First of all: a VIDEO of our Exciting Experiment of Elephant Toothpaste on Letter Ee Day! Enjoy!
(see what I did there with all the Ee words? Haha!)
We LOVE Pete the Cat!
This week we reviewed many skills including colors and shapes with Pete!
We read the original 3 Pete books by Eric Litwin and voted for our favorite:
During our literacy time we've been journaling.
On letter Ff day we turned a Feather into...
(be looking for a lucky duck book coming home soon with your child to find out!)
One of our Lucky Duck books is a guessing game called Who's Shoes?
Fun!
And here are two more!
Wednesday's centers included the following 4 stations:
Station 1:
Brain Break with Pete the Cat Playdough mats...
Station 2:
ABC Review with buttons...
Station 3:
Painting ABCs as we match uppercase to lowercase...
And Station 4:
One to one counting and recording using
COLOR CODING!
(first try and WOW! I am impressed!)
On letter Gg day I gave the kiddos GLOW STICKS
to play with at rest time.
We talked about chemical reactions and how cool the reaction was fluorescent!
They are trying to make a letter G with their stick...
CHOICE TIME!!!!!
These GOOFY GLASSES photos are for the Lucky Duck book mentioned above!
The kids have been playing with them ALL week!
On letter Gg day we had GUM all day!
Aren't these PETES adorable?
On letter Ff day the kids got to do a
FIZZY experiment,
you know the old vinegar and baking soda "magic"
They had a blast!
They also had to record like a scientist!
Is it even kindergarten unless we break out the glitter weekly? Haha!
Here are a few of the ABC pages from this week...
(this will be sent home after letter Zz day)
On letter Ee day we began our science talk with the classic ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE Experiment!
See video above.
Here are the cutie patootie bears we made last Friday in the hallway!
Monday's science was learning about animal body parts and what their purpose might be.
And on Ee day we just had to make Ees before we ate them!
And now for the week of September 15-19:
Reading Language Arts: Letters Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn
Rhyming and Beginning Sounds
Math: zero-5 comparing numbers
Science: Animals Move
Social Studies: We Learn at School
Theme: Apples
Big News:
Homecoming Dress Up Days
Monday: Pajama Day
Tuesday: Wacky Hair Day
Wednesday: Kindergarten wears YELLOW
Thursday: Movie Character Day
Friday: School Colors (red/black/white)
We will go to the parade on Friday and you can walk with us or meet us there if you'd like.
Your child needs to stay with their class though.
I will be IN the parade so a sub will be hired to take our class.
We will dismiss from school so you may take your child as soon as we get back.
Go Cards!
