Our New Friends

We'd like to introduce you to a few new friends in our classroom!

 

This is Goldie, Cutie, Carly, and Tiny.

 

 

Our new friends are part of our Animals 2x2 science curriculum (and they will be looking for new homes at the end of the year).  We've been writing about our goldfish every day.

 

We are learning to observe like scientists and draw exactly what we see.  Sometimes it's really hard, when you're in kindergarten, to not draw a blue goldfish or a fish with stripes.  We are learning to make observations.

 

 

We've been labeling the parts of a fish.

 

We've also been researching all of the things fish need to live. 

 

I'm pretty sure the fish are the highlight of the school year so far.  It has been a lot of fun and a fabulous learning experience for the kids!

 

(Wait until they find out that live snails and worms come next!)

 

Oh, the fun we have in kindergarten!!!

Rice Rainbows

A few weeks ago we started working on learning to spell our color words.  As a follow up, we made some rice rainbows during centers/choice time.

 

 

It's so great to hear the kids sing the spelling of the color words as they make their rainbows.

 

 

I love working with colored rice.  Not only is it pretty, but having to pinch those tiny little grains of rice is great for small motor development.

 

Happy Rainbow Day!

Sight Word Bingo

Well, I think it's a toss up!  I can't decide the kids' favorite way to practice sight words.  They love singing and dancing to their Heidisongs in the morning, but we also love shaving cream sight word practice too.  Oh, but wait... now we've added sight word bingo to the mix!

 

 

 

 

School is such a fun place to be!

 

Don't forget to keep practicing those sight words at home!  We will be testing again soon to see how many more words we know.

The Ants Go Marching

Miss Cook had our little ants marching all around the classroom last week! 

 

 

Be sure to ask your child to sing the song for you.  Singing is a great way to develop phonemic awareness and there are tons of rhyming words in this song.

 

Happy singing!

Writing at Home

If you are looking for a few ideas for writing over Spring Break, be sure to check out the printables section of my main blog.

The Spring Break Journal is my favorite printable for our week off.

Spring Break Journal


Happy writing!

Bricklayer's Snack

The  Bricklayer's Snack was our writing project for the day.  We started by reading the book/rhyme Peanut Butter and Jelly.  Be sure to ask your child to sing it for you!  We talked about the sequence of events and the transition words we heard.  (Words like first, next, and then are transition words.)

 

Kids started with a graham cracker, added some frosting, and then put another cracker on top to make a sandwich.

 

We wrote a rough draft of the process and then came the yummy part!

 



We ate them!

 

Happy writing!

Black, White, and Gray

Ask any kindergartner.  Center time is the best part of the day.  It's the time of day when we have developmental play.  There are blocks, cars, puppets, and home center.  We have the light table and sand table open.  Kids just love to explore and learn.  Last week we set up a painting table, but we resisted the urge to put out every color of the rainbow.

Instead, we experimented with black and white.

The kids mixed their paints and created.  They were creative and curious.

Happy painting!