Friday, December 20, 2013

Good morning, families!  I hope that everyone is staying safe in these icy conditions.  I am bummed that we are missing our fun activities that we had planned for today, but we will do them on the Monday that students return to school (including opening all our candy canes from the stockings!).  

I have a couple of videos to share with you.  The first one is my first attempt at making an imovie.  This is from the day that Santa visited kindergarten!

The second video is of the holiday sing yesterday.  A special thanks to Kevin Schmitz who recorded and posted it!

I hope you all have a very safe and happy holiday with your friends  and families.  If I don't see you over break, I will see you all next year in 2014!!!

Santa visit:

http://youtu.be/VN7UMJyylvY

Holiday Sing Playlist (all grades): 

***Kindergarten is video #7!***

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKhozAC08gJtk_vDLkB0tDG613p2ZTSMz

Polar Express Day

Here are a few pictures from all the great activities today, Polar Express Day!!!  Thanks to Miss K for taking the pictures and thank you to the families that donated materials to make this day possible!

Kwanzaa

This month, we will be learning about several different holidays that different people celebrate around the world.  Yesterday and today we discussed Kwanzaa.  Ask your child to sing you the Kwanzaa song and to tell you a little about this African-American holiday!

In these pictures, our class is making beads with salt dough.

Today, we strung the beads and made necklaces!

Math Centers

These are a few pictures from today's math centers!

Jake and Bailey are playing a dice-rolling game.  They roll 2 dice, add the numbers, and remove the marker with the answer.  Once all the markers are removed, they win!

These kids are practicing writing numbers with shaving cream.

This was a fun game that we learned to play on the Smartboard.  You spin the spinner and then move that number of spaces on the game board.  The computer is your opponent.  Whoever lands exactly on the end is the winner!  This was a fun and exciting game for our class!

This is Logan choosing a game on the iPad.  There are several math games to choose from.  A favorite today was a game where the children had to get their character to a certain place on the map using a path of arrows that they designed.  It was really fun!

December 3

Last week and the week before, we talked a lot about families, being thankful, and the first Thanksgiving.  I hope you had a chance to take a look at the Thanksgiving book your child brought home!  On Wednesday at play time, we talked about what it would be like to be Pilgrims with no electricity and few toys.  The class spent play time pretending to be pilgrims.  We played in the dark with wooden toys.  They made a "fire" to cook their food, and they pretended to go hunting for food to bring back for everyone to share.  our class continues to enjoy playing "pilgrims" this week too!

Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving unit:

Here are some Pilgrims playing in the dark with wooden blocks and small stones.

This was a little project that Kaitlyn made for me during our Pilgrim play time.  She didn't think they had glue, so she did not glue the pieces together!!!  How cool!

This is our Thankful Turkey...filled with feathers of all the things that our class is thankful for - friends, family, toys, food, and more!

               This is a chart we made about all the different things that families do together.

This is a poster we made about what a family is made of!