Ll is for Ladybugs and Learning Letters!

This week we finished up our study of the letter Ll with a lot of ladybug fun!  We read The Grouchy Ladybug and discussed good and not so good feelings.  Then we solved addition problems on a ladybug and created a flying ladybug for our "Ladybug Launch!"  We love learning letters because now we can read and write even more words!!

Learning in Kindergarten is so much FUN!

100 Days of Kindergarten!

Hip, Hip, Hooray!  We  celebrated 100 days of school today!

Today we celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten!  We are now 100 days smarter! We loved seeing some of the "old" people that visited our school today.  We also had fun discovering that 10 sets of 10 make 100. We sang and counted to 100, created 100 year old portraits of ourselves and ate a 100 day party mix!
Thanks to all of the parents that helped make our day so exciting by dressing your child as a 100 year old and/or sending a snack to share in our party mix!

A look at our centenarians!

 We loved sharing our collections of 100 things!

We sang songs and counted to 100 with 100 friends!

              We loved celebrating 100 days of school!

Nutrition means Eating Healthy!

 We discovered through our nutrition study  that some foods were better for us than others!  We learned that  bread and cereals give us energy, fruits and vegetables keep us healthy, meat gives us protein to build muscle and milk makes our bones and teeth strong! We also learned that we should only eat a little of the foods that have a lot of sugar and fat.

We were excited to taste our first vegetable from the garden!  Thank you, Mrs. Bingham, for showing us how delicious broccoli can be!

After learning about the dairy foods, we were excited to learn that we could make butter from whipping cream.

We had to put the whipping cream in a tightly closed container and shake.

We took turns shaking to the music!

We shook and shook that cream!

                                  Shaking to the music was pretty fun!

We never knew making butter could be so fun.

                                        We did it!  We really made butter!

             At first some were reluctant to try it, but soon found out our butter was delicious!

                               YUM! YUM! We have loved learning about NUTRITION!

Hilarious Hat Contest!

Today was our Hilarious Hat Contest for letter Hh!  We loved seeing all of the creative, fun, snazzy hats that our friends were wearing. Blue ribbons were awarded in all categories!

There were pink-a-licious and awesome color hats!

Creative hats made from paper and bowls!

Sight words hats, paper hats, puppy dog hats and money hats!

Pirate and super hero hats!

Even a polka dot cupcake hat!

                                        We loved hilarious hat day!

Learning about Space is OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Out of this World art project

We have had a super time exploring Space this week!  We were fascinated to learn many interesting facts about the solar system.  We had fun creating the solar system and making rockets by using our addition skills. Our most favorite activity had to be our TRIP to the MOON!  We moon walked, ate space food and discovered moon rocks!  We were amazed to learn  about the astronauts life in space without gravity! Enjoy our SPACE ADVENTURES through our pictures!

Ready for Blastoff!

Rocketships are ready!

Moon Walking

Creating  moon rocks!

Wow!  Moon rocks are so cool!

Read! Read! Read!

Your child was recently given the Developmental Reading Assessment 2nd Edition (DRA2).  Letters were sent home recently to inform you of your child's level.   Please know that we practice reading strategies each day but children are encouraged to read each night with a parent. The leveled baggie readers that are sent home in homework folders are a great tool for this. Remember to use picture clues, "word attack" (sounding out words) and finger tracking to promote better reading.We appreciate the support and effort you are making at home to make your child a better reader!  We have some terrific readers in our room!

Octopus Stew!

Learning Letter Oo has been so much fun!  Yummy, Yum, Yum!  Friday finally arrived and we were able to eat OCTOPUS STEW!  We had eagerly awaited the arrival of that "octopus" even though many were sure that they DID NOT want to eat Octopus Stew! The boys and girls were pleasantly surprised to see the octopus stew was made up of "hot dogs" and olives! Almost all loved octopus stew!

Learning the Octopus Dance!

Octopus Dance Party!

Yummy, Yum, Yum!