Happy Valentines Day!

We were so excited that Valentines Day finally arrived It was a fun-filled, sweet-filled, heart-filled day!

 We were so excited to finally open those Valentine bags!

 We found lots of love AND candy inside!

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It was nice to have visitors and helpers at our party!

 Then it was time for our yummy treat-filled party!

  The afternoon was full of jump, jump, jumping as we participated in Jump Rope for Heart!

                           Happy Valentines Day!

Patterns, Patterns, Everywhere!

We have found that patterns are everywhere and can be made with just about anything! We have used manipulatives, art materials, people, rhythm movements, colors and words to create patterns! We have also become very good at labeling patterns.  Just ask us what an AABB, ABAB, AAB or BBA pattern is! Observing and creating patterns teaches kindergartners important skills they will later use in math.  Studying patterns teaches children how to make predictions and how to be better problem-solvers.Problem solving is key in being able to do all other aspects of mathematics!

How about an AAAABBB pattern?

Or an AAABBB?

An ABC pattern?

Creating patterns is so much fun!

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!