Wednesday, February 9

This week we celebrated our 100th day of school!  We had a blast on Monday doing many, many 100th day activities.  All the kindergarten students were able to go to the other kindergarten rooms and do activities such as 100 exercises, 100 pancake/sausage snack, 100 piece puzzle, 100 spotted dalmatian, 100 noodle picture, and 100 fruit loop necklace.  The kids had a great time being with some other friends and teachers in the morning.  In the afternoon, we made our snack mix of 100 snacks and also colored in a secret 100 on our hundreds chart.  What a great day!

On Tuesday, we started our center rotations.  This week, we will be talking about the words he and she.  Our centers include reading the room, listening to a dinosaur story and writing a response, writing and illustrating a sentence, a phonics activity, word work, adding another book to our book bin drawer, and letter centers.  While students go to their centers, I also meet with our reading groups.  Everyone is doing a great job.

On Wednesday, I had intervention training in the morning, so Mrs. Wanless came to guest teach in our classroom!!!  The children made their valentine mailboxes and began learning about dinosaurs.  They read about the T-Rex and started a nonfiction journal.  We will be learning about other dinosaurs and doing LOTS of fun activities over the next 2 weeks.  Students also brainstormed -ing words and made a book of some of the words they came up with.  We will continue working on a special valentine card this afternoon, and also continue to work in our math books on chapter 6!  We are learning/reviewing numbers 10-30.  This is a great thing to review at home to be sure your child is confident recognizing and writing these numbers!

Reminders:  If you would like, send in your valentines by Monday.  I had several people volunteer to send items/food in for Valentine's Day - Thank you so much!!!!

I am also in need of some extra conversation hearts and various shapes of noodles (wheels, spaghetti, macaroni, etc.) for a project that we will be doing.  If anyone has some at home or is able to donate some, we would appreciate it very much!

100 footsteps through the school

100 exercises

100 fruit loop necklaces

100 noodle artwork

100 piece puzzles

February 4th



Go Pack Go!!!!!!



Yesterday we learned about Groundhog's Day, even though we were a day late!  We did a fun math activity in the afternoon where we made a two-sided groundhog coin and graphed our results from dropping it.  We also took a look at our collections of 100 things.  We put some of our collections into a line to see how long 100 is.  We glued some into a "jar" to see how full the jar was with 100 things.  It was a lot of fun!

On Friday, we took a poll in our classroom of who we predict will win the Super Bowl.  We also made cheeseheads!!!  We searched for 100 numbers in our room and then put them in order.  We also made great pictures of what we will look like when we are 100 years old.  In the afternoon, we went to library and computer lab.  I checked out several Mo Willems books for our classroom which we will be reading.  I think our class will love these books!

Next week, we will be celebrating our 100th day of school, getting ready for Valentine's Day, and learning about dinosaurs.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Go Packers!!!!



How long are 100 cotton balls?





We compared weights of our 100 things using a balance.





"This is what 100 pieces of cereal looks like."



We had a "snowball" fight with 100 cotton balls!!!

"If I had 100 dollars, I would save it."

Jenna is putting her collection in a line to see how long it is.



100 year old self-portrait
"When I am 100 years old I will use a walker."



SUPER BOWL

We will be doing a few football activities tomorrow in preparation for the Super Bowl this weekend.  Your child is welcome to wear Packers (or Steelers :) )apparel to school tomorrow if you would like!

Go Pack!!!!!

February 1

This week, we are getting ready for the 100th day of school by doing lots of things with the number 100.  On Monday, we finished the sentence, "I could eat 100 _______."  Many people thought they would eat 100 Skittles!  We also learned two partner games: race to 100 and connect the dots.  We had a fun time playing each of these games throughout the day.  Our new word this week is and, so we read a chart and poem and found the word.  We also made a list of words with and in them.  Some of those words are Amanda, candy, hand, and band.  In the afternoon, we had an assembly to celebrate the work we have done for Operation Hallway.  We got to have a dance party in the gym!


On Tuesday, we finished the second sentence in our 100 book: "If I was 100 feet tall ____________."  We thought about ways we could help people if we were 100 feet tall and also problems that we might face, like where to sleep!  We also wrote about what we would do if Mrs. Skeels gave us $100.  Most of us said we would save it :)  In the afternoon, we colored in a 100 maze and compared some of our 100 collections on the balance.  We learned that different sets of 100 can be heavy or light and that even large things (like cotton balls) are sometimes lighter than small things (like conversation hearts). 


Tomorrow we will learn about Groundhog Day and do some different activities to go along with this fun day!  If we end up having a snow day, our weekly schedule will be pushed back a day and our 100th day of school will actually be next week on Monday.  Don't forget to send in both your 100 snack items and your 100 collection to be glued ASAP!!!



Stay safe in the snow!

Jackson's Name Pattern

Shane's Name Pattern

Kylie and Mason playing "Race to 100"



"If I had 100 dollars I would save it."



"If I was 100 feet tall I would help people pick apples that are way high."



The 100th Day of School

INFORMATION ABOUT THE 100th DAY OF SCHOOL:

       Our one hundredth day of school is coming up on Friday, February 4th.  We have many exciting activities planned to celebrate this day, but we need some help from you!

100 Snacks: We will be making a snack mix of 100 snack items together as a class.  We need you to send in a bag of exactly 100 snack items.  Some examples include m&m’s, pretzels, pieces of cereal, raisins, gummy bears, etc.  There is a 100 chart on the back of this note if you would like to use it to help count out the items. 

100 objects: We will be filling a jar with 100 objects.  We need you to send in a bag of 100 small objects that can be glued onto construction paper.  Some ideas include pieces of string, cotton balls, pieces of cereal, stickers, toothpicks, or anything else you can think of!  Please remember that the objects need to be small (around 1 inch or less) so that they can fit into the construction paper jar!   

**Please send 100 snacks and 100 objects to school by

Tuesday, February 1^st**

      

Donations: We will also be doing some fun centers in each classroom and need several people to volunteer to donate items.  Please return the bottom of this note as soon as possible if you are interested in buying items for our class!

Thank you for your help in celebrating our 100^th Day of School!

The Kindergarten Team

Friday, January 28

On Wednesday we made a layer book about different types of weather.  We have been talking about -an words all week and making different words like and, man, fan, sand.  Our class has had lots of fun finding these words in books!  We continue to rotate through our math centers this week.  The kids are having a great time - especially at the balloon toss and the toothpick building.


We became authors of books this week as well.  We have been talking about different things that authors do and different types of stories they write.  We started stories about things we know a lot about.  They are a lot of fun and our class enjoys working on them!  Writing stories at home is a great way to practice reading and writing, and to tie in the literacy skills we have worked on all year at school. 


Today we will be learning about Chinese New Year.  We will be making a lantern for Chinese New Year as well.  We will be illustrating a predictable sentence and writing a book page for our friend, Angelynna, whose last day is today :(  We will miss having her in our class!


Next week we will be celebrating Groundhog's Day and the 100th DAY OF SCHOOL!!!  We have many, many fun activities planned.  If you are interested in donating materials for our projects, please let me know as soon as possible.  I will also be sending out information about Valentine's Day next week.

A picture of most of our class :)

We compared two stories about the mitten using a Venn Diagram.



Our last page in our Jan Brett journal.

 I hope you all have a great weekend!

January 25

We have been busy since last week!  On Thursday we used the shaving cream paintings and the pictures that Mrs. Skeels took to make ourselves into ice skaters.  They turned out great!  We reviewed color words and did some writing in the afternoon.  On Friday, Mrs. Skeels was gone.  With our guest teacher we made and illustrated a predictable sentence and made a book for our book bin drawer called "Where are my mittens?"  





Ice Skating Pictures



Monday was an early release day.  Our new sight word is an.  We talked about the vowels a, e, i, o, and u and when to use the word a or an.  In our journals, we wrote sentences with the word an in them.  We went to different literacy centers to practice our sight words, writing, and reading.

 

On Tuesday, we wrote in our journals.  Everyone did an amazing job of using their ABC chart and writing sentences on their own!  We spent a lot of time making detailed drawings to go with our sentence, too!  Our literacy groups each had one job to do and then were able to choose centers around the room while Mrs. Skeels met with guided reading groups.  In the afternoon we did some fun math centers.  We had a great time!

Our 100th day of school is coming up soon.  Watch for the note coming home about the help we need from you!





"The cat comes in the house and barn." By Adyn





"I like to go to the zoo.  It is fun to see the zoo animals."  By Kyle



"I like to smell flowers.  I like flowers too." By McKenna





Sydney, Isabel, Ali, and Kyle build a village.



Keep the balloon in the air!

Make a necklace pattern!

Make a pattern with stickers!

Build a structure with clay and toothpicks!