Snowman soup

Snowman soup? What is snowman soup? After fininshing our unit on winter and snowmen we enjoyed a nice cup of Hot Chocolate! (snowman soup) We added water, chocolate mix and marshmellows. Before I told them what snowman soup was I asked the students what they thought it was. Their reply: a little bit of snow and some soup, maybe some veggies or maybe some stones????? How about some noodles! I told them we would not use noodles, but we would use marshmellows!

After we enjoyed our nice cup of hot chocolate, we graphed whether we liked hot chocolate or not. We also graphed if we liked it with or without marshmellows. (I think I can find a way to graph any type of yummy food) I just love (food) math!

The students are getting really good at reading our graphs, and enjoy guessing how our graph will end up! We discovered: more students in our class liked their snowman soup with marshmellows then without!

Science Day- weighing and measuring

Kindergarten has been busy the last few weeks! Thanks to our volunteers we had another successful Science day! I think the parents had as much fun as the kids. This time we weighed many different objects, we estimated how much things would weigh, and what would weigh more. We also investigated volume, which cup would hold more water. I tried to trick the students with cups that were tall and thin and ones that were short and fat, but they were too smart and didn't fall for my trickery! We also measured items with our rulers. I just love how involved they get with science day. It is so much fun for them to have the hands on experience.

Welcome back everyone!!!

Well, it is good to be back at school. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas break!
Kindergarten has started the New Year off by talking about winter and mittens. We have read the story "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and created our own mittens. In the next few weeks we will explore snowmen, bears and penguins. We have some great activities ahead of us.
This Tuesday is Science day. The kids really love science day, so thank you so much to all the parents who volunteer to come in and help. I will post some pictures soon!
Enjoy your weekend!

Gingerbread houses

Kindergarten made Gingerbread house today and we had tons of fun. For the last week we have been reading several stories about the gingerbread man and we finished our unit by tasting and graphing gingerbread men and making our gingerbread houses. It has been a tasty week!! I know they had a blast creating (and eating) their masterpieces. I have never seen so much candy in one place!! Thank you everyone for your donations to our project and thank you to the parents who came in to help and take pictures! It isn't possible with out you.

The students had such a good time!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

Gingerbread Unit

Kindergarten has been reading many different versions of "The Gingerbread Man" story. We have read two different versions of the Gingerbread Man, one called "The Gingerbread Boy", one called "The Gingerbread Baby" and today we read "The Gingerbread Pirates". (so far that is my favorite) Each story is a little different. We talk about how they are similar and how they are different. The students are really enjoying these stories. I especially love when they recite parts from the story! We are looking forward to reading "The Gingerbread Friends", The Gingerbread Girl" and "The Gingerbread Cowboy". Who knew there were so many different stories about a gingerbread man? Friday we will be tasting Gingerbread cookies, in math we will be graphing whether we liked them or not and what part we ate first, the head, arm, or leg. Thank you Mrs. Stevens for picking them up. ( they will be safe for our children with nut allergies). Next week we will be making our gingerbread houses. This is such a fun activity! The students are looking forward to it. They get so excited everytime someone brings in candy for our houses. Check back later for pictures from the activity!

Pumpkin pie tasting

Last week in math we tasted pumpkin pie and graphed whether or not we liked it. We also graphed if we liked it with whipped cream or without! It was a lot of fun. Many of the students didn't think they would like it, but found that they did. (I think they liked the whipped cream the most) This week we are doing gingerbread man addition and we are working on numbers to 50.

Speaking of Gingerbread men, we will be making gingerbread houses on December 14th. More information will come home soon. The kids really love this activity. We will start our unit on Gingerbread men this week, I will read many different versions of the Gingerbread Boy story and we will compare them. It is a fun unit!

Thanksgiving book

We just finished our unit on Pilgrims, Indians and the first Thanksgiving feast. The students made a book about the Pilgrims trip to America and their encounter with the Indians. We learned many interesting facts and read many great books about the first Thanksgiving feast. Their books will come home on Monday. Please have them read their books to you. Maybe they can be part of your Thanksgiving celebration. They put a lot of time and effort into these books and I think they turned out great!

Mrs. Lessentien and I wish you all a Happy and blessed Thanksgiving.