September-October Week 4

It was HAPPY APPLE WEEK 

In Kindergarten!!!!

(if you are looking for an update on next week's activities, I will always put them at the end of the photos)

Thank you for sending in all the nice apples for our fun and educational activities!

We thought like scientists as we made diagrams of an apple:

We labeled the parts of an apple tree:

We read about and created these cutie-patootie 

Johnny Appleseeds!

We've been looking at 

COOPERATION as one of our C.A.R.E.S

school wide study on character development.

Yes, we are all GOOD APPLES!

This chart shows what we learned about apples.

It's called a 

CAN HAVE ARE chart.

We measured with apples.

You get to see me and Mr. Tom however we did measure everyone!

We found the star when we cut an apple!

We ate whole apples, homemade applesauce and dried apples!

We used our senses to describe apples!

(this was an introduction to adjectives!)

Here's our cooking pictures!

(the blog loads pictures recent to older no matter how I do it so they will be in reverse order this year)

Dried Apples:

Applesauce:

Looks like a fun process!

(it was!!!)

We\graphed our apples by color:

We really really really looked at our apples like artists would and drew what we saw.  It was exciting to notice that a red apple is not all red!

Here's our apple station!

(see  the big apple adjective chart? Fun!)

Here are our actual apple graphs.

We sorted into size...

and color...

We LOVE LOVE LOVE the apple discovery table!

And  now for the week of October 5-9:

Reading Language Art: Letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp

Star word: I

beginning sounds and rhyming review

Math: comparing 0-5

Theme: leaves, owls, fire safety

Social Studies: Leaders and Home and School

Science: Sorting Animals

BIG NEWS:

Picture Day Wednesday, Oct. 7

I'll get you the info as soon as I have it

Have a great weekend!

 

September Week 3

Time to get into the bee hives!  

I LOVE keeping bees!  

My hubby rarely wears a bee suit and never gets stung.  I do wear a bee suit and usually get stung anyway but not this year...lucky me!

  

 This week in K we really began routines in earnest!  

These kids are rocking this unusual year.

I am very lucky to be their teacher! AMAZING!

I gave the kiddos a tub of playdo for their bins at their tables.  We use playdo to create letters, numbers, one-to-one correspondence (make 5 balls for example), and just for fun! 

Look at all these Hh letters!

The k kids sorted the transformer bots into ABC order...just because!

We've had a lot of fun with Pete the Cat this week!  

Aren't these the sweetest?

We voted for our favorite Pete The Cat book and reread the winner! 

We have a new discovery table...apples!  

The kiddos made a apple store with some of the items.

Letter Ff day we had another experiment with a FIZZing chemical reaction!

And now for the week of Sept.28-Oct. 2:

Literacy: Letter Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

beginning sounds

Math: numbers 0-5

Theme: apples

Social Studies: Friends at School

Science: Animals Change and Grow

Big New:

Picture Day is Wednesday, October 7

September Week 2

This is how I relax!

How about you?

What do you do to ground yourself?

I'd love to hear from you...

 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

At this time I will include a few projects weekly for your viewing enjoyment!

(no room photos yet)

The extra exciting experiment on Ee day was making ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE!

We sorted M&Ms into color groups and counted and compared the numbers before eating!

Yummy!  What a fun Math lesson!

Of course with the beginning of the year we've done a lot of talk about 

RULES and GUIDELINES!

Bathroom use is a biggie!
 

We basically have just 3 rules in kindergarten:

1. Be Nice 

2. Be Ready

3. Be Safe

Everything else falls into these categories!  For real! Think of a rule.  It fits doesn't it!

Hope you enjoy the button project we made at choice time for you!

Our little Corduroy Bears are sooooo cute!

Everyday this week we ate a treat that began with the letter of the day...

Our favorite was BBBB Bus!  We created and made a bus out of graham crackers, Oreos, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch!  Delicous!

These cutie patooties were from our first week! 

 Chester the Racoon was our character we read about!

We also created these name mosaics!

And to make my teacher heart happy, a community member dropped this off for me!

How sweet!

And now for the week of September 22-25:

Theme:  Pete The Cat

Reading/ Language Arts:  Letters Ff,Gg,Hh  rhyming and beginning sounds

Math:  #s 0-5

Science:  How do animals move? 

Big News: 

No school for students on Monday,  September 21...Teacher Workshop

Picture day: Wednesday, October 7

September Week 1

Whooo Hoooo!

We made it through our first week of online and in-person learning!

The Lewiston Journal's reporter, Heather Buege, snapped this shot of us on our very first morning!

PRICELESS!  

Then come Friday at 4:00 pm, here were my thoughts: Haha!

 Please have fun exploring the rest of the tabs on this blog.

As soon as things settle down in the pandemic world, I will feel comfortable posting more photos of our day.

Thank you for a great first week!

I am loving getting to know your k kid! 

And now for the week of September 14-20:

Reading/Language Arts: Letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee

Rhyming

Math: Numbers 1-5

Social Studies: We learn from our Families

Science: Animals have body parts

Theme: Bears

BIG NEWS:

No school on Monday, September 21 

Teacher Workshop