Just a gentle reminder that the kindergarten kids are required to wear snow pants and boots out for recess until the snow and mud have dried up on the playground. The supervisors will make that decision sometime in April and I'll pass that news happily on to you as soon as possible.
In the meantime, you are welcome to leave snow pants and boots at school. Just let me know..
Who knew so many of my teacher friends have never been to IKEA?!
Ms. Manly, here you go!
The whole bunch of us also went to Chanhassen Dinner Theater to see Mama Mia! The musical will be there for much of the summer, if you get a chance, you should go... it was delightful!
Monday's new morning challenges were:
Rainbow sentences...
Raindrop words..
Rainbow Subtraction...
Our newist discovery table is full of "soil" (black beans), pots, flowers, seed packets, and gardening tools. What fun! Thank you for the donations of black beans, we'll be accepting more through next week.
We celebrated another 6 year old!
Monday was cloud day. We read many books about clouds and then painted these fabulous pictures of what a cloud might look like.
Tuesday's centers included:
Making it rain! While reviewing evaporation, condensation, and precipitation we used shaving cream clouds and blue paint to show part of the process.
Ms.Walrich's table was star word review...
We sorted pictures of Earth's materials... land, air, water
It was "raining cats and dogs " for read the room... counting by 2s was the skill
Ms. Harden guided a prediction and graphing experiment with "Huff and Puff". The kids took turns predicting how many breaths it would take and then blowing objects across the table.
What windy fun!
Wednesday many kiddos created these whirligigs to play with the wind!
This excellent student brought English muffins and Easter eggs for our letter Ee snack!
We've been learning about the water cycle...
And created one to take home!
Here's another lovely morning message just waiting for the k kids to fill in...
Thursday's new morning challenges included:
What's the Weather words...
What's the Weather words...
Weather sentences...
Using the greater than, less than, equal sign...
We've been painting for our "Rain Poems"
This cloud game looks like so much fun! Let's hope we get to it soon!
The homemade light table has been a favorite lately. Come take a peek at how simple it was to build...
Thursday's centers included:
Making and eating Thunder Cake!
Land forms...
Read the room for proper nouns
including days if the week and months of the year...
Number bonds for 10...
Writing our star words in shaving cream clouds...
Good reads:
This makes my heart so happy!
The planting table is sooo much fun!
We finished another 100 piece puzzle this week!
#teamwork
On Friday morning we created our own journal pages to go with the book WINDBLOWN.
These are great!
Here's another 6 year old!
Thank you to everyone we came to math night!
Here's some photos from
our "escape room"
The planting table is sooo much fun!
#teamwork
These are great!
Here's another 6 year old!
Thank you to everyone we came to math night!
Here's some photos from
our "escape room"
Hope to you around next year for Reading night!
And now for the week of April 1-4:
Language Arts: letter Hh
short e word families
adjectives review
Star Words: he, no, away, by, must, there
Math: money
Science: The Earth's water
Theme: Spring and Mud
BIG NEWS:
Wednesday, April 3 Spring Picture Day
Thursday morning: Fools 5 Presentation
Friday, April 5 No School Teachers’ Workshop
Thursday, April 11 EARLY DISMISSAL 1:00
Friday-Monday, April 19-22
Spring Break NO SCHOOL
