Wow! Another very busy and productive week. We completed a lot of wonderful activities and made many new discoveries! There are a lot of great pictures to share so I hope you enjoy them.
Getting ready to participate in the Jump Rope for Heart Challenge
The kids did an exceptional job jumping for 30 minutes! What a great way to get the wiggles out, move our muscles and support a meaningful cause! Ms. Draper said everyone could fill out a sneaker for this activity and have their parent initial the back. So send it in after vacation!
Welcome to our 100th day! Gramma Felo came to visit today!
Boy does she look great at 100 years old!
Love the spirit of celebration Ella!
The children did an amazing job working the entire morning on 100 day activities! They were so busy and engaged in their activities. We earned many marbles which ended up filling the jar! Here are some of the activities we completed.
100 dots - The students put 10 dots in 10 boxes to = 100 dots!
They counted by 10's to get to 100!
They also made 100 day celebration hats!
Dominic is decorating his 100 day glasses.
more hats
100 Days of Kindergarten! I just love this group!
100th day Math activities
The students worked with a partner and chose between some different
100th day math activities that focused on using a 100's chart.
100th day math activities that focused on using a 100's chart.
Making a row of 4
Students took turns to try to connect four of their chips in a row. In order to claim the spot they had to pick a number and identify it correctly. This also involved strategy planning.
Emoji math - students had to write the number that was hidden under different emoji faces.
Writing numbers to 100!
Party math - similar to emoji math just using different missing numbers and pictures.
We also counted to 100 by 1's, 5's & 10's and did 100 exercises.
Here are the fabulous 100th day projects the children shared! They did a wonderful job sharing and telling us about how they counted and who helped them with their project. Thanks for helping your child with this activity. They were very proud of their work!
100 skittles make a rainbow
100 gumballs in a machine (pom poms)
Ella put 100 kisses on hearts
100 foam stickers in a bag
100 seashells on a frame using our class picture
100 cups to make a castle
100 faces to make the #100
Josie brought in 100 ponies
100 flowers to decorate the letter "C"
100 sequence to make hearts
100 feathers in a jar
100 beads on the letter "A"
Fabulous job on the projects!!
Stacking 100 cups! We lost 3 to injuries, haha!
Great tower!
Valentine's Day!!
Another exciting day in the books but once again the students were amazing!!
Making a robot to hold a special message
stained glass heart
Love you to pieces activity
LOVE is....
"kindness and caring. Happy Valentine's Day."
"cuddling with my mommy. Happy Valentine's Day. To mom and dad. I love you."
"friendship. Love is cuddling with my dad and my mom. Love is being nice."
"getting together. Love is helping each other."
"friendship and helping each other."
"good for you. Love is fun."
"sweetness and happiness."
"staying together. Love is friendship."
"happiness. Love is friendship."
Most of the children wanted to hang these in the hall for a little bit and a couple of them wanted to take them home. If you did not get yours, don't worry it will come home later on.
Some great ideas on what love is. A very sweet group of children!
Candy heart science and exploration.
Opening their Valentine's! They were so cute to watch and listen to as they opened each card. The children were very polite and thankful too!
Cate finishing her special snack! She was loving it!
Our future professionals! They looked great and even posed for the picture!
Crazy hair / hat day!
Mr. Campbell suiting up for silly string!
We had one lucky student from our class picked to spray silly string.
Great job Arianna!!
Looking good Mr. Campbell. Way to be a good sport!
Well as you can see it was a very busy week but we had a lot of fun learning and exploring together! We decided to push off our marble celebration until after vacation as a couple students are not here this week. I will send something home following vacation about the marble party!
I hope you all have a wonderful winter break!
