Kindergarten Happenings!!

Hands on Nature with Ms. Heather

WOW!  We had an amazing time with Ms. Heather exploring the pond!  The kids did an exceptional job taking turns with the nets, being careful and finding all sorts of different creatures.  Ms. Heather had buckets and containers where we were able to place our findings and get a true hands on experience with the animals. We would like to thank LINK Inc. for offering this opportunity to us!  It is honestly one of my favorite things we do!!  To top it off we had a PERFECT day weather wise! Here are a ton of pictures from our awesome afternoon!  

We began learning about the creatures we would see in the pond and what different animals looked like at different stages in their life. 

 Ms. Torgersen helping the children scoop up some little creatures. 

 Happy explorers

 I was super excited about one of my own catches! A HUGE bullfrog! 

 Meira had a really exciting catch.  A crayfish with little tiny eggs attached to it. We showed the children but then placed it back in the pond so that the eggs would survive.  

  When you turn them over they are simply beautiful.

 Daniel had a great catch as well.  A big bullfrog!  He was so very proud of himself! 

 Wyatt & Eryl enjoying the pond experience!

 Touching the tadpoles

 Looking carefully and closely for a good catch!

 Reaching in but being careful not to get wet!  Nice work Everett!

 Addison & Ava a dynamic duo!

 Here's another great pair - Zoey & Journey

 Daniel looking carefully

 Jackson & Molly

 Bennett reaching in and it looks like he had success. 

He did find a very large blue crayfish. Sadly it was dead but very cool to look at. 

 Michael is paitiently waiting for the best opportunity to plunge the net! 

 Meira and Riona looking very happy with their discoveries. 

Ms. Heather and I caught a few painted turtles. 

As you can see, I was super excited with my best catch yet! Two painted turtles in one scoop! 

 My lucky day, maybe I should play the lottery.  LOL

 Time to explore!

 Michael liked this little frog. 

Tadpoles we caught.  There were more but we let some go.  

snails 

 My big bullfrog.  

 Getting ready to say goodbye to our creature friends.

Mrs. Bennett released one of the painted turtles. 

Group photo before we left the pond and went over to the wet area near the parking lot.

Ms. Torgersen was super excited to catch a frog!  

She found it at the other water area and caught it with her hands!  

 

 Catching teeny tiny tadpoles with our hands. 

As you can see it was an amazing day!  The children had a blast!  Thank you for remembering to send in extra shoes or boots.  We only had a few children get a little wet but everyone was happy and proud of their discoveries!  

Please send in boots or an extra pair of old shoes tomorrow, May, 21st because we will be exploring the pond in the afternoon.  You may also want to include an extra pair of socks to change into and apply sunscreen before your child leaves in the morning.  

Kindergarten Happenings!

Another busy week in kindergarten!  We continue to work hard reviewing skills we have learned as well as practice some new skills.  We also began some planting activities this week. Here are some pictures to enjoy from our week of hard work! 

 Jackson is sorting long vowel sounds. 

He has to identify the picture, say the word and sort it under the correct long vowel sound. 

 Zoey is working on sounding out CVCC & CVCE words.  

She is using magnetic letters to build each word for the picture on the card. 

Ava created a cool pattern block tower. 

 Another creative pattern block design by Addison & Meira. 

Working on matching base ten blocks and higher numbers. 

Wyatt & Zoey are working on building a 100's chart puzzle.

Second Graders came in to survey us. We can't wait to go down the hall and see the results of the surveys posted.  

 I have....Who has....?

Wow, were we impressed with this one.  The children had cards with numbers and then words for tens & ones.  The children had to listen to the number of tens and ones and look at their card to see if they had the card. They did a terrific job!  Boy were we impressed!  

I have 78.  Who has 3 tens and 4 ones? 

 Happy Birthday Addison!  We hope you had a fabulous 6th birthday!  

You looked so pretty in your dress and hat!  

Mystery Reader!  Yeah!! 

Thank you Mrs. Roberts for coming in and reading two terrific stories to the children!  

Meira was so very excited to have you!  

 Zoey was practicing writing sight words and sentences!  Here are two sweet sentences she wrote about her mom and dad! 

 Practicing handwriting - using some HWT practice pages and HWT aps. 

 Strengthening our finger muscles by tearing paper and making a colorful flower! 

 Class reader coupon - Bennett chose a book about farms to share with the class.

 Planting - We planted grass seed in socks to make "Hairy Heads" and flower seeds in pots. With a little luck we will have some sprouts by the end of the week!  

 Some of the children loved getting dirty with the soil.

 Coloring a book about the life cycle of plants. 

Next week we will talk about the farm, changes plants and animals make and continue planting activities.  We also have a few exciting things happening this week.  We will be exploring the pond on Tuesday with Ms. Heather. We have the Memorial Day Program on Thursday and our field trip on Friday.  Looks like we will be very busy and engaged in a variety of activities!  We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  The weather finally pulled through for us!