Our Morning Before Christmas Break and Gingerbread Houses!

Thank you to the parents who made our special breakfast happen!! It was a lot of fun!  We also made some gifts to thank everyone who helps us in our school!  The elves did a little gift delivering and singing!

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Gingerbread Journals

We have been comparing many gingerbread stories this week!  We enjoyed the various settings, characters, and refrains!  We recorded the different endings in our journals! What gingerbread stories do you have at home?

Messy Math

We wrote numbers on the table and we erased them with shaving cream! It was FUN!

Blanket the Table~Cool Way to Review Learning

Today before reading Hairy Bear, we activated prior knowledge about real bears and teddy bears.  Each table was assigned a teddy bear or a real bear.  Then they wrote or drew facts on sticky notes and covered the table.  They had 5 minutes to see how many facts they could write or draw.  After 5 minutes, we organized our facts in a Venn Diagram.

Blanket the Table can be played at home to review skills and learning.  All you need are some sticky notes or scrap paper and start covering the table with... Math Facts, Sight Words, Word Family Words, Objects that begin with _(letter)_, Categories (food groups, transportation, animals, sports, shapes, things with wheels, games that use a ball, colors).  GET THE WHOLE FAMILY INVOLVED!!!

We Are Thankful!!

Hip, Hip Hooray for the 50th Day!

We celebrated today by playing Race to 50th with our Book Buddies, danced to Barbara Ann, played subtraction bowling, and enjoyed root beer floats!

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Flashlight Fun!!

Adding: Partners of Numbers

What We Learned From Stellaluna

Firefighter Labels

We have been working on adding labels to our writing by using phonetic spelling (writing the sounds we hear in words).  Here are some labels on the firefighters.

Migration and Hibernation

Miss Jamie, an instructor from Fallen Timbers, came in to teach us about animals that migrate, hibernate, and stay active in the winter.  In the pictures, you will see us using actions to predict whether an animal hibernates, migrates, or stays active in the winter.  The hawk was a tricky one!

More from our Week!

We carved our pumpkin and then became scientists.  We predicted what will happen if we combine three ingredients, baking soda, vinegar, and green food coloring.  There definitely was a chemical reaction!

A Peak At Our Busy Week...so far!

We completed math and reading MAP testing and enjoyed some pumpkin fun!  Alex, our high school volunteer, helped us scoop out the pulp and seeds in our pumpkin.  We counted the seeds by 10's and ended up with 390 seeds!  During choice time, in the games and puzzles center, many of us enjoyed playing gourd tic-tac-toe.  In the art center, students created 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate, which is a song we learned in music.

We also created a beautiful hand print painting that you will soon see as a fundraiser for our school!  You will be able to order this art in many different forms, such as t-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads, quilt squares, key chains, necklaces, and much more!

Hillside Apple Orchard Field Trip

We documented our learning by labeling some pictures from our trip!

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Our Favorite Seasons

We Built Mr. Potato Head!!!

Our whole class worked as a team cleaning up, being kind, helping others, and following directions. Each time we did that we added a piece to Mr. Potato Head.  When he was complete, we earned extra recess and an ice cream treat.   That celebration happened yesterday and here are some pictures!  Way to go, Kindergartners!

Birthday Cakes

We created a book about birthday cakes to go with the story The Birthday Cake by Joy Cowley.

We came up with many creative describing words for birthday cakes.

Fast Fingers

First Weeks of Kindergarten!

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