Exciting News!!!

Kindergarten is getting a Smart Board!!!! I am so excited about this. There are so many great interactive activities we will be able to do. The learning activities are endless!.
I am not sure when the installation will be complete, but I hope it is soon!
I will keep you posted!!!!

February Activities

Wow, I can't believe this is the end of February

We celebrated so much this month: our 100th day, Valentines Day, Presidents Day and Science day. I apologize for not updating our blog, it has been a crazy month, but now that things are back to normal I promise I will update each week.

Our 100th day celebration was so much fun. We celebrated by doing several 100 day activities and eating cupcakes. My favorite activity was to lick a lolly pop 100 times. I think they enjoyed it too! Didn't they look cute in their crowns and glasses. We looked forward to this day all year. We finally had 100 straws in our bundle pack, and we put a $1.00 bill in our piggy bank. How exciting.

We celebrated Valentines day with a party, I am sorry I had to miss it, but I heard the kids had a great time. I would love to see pictures if anyone has any. Thank you for the special valentines Mrs. Lessentien and I received from you.

We also celebrated Presidents Day by learning about George Washington and Abe Lincoln. We learned so many great facts, created a class book about them and made some really cute Presidents that are hanging in our hall.

Finally, our science day this month was exploring our 5 senses. I love this science day, we learned about out taste buds, we had fun feeling the objects in the socks, and we got to taste many different things. The lemon tasting was priceless. Thank you parents for all your help with our science days. I couldn't do it without any of you!

Teddy Bear Math

Well, as most of you have heard we have a snow day for Wednesday, February 2nd. I hope everyone stays indoors and stays safe!

Last week we talked about Bears, we will finish up our unit this week (if the snow allows). We had lots of fun the day we brought our Teddy Bears to school. So many different Bears! We decided to graph them. We discussed their size, their color, and how they were dressed (or not). We got out our big graph and went to work! It was so much fun!!!! We really love our floor graph. Its fun to gather around it and be part of the graphing.

Penguins, mittens and math!

As January draws to an end I am amazed at how much we have learned. If you walk through the kindergarten halls you will find artwork, writings and math! We have read so many great stories about mittens, winter, penguins and snowmen. We made some mittens like in the story "THE MITTEN" by Jan Brett and we wrote about what we found in our mittens. W also learned some great facts about penguins. There are 17 different species of penguins, they live in warm and cold regions. They can swim 15 mph, and they can stay underwater for 18 minutes. To learn more come see our penguins hanging on the wall with all the facts that we learned. The kids are really doing a great job with their handwriting and they loved creating their penguins.
We have been taking our weekly math test on addition. I am amazed at how much they look forward it, they ask everyday "is it Friday?" When I ask why? they always say they want to take their math test! I love it! Speaking of math, you will also see our snowman math, we created snowmen and gave him buttons, then we added the buttons and wrote a math sentence.
Stop by there is so much to see!!!!

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!