Week of December 4th

Here are some pictures from our field trip.  They are a little out of order, but you can still see all the fun we had.  (if you click on a picture, they will show up bigger and you can scroll through them.)

We watched a movie of Disney classics.

This was our first tree to look at.

Nora wanted to make sure I got a picture of her eating her sandwich :)

We had sack lunches in the room before we left.

We crossed a bridge like the Billy Goats Gruff.  Dylan spotted the troll by the bridge.

This was my favorite tree.

All of the trees had a fairy tale theme.  This one below was Goldilocks (notice the small chair on top?)

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Mermaid

Another favorite was the Wizard of Oz.  This tree was upside down and we could see Dorothy's ruby red slippers.

Next we got to hear a story.

James checking himself out in the Magic "mirror, mirror on the wall"

This week we have been talking about how different places all over the world celebrate holiday's in December. We have talked about Germany and that they put one of their shoes out for St. Nick to fill.  During rest we put a shoe by the front door of the school, and low and behold, we each got a candy cane and gold chocolate coin.  I think they really enjoyed this.

Please leave comments, or send an email and let me know what the highlights of the week were.  I love to hear what the kids are enjoying.  We had a lot of fun this week.

Have a great weekend!
Melissa

Week of November 29th

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving week.  We strung certain color beads on a a pipe cleaner to make a bracelet.  Each bead represented a part of the Thanksgiving story.

Showing our grandparents some of our work.

Ashley brought in her American girls doll for sharing.  The kids couldn't get over how they matched so nicely.

We learned a new game this week in math called disappearing train.  They worked well together taking turns.

Week of November 14th

Here we are working on our "pets" book.  We cut out our sight words to make a sentence and glued them back in order.

Here are some of your new centers this week.  We worked on spelling out color words, then wrote them on paper.

Smartboard...

Balancing with the pan balance.  We used playdough and bears and tried to make the balance, or even out.

Making "our family" book.

We have been talking about order words, or the sequence of events.  Today the students put the events of 'Pete the Cat' back in order.

For math we went and asked the 2nd grade friends in Mrs. Cayton's class a question (Do you like to eat turkey :)  We made tally marks for their answers, charted it, discussed and shared with the class our findings.  The kids really enjoyed this activity.

What a fun week we have had in Kindergarten!!!!