French: Weather Reports

Coming to you live from Kindergarten TV.  The lastest, just in, weather reports from around the world.  Ms. Water's class, can you tell us what you see?

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Happy Valentine's Day!

100 Days of Fun and Learning!

On Monday, February 13th, we celebrated the 100th Day of School! Mrs. Martin and Miss Waters planned many fun activities for us including a One Hundred Day trail mix snack in which there were 10 different snacks (nut free) and we counted 10 of each snack to make 100! In addition to the 100 Day snack, we learned a 100 Day song from our poem and song book and read "The 100th Day Worries" by Margery Cuyler. We also reflected on our favorite days from the school year thus far. It was a great day! 

Read-a-thon!

Parent readers volunteered their time to read to homeroom classes in the lower school this morning. In kindergarten, we were lucky enough to have three parents come in to read to us. Some of the books read included "Moana" from the Disney movie, "Mirette on the High Wire" by Emily Arnold McCully, and "Fancy Nancy" by Jane O'Connor. THANK YOU to our parent readers who gave their time to us today! 

Groundhog Day!

Through interdisciplinary teaching, Mrs. Martin and Miss Waters applied our science unit of weather and seasons to language arts and math. In language arts we learned the song "Punxsutawney Phil" We discussed what would happen if the groundhog saw his shadow and what would happen if he didn't see his shadow. Finally, we illustrated our understanding of this fun legend.

In math, we made predictions and voted on what we thought would happen. Nine friends from Miss Waters class (including Miss Waters) predicted the groundhog would see his shadow and return to his burrow for six more weeks of winter. Six friends from Miss Waters class predicted the groundhog would not see his shadow and spring would come early. We graphed and tallied the results.

Here's to hoping for some snow or an early spring-depending on how you voted!

Happy Groundhog Day! 

Chinese New Year!

We had a special guest visit our classroom today to talk about the Chinese New Year.  She taught us some Chinese characters and how to sing a song in Chinese!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2017!

Winter has officially arrived in kindergarten! We made snowmen and labeled the parts on our big classroom snowman! Let it snow! Let is snow! Let it snow!  

We have been busy learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy through the song "Rise Up"

We also talked about how people may look different on the outside, but inside we are all the same. Miss Waters brought in eggs from her chickens, one blue and one brown. We discussed how they are different colors on the outside. After we cracked them, we discovered the yolks on the inside looked the same! This activity helped us understand Dr. King's message even better! 

In Language Arts we have been about learning word families!

Finally, in math, we used marshmallows in hot chocolate to solve some addition problems! Mrs. Martin and Miss Waters even let us eat some of the marshmallows at the end of the class!