We celebrated Thanksgiving with the other kindergarten classess before our Thanksgiving break. Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this a great success!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
PIRATES!
Ahoy there you land lovers! Pirates have invaded our class. I'm sure you are wondering what pirates have to do with kindergarten! Well...more than you know!
Mr. Nicaise shared with us his favorite children's book How I became a Pirate by Melinda Long. She also write other pirate books like Pirates don't change diapers. He brought in a display board that showed many different books that she had written. Kindergartners are very smart and know ALL about authors and illustrators.
Mr. Nicaise talked to us about the "Pirate Code." This is a set of rules that pirates live by. We worked together to write our own Pirate Code and reviewed the rules in our classroom and school.
We learned that each pirate ship has their own flag that represents who they are. So, we each chose something to put on our flag and we also added all the letters we have learned.
We read many books about pirates, some where fiction (make believe) and some were non-fiction, these were true pirate stories!
On Friday, we all dressed up like pirates (including Mr. Nicaise) we had eye patches, bandanas, hats and even a hook for a hand. Then, we went on a treasure hunt. We had to use the map to find the treasure. We had to remember our directions (left, right, above, behind, etc.), we counted how many paces to each landmark, and at the end...the treasure was ours!
Mr. Nicaise shared with us his favorite children's book How I became a Pirate by Melinda Long. She also write other pirate books like Pirates don't change diapers. He brought in a display board that showed many different books that she had written. Kindergartners are very smart and know ALL about authors and illustrators.
Mr. Nicaise talked to us about the "Pirate Code." This is a set of rules that pirates live by. We worked together to write our own Pirate Code and reviewed the rules in our classroom and school.
We learned that each pirate ship has their own flag that represents who they are. So, we each chose something to put on our flag and we also added all the letters we have learned.
We read many books about pirates, some where fiction (make believe) and some were non-fiction, these were true pirate stories!
On Friday, we all dressed up like pirates (including Mr. Nicaise) we had eye patches, bandanas, hats and even a hook for a hand. Then, we went on a treasure hunt. We had to use the map to find the treasure. We had to remember our directions (left, right, above, behind, etc.), we counted how many paces to each landmark, and at the end...the treasure was ours!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Bat Cave
We've been working hard learning lots of letters and sounds. This week we started putting those letters and sounds together to make words.
This week we worked on -at family words. We made a long list of -at family words that included 'bat, mat, sat, cat, rat, scat, flat, etc.'
We wrote our -at words on 'bats' and put them in our 'bat cave.'
This week we also learned about bats.
Many of us thought that all bats were vampires, but we found out that most bats eat bugs or fruit. And no bats turn into vampires. Bats also sleep during the day and fly around at night.
This week we worked on -at family words. We made a long list of -at family words that included 'bat, mat, sat, cat, rat, scat, flat, etc.'
We wrote our -at words on 'bats' and put them in our 'bat cave.'
This week we also learned about bats.
Many of us thought that all bats were vampires, but we found out that most bats eat bugs or fruit. And no bats turn into vampires. Bats also sleep during the day and fly around at night.
Pumpkins
It has definitely felt like fall in Mrs. Newman's kindergarten this week. We have been learning all about pumpkins.
We read LOTS of books about pumpkins. Some were fiction and told us made up stories, others were non-fiction and told us about real pumpkins and how they grow. We also watched a video about giant pumpkins from Oregon.
We made mobiles that show the life cycle of pumpkins.
On Thursday we made predictions about what we thought the inside of a pumpkin might look like. Then we opened up our pumpkins and cleaned them out. There was a lot of goo and seeds!
When we got them all cleaned out and we cleaned up our desks, we drew a picture of what our pumpkins really looked like inside and we compared our prediction to what we observed.
In the afternoon Mrs. Newman cooked the seeds we clean out of the pumpkins. We could smell them cooking and when they were cooled we ate them. Not very many of us liked it. We would have enjoyed a pumpkin pie more! :)
We read LOTS of books about pumpkins. Some were fiction and told us made up stories, others were non-fiction and told us about real pumpkins and how they grow. We also watched a video about giant pumpkins from Oregon.
We made mobiles that show the life cycle of pumpkins.
On Thursday we made predictions about what we thought the inside of a pumpkin might look like. Then we opened up our pumpkins and cleaned them out. There was a lot of goo and seeds!
When we got them all cleaned out and we cleaned up our desks, we drew a picture of what our pumpkins really looked like inside and we compared our prediction to what we observed.
In the afternoon Mrs. Newman cooked the seeds we clean out of the pumpkins. We could smell them cooking and when they were cooled we ate them. Not very many of us liked it. We would have enjoyed a pumpkin pie more! :)
A for Apple
"An apple a day, keeps the doctor away." It also helps us learn in Kindergarten. We spent a week with a classroom full of apples!
We began our week talking about things we already knew about apples. We make a list that included what color apples can be, where apples grow, and what things you can make from apples.
We sorted real apples by color. Then we made a tally chart to show how many apples we had. When we finished our tally chart, we put our real apples on a graph to show how many of each apple we had.
We used apples in science to experiment with sink and float. We made predictions about what we thought would happen. Even though apples are heavy, we found out they all float.
Some other fun things we did with apples were, making patterns, using pattern blocks to make apples, and reading LOTS of apples books.
We finished our apple week with using our five senses to find out about the different apples we had worked with all week. Our favorite part was tasting all those delicious apples!
Enjoy the pictures of our week!
We began our week talking about things we already knew about apples. We make a list that included what color apples can be, where apples grow, and what things you can make from apples.
We sorted real apples by color. Then we made a tally chart to show how many apples we had. When we finished our tally chart, we put our real apples on a graph to show how many of each apple we had.
We used apples in science to experiment with sink and float. We made predictions about what we thought would happen. Even though apples are heavy, we found out they all float.
Some other fun things we did with apples were, making patterns, using pattern blocks to make apples, and reading LOTS of apples books.
We finished our apple week with using our five senses to find out about the different apples we had worked with all week. Our favorite part was tasting all those delicious apples!
Enjoy the pictures of our week!
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