Week 2 Pete the Cat and Brown Bear

Before we begin our kindergarten blog,

here are a few pics of last weekend's 22 mile Superior Hiking Trail backpacking adventure...

 As long as I see these little signs, I know we are not lost!

The scenery was magnificent!

Starting out...

 oh, what is this new horror?

 Preventative...not hurting (too bad!)

Snacks...meals were MREs.

Oh, goodness!  This was a bear print!

 almost to the end...

and my camera died, so not too many other pics.

You can find me on facebook to share

 in the other crazy weekends my family has!

So I made it out of the woods alive and not too banged up ready to start our week...

Well, Week #2 is just a lovely as I had hoped!

We began our Math series.

Most of the lessons are on the smartboard,

How cool is that?

We've also been learning our Alphafriends' names on the smartboard.

You can find this video here:

Click here for ALPHAFRIENDS

Here we are making our Monday project:

Pete the Cat!

 All Finished!

As Pete says..."It's all GOOD!"

We love digging for agates!

I brought some beauties home from our recent North Shore adventure!

Every Day, Mrs. Sauers plays games or reviews with us!
Here we are reviewing the tricky letters bdpq...

This is us hard at work sorting and classifying in Math...

On Tuesday we had our first go at 
CENTERS!
We rotate to 4 stations with 4 different skills!
My  table was Warm Fuzzy numeral review... 

Miss S helped out!

Mrs. Benke helped with Comfy Kitty letter matching...

Mrs. Sauers table was Pete the Cat color word playdo writing!

We had new Morning Challenges on Wednesday.
The green team put Brown Bear cards in numeric order...

The yellow table sorted shapes...

and the red team sorted objects by color...

More independent shape/color/size sorting during our Math time...

One of my favorite times of the day...BOOK TIME!

Yessirree...we are reading now!

We also sorted animals into real/imaginary groups...

We also had a nice Science lesson on
 ANIMALS HAVE BODY PARTS

Then we painted a BIG COLORFUL bear to go with Brown Bear and our science topic...

On Thursday we cut and pasted our bears!

Thursday's Centers included:
Painting lower case letters...

Spin and Match AlphaFriends...

Brown Bear color words...

and a brain break table...playdo!

This week we also had 3 safety drills:
Fire, Storm, and ALICE procedures for unsafe situations.
Mrs. Sauers is playing race to 10 button game!

 Good Reads...

We also met Ms. Manly and Ms. Kay for our very first LIBRARY visit!
Please keep the library books in the nice bag provided. Return both by Friday of the next week.
Thanks and Happy Reading!

This week in K:
Reading: Letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, and Ee  plus Rhyming
Math: Sorting and Classifying
Theme: finish Brown Bear begin APPLES!
Science: How do animals move?
Social Studies: We learn at school
BIG NEWS...
Our first field trip is Friday rain or shine!
Volunteers: be looking for an update on Wednesday concerning details.
Also next week in Homecoming week.

Here are our Homecoming Dress Up Days for

Sept 21-25

Monday— Class Color

Kindergarten= Blue

Tuesday— Farmer Day 

Wednesday— Pajama Day 

Thursday— America Day, Red, white and blue or flags on clothing

Friday— Lewiston – Altura Spirit Day (Wear red or any Lewiston-Altura shirts)

We will be heading to the parade after our Apple

Orchard trip. 

You are welcome to join us. Please check in with your child’s teacher.