Winter Program-Dec. 17

We had our first Winter Program in the High School Auditorium. We had fun singing songs with the other kindergarten classes. We sang 5 songs together and one song on our own. We made reindeer headbands to wear while we sang our songs. The songs we sang together were The Greeting Song, Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Must Be Santa and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Our class sang Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer. We enjoyed having lots of special guests come and watch us sing.

50th Day of School

On Friday, November 29 we celebrated our 50th day of school with a 50s Day! We dressed up 50s style. We read 50 words/letters. We wrote 50 words/letters. We counted 50 items in the classroom. We made 50 tally marks. We made a 50s pattern. We had a 50s sock hop. We danced to 50s music. We danced with hula hoops. We had rootbeer floats. We had a wonderful day celebrating 50 days of school!

Colors

We had a lot of fun with our special color days. We sang songs about colors, we read books about colors, and we made color books. We mixed colors. We practiced writing and reading color words. We dressed in a special color each day. After learning about all of the colors, we ended with a favorite color day. We made a graph of our favorite colors that day. Purple was the winner.

Big Green Monster Day was one of our favorite color days. We read the story "Go Away Big Green Monster". We reread it using sentences strips and then we retold it using flannel board kit. Then we made our own Big Green Monster headbands.

Nursery Rhyme Party 10-29-10

We dressed at as Nursery Rhyme characters on Friday afternoon. We had a parade to show off our costumes. We went to the preschool rooms, the office, the Galaxy rooms and finished upstairs in 4th grade. After the parade, we each recited our nursery rhyme. Then the party began. We had a cookie snack. We made Hey Diddle, Diddle books. We made star wands for "Twinkle Twinkle LIttle Star". We made thumb print and dot painting spiders for "Itsy Bitsy Spider." We had a "Little Miss Muffet" obstacle course. We played the egg and spoon race game for "Humpty Dumpty." We had a cotton ball drop for "Baa Baa Black Sheep". We had many parent volunteers and helpers too! Thank You! We had a fun party!

Oct. 26, 2010

Today was Red Day! We read the book, "Red is Best". We made our own red books that we can read ourselves. We read the story "Sophie got Angry...really, really Angry." Then we brainstormed ways that we can calm ourselves down if we are angry. We made pictures. On one side we wrote the word "Mad" in red and then drew something that made us mad. ON the back, we wrote in blue or green the words "Not Mad" and we drew something that calms us down. We had our hearing tested with the nurse. Our new letter was Gg. We had indoor recess. In art, we finished painting our sunflowers. In Writer's Workshop, we read a book called "When I Get Bigger." Then we wrote about what we want to do when we get a little bit bigger. We learned how to spell the word "see".

Oct. 25, 2010

We started our colors and shapes unit today. We read the book called "My Crayons Talk". Then we drew a picture showing what our crayons would say. We learned about the square today. We made a puppet and went on a square hunt. We also made patterns and pictures with squares. We went to gym today. Our new letter was Uu. We wrote about our long weekend in Writer's workshop. We read "Mouse Flies a Kite" in shared reading. We started to read our first chapter book. We read chapter one, The Real Hole, in the book "Two Times The Fun" by Beverly Cleary.

Fall Art Stations-Dot Painting Fall Trees

We used dot painters to create fall trees.