Tuesday, March 31, 2015

We are scientists, mathematicians, writers, and teachers!

We are thrilled to be back in our spring uniforms after a restful Spring Break! We continue to learn about measurement as our plants grow taller. It was so exciting to find a few buds beginning to open up as the weather begins to get warmer. We have enjoyed taking pictures of the growing plants and, just like real scientists, we are learning to draw what we see in the picture. We are making observations and predicting what the plants will be once they bloom. We also measure our plant each time we observe it so that we can see how tall it grows. They seem to grow and change as fast as we do!





Inside the classroom we have practiced measuring our bodies with sticks, inchworms, chains, and even our own feet!


We are continuing to learn new words families. Our focus this week is on the -ug family. We learned about insects, made ladybug hats, and created a new page for our word family book.






These girls always love an opportunity to be the teacher! Today we spent our math time teaching each other some games we have learned to help reinforce our math skills.






Happy Spring!




Friday, March 27, 2015

Updates from Tech

This month the girls have been working in the My Story app.  Students created an island and a map in art then created a book about this island.  The book included pictures of the island as well as the map and information about the people, animals, and interesting facts about the island.  Students were also given the opportunity to record themselves reading the story.  

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Measuring







WE SPENT THE WEEK EXPLORING MEASURING!















Thursday, February 26, 2015

Art: Something From Nothing





















Hi! I’m Marissa Hiivala and I have had the pleasure to work with Kindergarten in the art studio. We recently read Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, a story in which the main character makes something from nothing.  So, we embarked on a journey exploring our “nothing” materials like paper towel rolls, straws, egg cartons, etc.  The girls first changed their materials repeatedly inspired by a quote from artist, Jasper Johns – “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something to it again.” They have started to combine the changed objects using ideas we got from our changes. Our final step will be to make a book about our progress! What ideas did your kindergartner come up with?

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Catching Up

February may be the shortest month of the year, yet we somehow manage to pack quite a lot of activity into our time together! We have been busy celebrating several birthdays, Presidents Day, Valentine's Day and our 100th day of school. Enjoy some pictures of our classroom adventures!

We decorated bags to hold all of our Valentine goodies:





We exchanged our Valentines and thanked each of our friends for the special notes. So much love!








We had a scavenger hunt to find 100 daisies. It took all day, but we finally found them all!




We made 100th Day hats - 10 stickers on 10 strips of paper = 100 stickers




We organized our 100 things by groups of 10. It was such fun to see the many creative collections of 100. Thank you for helping your daughters create their collections!





We raced to 100 and complete 100 chart puzzles:




What fun to celebrate the February holidays!


This morning we enjoyed a special visit from Ms. Nothstein. She read two wonderful stories, including Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel. Ask your daughter if she can remember his full name - it is quite a tongue twister!