Monday, February 28th

Our new sight word this week is at and we will be reading many of Dr. Seuss's books!  This morning we read Green Eggs and Ham.  We talked about Dr. Seuss's books having lots of rhyming, many sight words, and silly characters.  In our Dr. Seuss journal, we drew a picture from the story and wrote a sentence to go with it.  We also checked if the story had rhyming, sight words, and silly characters, which Green Eggs and Ham had!  Later in the morning, we tasted 5 types of green foods (broccoli, celery, olives, cucumbers, and limes) and checked whether or not we liked them.  We continued to practice skip counting in math and reviewed patterns with a Dr. Seuss activity.  In the afternoon, we went to music during our specials block.  Mrs. Casaz came to our classroom for the first time today.  She will be spending time with us every afternoon to work on reading and writing with part of the class while Mrs. Skeels works on reading and writing with a small group of our classmates.


Tomorrow we will be making our March calendar and doing a fish bowl math activity.  Our new classmate, Peter will also be starting tomorrow!!!!!


Reminder: Field Trip money for next week's trip to Whitewater is due by Friday. The cost is $9.55.

A sample of from our Dr. Seuss Journal: "Thank you, thank you, Sam I am.  I do like green eggs and ham!"

Making -at words

A poem that we wrote as a class using -at words for rhyming

green food taste-testing

Sour Limes!!!!

More Sour Limes!!!!

Wednesday, February 23

We started our week on Tuesday by discussing Presidents' Day and learning about the United States' first president, George Washington.  Students made a picture of Washington and wrote facts about his life in a journal.  We read a Let's Find Out magazine about Washington and saw a picture of his teeth!  We also discussed the similarities and differences of life during the time of George Washington and in the present.  In the afternoon, we began chapter 7 in our math series.  We practiced counting by 10s and 5s to 100.  Then, we made a number line with hand prints to help us practice counting by 5s. 

On Wednesday, we learned about the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.  We made a picture of him with his stovepipe hat and wrote  more facts in our journals.  In the afternoon, we made a picture of his log cabin.  We also started a book about American symbols.

Tomorrow is Pajama Day!  In the morning, we will be learning about President Obama.  We will make pictures of him and write in our journal again.  We will also have time to finish our book about American symbols.  After specials in the afternoon, we will be watching The Land Before Time with other classes as a closing to our dinosaur unit.  We will be discussing fiction and nonfiction as we learn about different dinosaurs from the movie. 

Reminders:  Tomorrow is Pajama Day!  Book Orders are due tomorrow!  No School Friday.  Multiage/Single Grade request forms are due on Monday. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful 3-day weekend!

"They won the battle.  He was born in 1732. He liked to ride horses."

He built 3 log cabins.  He has a beard.  He has a top hat."

A page from our "Let's Find Out" magazine about George Washington

Abe Lincoln

George Washingtons



Posters about the dinosaurs we learned about



Pajama Day

Pajama Day on Thursday!

We will be having our second pajama day of the year on Thursday, February 24^th.  We will be watching The Land Before Time with other kindergarten classes as a closing to our dinosaur unit and to compare fiction and nonfiction.   Your child is welcome to wear pajamas on Thursday, but please be sure to send regular shoes for him/her to wear through the school day. 

Thanks!

Book Orders

Your child will be bringing home a SeeSaw magazine from Scholastic.  I like to send out orders a few times a year because they are a nice way to build your personal library for a reasonable amount of money.  Some books in this month's magazine are as cheap as 1 or 2 dollars.  If your family would like to order books, please return your order and a check payable to Scholastic to school by Thursday.  I will put the orders in, and the books usually arrive in about a week. 

Friday, February 18th

We are finishing up our unit on dinosaurs.  Today we discussed the Brontosaurus and other Sauropods.  Your child will be bringing home the nonfiction book that we have made.  Please take some time to read it with him/her!  We also discussed living and extinct reptiles and the characteristics of reptiles.  Each student took a survey of our class's current favorite dinosaur!


REMINDERS:  Monday will be an early release day with conferences in the afternoon and evening.  Next week Friday there will be no school.


PREFERENCE SHEETS: Your preference sheets for multiage or single grade classrooms for your child next year are due soon.  Please turn in your sheet or let me know if you need another one.  If you live in the Yahara boundaries, you do not need to turn in a sheet.


Have a wonderful weekend!

Wednesday, February 16



Saying Thanks for the Valentines

On Monday, we celebrated Valentine's Day!  In the morning, we did some math activities using candy hearts: graphing, sorting, and measuring.  We finished our valentine book and took it home for someone special.  We hope you enjoyed reading it!  We spent time opening valentines from our teachers and classmates.  It was wonderful to see the interactions as students opened their cards and thanked their friends!  We did one dinosaur activity as well using cookies and toothpicks.  We pretended to be paleontologists excavating fossils.  It was a lot of fun!

Thanks, Jackson!





Candy Heart Math



On Tuesday, we continued with our dinosaur unit.  We did a math estimation activity with fruit snacks and made our own fossils using coffee grounds, salt, and flour.  We are just waiting for them to dry and then they will be coming home.  The books that we are reading about dinosaurs are very interesting and full of facts!  We are making our own nonfiction dinosaur book about 5 types of dinosaurs.  This will be coming home later this week, so be sure to help your child read it and talk about the things we have learned at school.



Noodle Skeletons



Today, we learned about skeletons.  We learned that scientists use skeletons to learn about animals that are extinct.  We also talked about different bones that animals and people have (skull, backbone, ribs, legs, knees, etc.).  Our class made dinosaur skeletons using different types of noodles.  They are wonderful and we will be displaying them in our own kindergarten "museum" outside our classroom!

Other dinosaur activities that we are doing this week include finishing our dinosaur fact book, taking a survey, making a class graph, making a little book, and measuring dinosaur tails.  This has been a great unit!  Next week we will be learning about different U.S. presidents.





Making Valentines for our Fourth Grade Buddies





Opening Valentines





Measuring Dinosaur Bones



Drawing a Dinosaur

A Graph of Our Class's Favorite Dinosaurs



Making Dinosaur Fossils



Adyn Excavates Chocolate Chips

Chocolate Chip Excavation

Friday, February 11

Yesterday we went to our second literacy centers and learned about the triceratops.  We wrote in our dinosaur journal about some of the facts we learned!  In the afternoon, we continued through our math book and reviewed numbers 1-30 with our number tiles.  We also set up a dental office in our dramatic play center!  Our class is having a fantastic time waiting in the waiting room, taking appointments, checking teeth, and writing after-visit summaries!  It is fun for me to hear the conversations that they have as "dentists" and "patients."


Today, we had an early release day.  We made valentine bees that turned out great!  Our class also made some conversation hearts to put on our valentine bulletin board.  We wrote another page in our valentine book as well.  We will finish it up and send it home on Monday!  We have had a great week, I just hope that next week is a little warmer so we can get outside for recess! 


Have a great weekend and send in your valentines on Monday!

Valentine Bees

The new room favorite - A Dentist Office

Sydney in the waiting room

Isabel explains how to better brush your teeth

Dr. Marcus