Welcome to Kindergarten

Welcome to Kindergarten everyone! It was a nice start to the new year. We spent a lot of time going over some rules and procedures. They are quite excited to be at school and have been really eager to learn all about St. Joseph's. This past week the students went to the LRC, participated in Gym class and enjoyed their first spanish lesson. I am taking lots of notes so we can use some of the words throughout the day to keep up on it. Next week we will add art and music class to our days. We have a busy week ahead of us. Plese remember to sign the calendar each night and remember to empty their folders of all notes and papers. If you haven't sent in a binder with a pencil case that clips in or an art smock please do so soon. We will start using our binders on Monday. It's going to be an exciting new year. Remember to check back often. I will be posting pictures of activities on here as well. Also please refer to the kindergarten buzz for information and volunteer information. Thanks, Have a blessed week.

May happenings

Wow can you believe the end of the year is approaching.  Where has the time gone?  It's amazing how much they have grown.  This time of the year is always the hardest for me because in just a few short weeks they will be first graders and moving on.  I have really enjoyed all their stories and learning about their likes and dislikes.

As we come to the end of the year please make sure to watch the schedule I sent home.  The zoo trip and the VIP show will change our schedule a bit.  (Don't forget a lunch and a drink- see schedule)  Also  for the zoo and field days the children are out of uniform.    The day of Graduation will be a regular day, but he children will need to be back to school out of uniform by 6:00 in my classroom.  It's going to be a great evening. Bring your tissues.

This Wednesday the morning class and morning K-club will be attending Mass. (May Crowning) 
We will start presenting our zoo reports on Thursday. This project is always fun for the students.  If you are looking for an online resource you can go to www.worldbook.online.com .  Please see my kindergarten buzz for the passwords and login information.

If anyone is interested in tutoring  for the summer please let me know.

Have a great week.

Kindergarten news

The weeks are passing by too fast.

before you know it graduation will be here.  I will be sending home a schedule for the events coming up in May.  Please look at the schedule closely for changes in class times. 
In class we have been discussing spring, recycling and oviparous animals.  We have been writing in our journals and practicing subtraction.  We have been so busy.  We created some earth pictures and wrote about our earth day promises.  They will be hanging in the hall and look great.  While you are there check out our oviparous board.  The kids did a great job with their riddles.  We also made some chicks hatching out of eggs.  We read the story about Barney Bird and created him out of construction paper.  They are so cute. The students are so talented.

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.

pictures from January

science day exploring eggs

does it sink or float

magically getting the egg out of the bottle

what weighs more?

will it be the banana or the apple?

measuring the markers

measuring the chairs

what will weigh more the apple or the orange

learning about volume

snowman soup day