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.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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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