Friday, February 14, 2020

Kindergarten Happenings!

Here are a few photos I forgot to include in yesterdays post as well as ,
pictures from our awesome Valentine's Day! 
 STAR STUDENT ~ Kaylie was our student of the week and she did a wonderful job sharing her family page, all about me pages, and her harmonica.  She had some great clues for her share item.  Way to go Kaylie !  I hope you enjoyed your special week!  

 Valentine challenge
Students were given two dowels, a cardboard heart, model magic and tape.  They had to find a way to get the point of the heart to balance on their finger.  It was quite challenging but the kids were able to do it and felt proud of themselves once they got it.  Way to rise to the challenge!!




 The gingerbread boy left us some Valentine hearts and a note letting us know that after all his travels he is headed to Puerto Rico.  He said that he saw a lot of great places but loved the warmth and adventure he could find in Puerto Rico. So if you are traveling keep your eye out. 😉
 We want to thank everyone who helped make this project so fun and exciting for the kids!  They absolutely loved it and we have all of you to thank for helping us!  We filled up 3 large easel pages of places that he had traveled!  Amazing!!! 


 Balancing hearts!!

 Our star of the week had another surprise because during our Monthly meeting for the month of January Kaylie was nominated for the artist of the month!  Way to go Kaylie!  
 William was the hard worker for the month of January!  Awesome job William!  

So proud of you all!  Have a wonderful vacation!  


Thursday, February 13, 2020

Kindergarten Happenings!

WOW!!! We just had a very busy and exciting week! We celebrated a marble party, saw the first grade performance, celebrated the 100th day, had a visit from Mr. Campbell & Mr. Zanghi, and celebrated Valentine's Day!  Here are some pictures of our week!  
 Journal writing about someone we love.

 Cutting & sorting words with the same ending sounds. 
 Pattern Block creations 


 Choice time
 Playdo - playing bakery 
 Toys - building habitats with magnatiles, playmobile & animals. 

 Math subtraction game

 Fine motor fun
ripping paper into pieces for a special project 
 Ticket to snack - writing words on the board.
 Here are some of the reasons why they love you!! 
Happy Valentine's Day!!  















Another cool habitat built by William. 
On the 100th day, I posted 100 hearts around the room.  Each heart gave a reason why I love this group of children!  Here are some of our projects we did on the 100th day!  
 Decorating their 100th day glasses! 
 Making 100th day hats!  



 Making 100 dots for our hats
Each child counted out 10 strips and put 10 dots on each to make 100 dots. 


 Looking cool in their glasses! 
 What a great hat!  
 First grade performance.  They did an amazing job!  I love seeing former students and the growth they make from the end of kindergarten and halfway through their first grade year.  
 Looking GOOD!!  
 Wow...look at all these amazing projects!  We had donuts with 100 sprinkles,100 eyes on a monster, 100 hearts, 100 pennies, 100 pictures, 100 pac man pellets and so much more.  You will see all these great projects in the upcoming pictures!!  Awesome job counting to 100.  I heard that some started at 1, others made groups of 10, some helped mom or dad and some weren't really sure how they counted.  They did a nice job telling us about their projects, how they completed it and who helped them.  Thank you for your assistance.  
 100 day math games
 Race to 100 on a 100's chart using cubes and dice.
 Mystery numbers ~ A party themed object covered a number on the 100's chart.  The student had to figure out which number was covered and write it down.  They did very well with this especially since we haven't done a lot with large numbers yet.  
 Here was a BIG challenge that many completed.  Write the missing numbers on the 100's chart.  There were a lot more missing numbers than numbers on the chart.  I was super impressed!  


 100th day class photo! 
 Here are the amazing 100th day projects I mentioned earlier!
Tucker's 100 faces
 Kupa's 100 gems
 Amelia's sticker book with 100 stickers. 
Very clever & she set it up with 10 on each page.
 Enzo's H made out of 100 pennies
 Aubree's 100 magnetic letters
 Jordan's 100 hearts - Loving every minute of her 100 days of school! 
 Calvin wanted to bring in 100 mini lego figurines.
 Makenna's 100 cotton balls
 William's 100 piece puzzle
 Mila's monster with 100 eyes
 Harper's unicorn with 100 strings for its mane
 Nate's 100 Pac Man pellets
 Kasey's 100 mini elastics
 Kaylie's 100 Days at BMS poster with 100 Frozen stickers
 Noah's donut with 100 sprinkles
"100 days sprinkled with fun!"
 Happy Valentine's Day
Blowing you kisses!! 

 They are loving toy creations this week! 

As you can see we had a great week and got a lot of things done.  We hope everyone enjoys the winter break!  Relax, have fun and try to get some outdoor time in!  This rainy week has couped us up a little.  Hopefully the weather will be better next week so the kids can enjoy some much needed fresh air!  Have a safe and wonderful vacation!