Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Rebecca READ-A-LOT teaches us how to read!

Our classroom puppet friend, Rebecca READ-A-LOT, is sharing her secrets for successful reading with us!  She has a special bag that contains her "reading tools" and we now know her secrets!

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Rebecca's Reading Secrets:
First: Look at the pictures to see what the words might be.
Then: Get your "tracking finger" ready to point to the words as you read.
Next: Get your mouth ready to make sounds that go with the letters in the word.
Lastly: Stretch out the sounds to hear the word!

We can read!
Look for picture clues!
Way to use that "tracking finger"!
                                                         Reading is so fun!

Monday, September 24, 2012

Zero the Hero Comes Again!


Today is the 20th day of Kindergarten and we were excited to have Zero the Hero visit again!  This time, he gave us two zeros (froot loops) to eat!  We learned that two sets of ten make 20! 
We have had a busy 20 days of learning.  We have learned color words, four sight words and have had fun with rhyming words and letters of the alphabet.  In math we have been working on sorting objects into groups and this week we will be comparing amounts using the vocabulary words more and fewer.

Friday, September 21, 2012

FLY PIE FRIDAY!

Fridays are always especially fun at school! We love to celebrate our learning and great behavior with an extra special activity. Today we became frogs and ate FLY PIE!  Fanny Frog was a fun rhyming song that we learned as we reinforced rhyming words. At first, we were not so sure that we wanted to eat FLY PIE!  But we soon discovered that it was DELICIOUS!!
Creating our FANNY FROG hats!

Milk and Fly Powder(instant pudding) were ingredients for our PIE!

Of course we added flies(raisins)! Yum!
Almost ready!
Yummy Fly Pie!
Even Fanny Frog enjoyed some Fly Pie!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Rhyming Rocks with Fox in Socks!


We had fun with rhyming words today as we became fox in socks after reading the Dr. Seuss book, Fox in Socks! We were even able to have a Fox in Socks parade through our school with our fox headbands and crazy socks. Research shows that children who can understand about rhyming words have a head start in learning to read and, even more, to spell.  We think RHYMING ROCKS!




Monday, September 17, 2012

Carver Celebrates Constitution Day!


We celebrated Constitution Day today at Carver!  All children met at the flag pole to sing and celebrate our great country.  We love the USA!


Friday, September 14, 2012

Rainbow Day!

Today we finished up our color fun with Rainbow day!  We read a book about rainbows, created rainbow pops and even did a rainbow cookie experiment!


Mixing colors to create our own icing~

Experimenting with colors



 

                  
                  Perfect icing for our cookie
                   
Getting ready to enjoy our work!


Yum! Yum! Best cookie ever!


Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Lots of Learning Going On!


Hard at work searching for our sight words    I   and     am !   We used our "spy skills" along with detective glasses and "secret mission" music to help us!



This week we have focused on FRIENDS as we have learned about the "Golden Rule."  We have discovered that you should treat people how you want to be treated!  We have also worked on using BRAVE TALK when someone is not being friendly to us.  Our song, TWINKLE FRIENDS, is a fun song to sing with friends!