Kindergarten Happenings!

WE had a "marbulous" week in kindergarten!  The children filled the marble jar this week!  They worked very hard and we got a lot done.  I was very impressed with all their hard work! 

SLIME TIME!  The kids wanted to open slime this week.  

They really enjoy this messy activity. 

It brought out a lot of smiles and laughter! 

 Math work board was practicing addition. 

The students had to match the correct equations to the sum. 

The equations were on petals and the sum was on the middle of the flower.  

Hunter is very proud of his work! 

 This week we worked on writing our first and last names using lines properly!  

Kacie and Catie are working carefully on their names in this picture!

Math with Mr. Flournoy!  We worked on tens & ones using base ten blocks.  We worked in a large group then broke up into smaller groups. The children are working on regrouping when they get ten.  This is easier for some than others but something we are just beginning to work on.   

 Class Reader coupon!  Will turned in a class reader coupon and chose a book to read to the class. 

 He was so excited and proud to be standing in front of the group and reading! 

 Graphing jellybeans!  The students sorted, counted and recorded how many jellybeans they had in a bag.  They added different colors and counted by tens to see how many they would have if each jellybean was worth 10!  They did an amazing job on this activity! 

 Showing how to make numbers in a different way. 

The students worked on numbers 11-15.  

 Playdo fun! Building, molding and creating with playdo is a lot of fun!  

 Building with geoblocks.  Exploring balance and symmetry!

 Marble runs round 2 

The students had such a great time working with marble runs last week, we did it again with a new twist.  Instead of 6 large paper towel rolls we used 3 large and 3 small and they had to alternate them.  

The best thing of all was everyone was successful and got their marble into the cup at the bottom!  Next week we will have a new challenge for them to try!  

 Writing center creations and more slime time!  

I was able to complete all reading benchmarks this week and I will let you know what level your child is reading at soon.  I was super excited to see that everyone has made improvements and becoming great readers!  

Next Friday we will have our marble celebration.  The spirit day on Friday is bring a stuffed animal. To go along with that we will wear our pajamas and enjoy some extra choice or playground time!  Way to work hard everyone!  I am very proud of you!!  

Kindergarten Happenings!

We were very busy this week.  We wrote and illustrated two books about Spring.  We are up to 10 class books!  This is so exciting because if we make 13 each child will take one home at the end of the year.  It will make a nice keepsake.  

 This snowman math activity was a challenge. Each number was shown in different ways such as using fingers, ten frames, dominoes, dice, and words.  Way to go Kacie! 

 I hope you enjoyed your colorful eggs!  The children were very excited about painting the large eggs.  They really came out beautiful with bright colors! 

 An "egg-stra" special activity.  The children loved using the crayons to decorate the egg and were amazed as they painted watercolors on top.  The crayons act like a raincoat and resist the paint.  These also looked terrific! 

 This is an "egg-stra" special class because they work so hard!  The children did a wonderful job writing a message inside their eggs!  Their writing is looking so good!

 The students works very carefully to cut out the eggs.  

 "Egg-stra" special activities.  We learned two big words this week: oviparous & oology.

The children learned oology is the study of eggs and that oviparous is an animal that lays eggs.  We named some animals that are oviparous, a poem about eggs and read a book about eggs. Afterwards we had a STEM challenge using plastic eggs and playdo.  The students were challenged to build a tower using the eggs and see how high they could get it.  It was very challenging but many of the groups persevered and were able to accomplish something.

 Proud of their big tower! 

 We then moved outside for some egg relay races. The children were challenged to move from on spot around an egg across the way holding an egg on a spoon.  They had a great time cheering each other on!

 On Wednesday we opted to skip choice time for some extra recess time!  

The weather was perfect! 

 Thursday during enrichment we worked in partners to create marble runs.  Some of the groups were more successful than others but they all worked well together and came up with different ideas. We will continue to work on them next week with a new challenge.  

Planning & constructing

 Finished products

 Another STEM challenge - build a jellybean structure with toothpicks and jellybeans.  These girls worked really hard to come up with some structures! 

As you can see we had a busy week.  I am very proud of the children and all their hard work.  Next week we will continue to challenge ourselves and work hard.  We will be learning about our Country and working on composing and decomposing numbers 11-19.  

We are running out of cleaning spray and wipes.  I try to wash the tables a few times a day depending on the activities we complete. Any donations would be greatly appreciated!  Thank you!! 

Have a wonderful long weekend!