What Have We Been Up To?

One of our centers this week was finding the beginning sounds in words.

Then we had to spin and color peppermints!

We wrote our letters to Santa this week!

We played a beginning sounds game on the smart board.

During math centers, we had to count on from ten and find how many fish each of the penguins caught.

Then we had to tally how many eggs each penguin laid.

Another math center was listening to our number cd and writing our numbers. We're getting very good at this!

We had to work together to put numbers in order from smallest to biggest.

We had to put a puzzle together by putting the numbers at the bottom in order.

They looked really cute when we were done!

Ever wonder how we do our calendar journals each morning?

First we all gather on the carpet with our calendar and calendar buddy.

Mrs. Glick pulls the calendar up on the smart board, and we fill it out together!

Finished product!

We work on over ten math skills daily, just in our calendar journals!

Reindeer Cam

 

http://reindeercam.com/

 

Check it out! You can watch Santa's reindeer at home!

We have fun checking on them every once and awhile at school.

Help!

We've been playing a lot of board games as part of our center time. Board games help promote patience, taking turns as well as a host of math and language skills.

I've been surprised to find that many kindergartners don't know how to play games such as Candy Land, Go Fish, Uno, etc.

I challenge you to play some of these games at home!!

Here's a great article about why board games are so important!

http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/the-benefits-of-board-games

Thanks for being a partner in your child's education!

 Lefse!

I am lucky to have a grandma that likes to help me!

She agreed to come in and teach my kindergartners how to make lefse! 

None of them knew what it was!

We had to sit back from the table, because the griddle gets VERY hot!

Like 500 degrees!

We smelled it cooking, and then we got to taste it!

We added a little cinnamon sugar!

It tasted good!

Of our 20 kindergartners, all of them liked it but 3!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

 Kindergarten First Thanksgiving

We read the story Stone Soup!

We each brought an ingredient for the soup!

In go the carrots!

Next comes the cabbage!

Stir it up!

We read two different versions of Stone Soup.

We made a human bar graph of which one was our favorite!

Then we made a Venn diagram of how the two stories were the same

and different.

We let our soup cook all morning.........

Then in the afternoon we had our families come to eat our soup with us!

Someone found the stone in his soup!

That means good luck for a year!

Lots of little pilgrims!

We decided we were thankful for many things, but families were #1!

Friends were #2 on our list!

The cutest pilgrims I've ever seen!