a special visitor

Last week we celebrated our 100th day in kindergarten.  I can't believe we have been in school for 100 days.  They have really changed and grown so much.  For our celebration we had cupcakes, took 100 licks of a lolly pop along with 100 steps.  We filled in our 100 chart and wrote about what we would do if we had 100 dollars.  I think everyone had a wonderful time.  On the 101th day we shared our 100 day collections.  They did a great job giving clues and guessing.
During Catholic schools week we started an experiment with evaporation.  We read a story about Bob the snowman and how he traveled south, melted then he evaporated up to the clouds, traveled back to his home via the clouds and fell like snow from the clouds and his "family" built him again.
We filled a cup with water and have marked it weekly to see how much water evaporated.  Our cup is almost empty.  It's awesome to see how excited the students are to measure each week how much water has evaporated.

Also during Catholic schools week, Parker came to visit us on our crazy hat day.  He participated as well.

Gummy Bear Math, Bear Graphing



gummy bear math



Graphing our Teddy Bears



Teddy Bear Graphing

 We have been doing a lot of graphing in class lately, During our unit on Bears we not only learned some great facts about bears we also did some math about them too!  One day we sorted and graphed gummy bears.  I would say everyone had a delicious time sorting, counting and graphing.  In the next few days we will finish up our gummy math by using the graph to solved addition sentences.  We also brought in our favorite bears and graphed them in many different ways.  First we graphed them by size, then we graphed them by color.  Then we gaphed them according to whether they were wearing clothing or not.  We just love our large floor graph, it makes graphing fun.