April Fools Day

This morning I told the kids that I was rewarding them for the awesome jobs they have done this year. I brought them "Brown Es" (Brownies). 

Needless to say, they were not very happy with me until they got the actual brownies at the end of the day.

Children Around the World Research Projects

I am very impressed with the hard work and effort the Kinders put into their reports! They did wonderful with telling the whole class about their country and the research they did. The countries we had were Italy, Ireland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, Russia, France, and Denmark.

St. Patrick's Day!

This week, we learned about St. Patrick's Day and its history. We watched a video that talked about St. Patrick and his life and also about the current day celebrations in the United States. We graphed Lucky Charms for math and we even got to make leprechauns with our Fourth Grade Buddies!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' Birthday with reading lots of books and doing several activities and crafts. We made One Fish, Two Fish math bowls, made Lorax mustaches, and made Dr. Seuss hats with the AT word family. The kids enjoyed reading all the Dr. Seuss books and thanks to Kaitlynn for bringing in and sharing her collection with us!

February Activities

February was pretty eventful with Valentine's day and President's Day. For Valentine's day, we made love monsters and I love you to pieces hearts! For President's day we did a writing project where we wrote about if we were president. We also learned about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.

Addition with Dominos

This week, we have been learning addition equations using dominos. The kids were partnered up and had to write equations using the dots on the dominos. Before we began this, we talked about what equations consisted of and I modeled the process of creating equations in front of the whole class. I then partnered them up and gave them their supplies and set them loose. They did great!

We are 100 days smarter!

We have a very active 100th day of school. We did numerous activities involving the number 100. Leading up to today, we created fruit loop necklaces and hundreds day hats. During the day we wrote all the numbers from 1-100, we saw how many times we could write our name in 100 seconds, we created pictures of us at 100 years old, we did a writing piece about what we could not do at the beginning of the year and what we can now do after 100 days and we also counted to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's.  Many of the kinders dressed up as if they were 100 years old including myself. Check out our pictures.

Happy Birthday Kansas!

The kinders have learned a lot about our state symbols and they were excited to share the crafts and learning experience with their family members.

Tuesday, all three Kindergarten classes went through a rotation from class to class to create a Kansas symbol. In Mrs. Bowman's room, the kids made the State of Kansas with graham crackers, frosting and candy corn. In Mrs. Ropp's room, the kids made a box turtle with a bowl and tissue paper and in my room, the kids made honeybees with toilet paper tubes. At the end, all 60 kinders sang songs that they had worked hard on learning.

Preparing for Kansas Day!

With Kansas Day quickly approaching, we have been busy learning about the different symbols. We have learned about sunflowers, Jayhawks, buffalos and the state flag. We have also been joining all three Kinder classes to learn songs to sing around our "campfire" during our Kansas Birthday Celebration (Tuesday, Jan. 9th 2:15pm-3:30pm). The kids have been working hard and we hope that you can come celebrate Kansas Day with us!  Here are some photos of the things we have been working on.

Polar Express and Winter Party

I was excited for a snow day but bummed that we missed our Winter Party. Today we had our rescheduled party and the kids had a blast. We began by watching a read aloud of the Polar Express. This kids enjoyed "hot chocolate" chocolate milk and apple juice.We then went back to our room where there was centers set up around the room for them to participate in. Center one was decorating a gingerbread house, center two was putting peanut butter on a cardboard gingerbread man cut out and dipping it in bird seed to hang outside for the birds. Center three was snack (awesome snowman made out of cheese and crackers, gingerbread cookies and smoothies) and the fourth center was a snowman target where the kids threw velcro balls at it and won prizes if they stuck. 

Enjoy the photos that I took!