October Week 2

I hope you've been able  to get out and enjoy our gorgeous weather with your family!

Here's what I do to reset, relax, and unwind although I did get blisters from this 4.5 mile paddle... half of it was UP the swiftly flowing Trempeleau River! 

The kids earned a popcorn party on Thursday for winning the ABC game!

We watched an Arthur video and ate popcorn and drank juice!

Here are a few of our new stations:

Leaf Discovery Table:

Pumpkin Station:

and a super fun POLKA DOT SOUP station!

The Family Projects are looking amazing!

We've been doing a lot of journaling focusing on beginning sounds.

This one was LEAF MAN (or animal or object)  LOVE IT!

We created these lovely autumn tree paintings using BIOCOLOR and balloons!  

We also made the cutie-patootie OWLS!  I just love a handprint project!

Of course it's fun to get all sciencey as we fill in our Can Have Are chart!

We really were artsy this week!  We also painted these lovely tissue paper leaves...

And here's more writing for THE LEAVES ARE FALLING DOWN!

Our night time Nn s really turned out NICE!

OH This looks like fun!

We painted monsters for letter Mm day after we read go away Big Green Monster! 

During choice time some of the kiddos really worked hard on this very large ABC puzzle!

We also began our first actual lesson in our reading series.

We begin by looking at the difference between letters, words, and sentences.

Great job, kiddos!

Our fire safety unit wrapped up with these super cute fire engines!

Friday science was fun as we practiced being BIOLOGISTS~we sorted animals into categories!

And now for the week of October 12-14:

Reading Language Arts:  Letters Qq, Rr, Ss

Beginning Sounds and Rhyming 

Math:  comparing numbers 0 to 5

Theme: pumpkins and squirrels

Social Studies:  Rules for home and school

Science:  none (short week) 

BIG NEWS:  

No School Thursday and Friday, October 15-16... MEA

No School for students on Monday,  October 19 Workshop day for teachers

 

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!