A Few Reminders!!

Here are a few reminders about some important upcoming events:

1)      Spelling words have started. Each week your child will have five new spelling words to practice and learn. On Friday we will have a test over these five words. Tomorrow (11-30) is our first spelling test! *Please see side “Spelling” tab for more information.

 

2)      Field Trip money and permission slips (please remember to fill out BOTH sides) are due by December 4^th. It costs $8 for students to go and $10 for adults. If you are able, I would love for you to come along as a chaperone!

We are thankful for our Moms and Dads!

Each student wrote a letter to his/her parents explaining why they are thankful for them. Then they made turkeys by tracing their foot for the body and their hands for the feathers.

 

 

 

Election Week

All week we talked about voting. We made a voting box, voter registration cards, and ballots for everything we wanted to vote on.

We started off our Election Week voting on who we thought the next President will be. Here are our results:

 

For the rest of the week we read Duck for President, Grace for President, and My Teacher for President. At the end of the week each student picked their favorite candidate for president (Duck, Grace, or Ms. Farrer) and made a campaign poster for them to win.

On Friday we voted and here are the results:

 

I am honored my students want me as President, but I already have the best job in the world as their kindergarten teacher! 

 

 

50's Day

We had a blast celebrating our 50^th day of school. Here are some pictures of what went on during the day:

Our students got to dress up like they were students in the 50’s.

 

In small groups, we worked together to put some new 50’s words into ABC order.

 

We compared what students did in the 50’s to what we do as students today. Then we wrote a comparative sentence and made 50’s boys and girls to match!

 

 

At the end of the day, we got to go outside and eat pizza and a root beer float!

 

Chicka-Chicka Boom-Boom Completed Letter Exchange

We have our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Letter Exchange Map completed! All 26 letters are from around the United States, and one is even from Canada. The students loved getting mail each week and making guesses on which letter they thought we received. Each student got to pick a letter to take home now that our exchange is finished.   

Pumpkin Unit Activities

Here are a few pictures of the activities we did for our pumpkin unit!

 

We ordered our pumpkins from least to greatest!

 

We made five pumpkins sitting on a fence! For this activity I handed the students blank pieces of construction paper and simply showed them my example. They were to figure out on thier own what to cut, and where to paste it so that their picture looked like mine. They did a great job!

 

We made the life cycle of a pumpkin into a necklace!

 

 

 

 

Fantastic 50 Days of School

We have made it half-way to 100 days of school!

To celebrate all of our accomplishments so far, we are having a 50’s party!

 

Pumpkin Investigation

To end our extensive pumpkin unit, on Halloween we got to smash pumpkins! First, we observed how our pumpkins looked on the outside. Were they large, medium, or small pumpkins? Did they have a big or little stem? Then we predicted what we would see on the inside. Each student made a guess as to how many seeds we would find.

And then the fun began! Each student got multiple turns trying to break open their group’s pumpkin. We brainstormed different ways to break the pumpkin open, but quickly realized that the best way to get the job done was to throw the pumpkin on the ground with all of our might! Once the pumpkin was open, we got to get our hands dirty. Everyone got to feel the inside of the pumpkin.

 

As you can tell from the pictures below, we had a blast!

 

Pumpkin Patch 10-24-12

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped make our field trip to the pumpkin patch a success! We could not have done this without you. Your help is greatly appreciated by me, as well as all of the students. Everyone had a blast seeing all of the pumpkins and was even more excited when they found out that they got to take one home!

Here are some pictures of what we did at the pumpkin patch:

 

 

 

BMX Show 10-23-12

For our Red Ribbon Week, HSI invited a BMX show to our campus. We loved watching the neat tricks. They are so talented. It was a great afternoon watching and cheering for the talented BMX team.