We are Ready for Constitution Day!

Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. We will observe Constitution Day, here at Carver, by gathering at the flagpole for the pledge and a patriotic song.

 Today we wrote our own "Carver Constitution"!

Don't forget to wear RED, WHITE and BLUE on Tuesday, Sept. 17th!

Rainbow Day!

We have had great fun reviewing colors and learning to read color words!  It has been fun to sing about colors and see our friends all dressed in the color of the day!  Today was RAINBOW day and it was a colorful-fantastic day!  We began our day with a rainbow song and video.  We were amazed to actually see why we can find a rainbow in the sky.  We learned that sunlight(or white light) is made up of all of the colors.  When that light goes through a raindrop (or prism) it breaks up that sunlight and makes a rainbow! WOW!

We made "pretend" rainbow pops.  We had to get the colors in the right rainbow order! 

Red is always at the top and purple is always at the bottom of the rainbow.

Then we were able to make our very own COLOR cookie to eat.  We had to listen and follow directions to get it just right!

First we measured two scoops of  "magic" powder.

 Then we added a spoonful of water....

and stirred....

and stirred, until it was just right!

 Then we added food coloring to make it any color of the rainbow we wanted.

 We could mix colors like blue and red to make purple!

Next we stirred ......

  and stirred some more until it was ready!

 Then we iced our cookie.....

and iced.....

 until it was just perfect!

 Finally it was time to eat it!

Yummy!  This is good!

 Delicious....

....down to the last drop!

Friends make Kindergarten extra FUN!

We have been in school for 12 days now!  We have had  a lot of fun and learning time, but we would all have to agree having fun with our friends is hard to beat!

As we talked about friendship this week, we learned the GOLDEN RULE: Treat others the way you want to be treated! We had fun reading and sharing stories about friends! We are working hard at making good choices and treating others the way we want to be treated!

 We made friendship bracelets to give to a special friend!

Sharing with a friend is cool!

 Lots of bracelets, lots of friends

 Hard at work

 Good friends

Sweet friends

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be!

Zero the Hero!

Zero the Hero...He's SOOO Cool!  Zero the Hero...He comes to schoooool!! Zero the Hero...He takes his place!! So NOOO other number can take his space!!! For the 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th... day of school !!

Today was our tenth day of school and ZERO the HERO  came to save the day!

Zero the Hero passed out a treat to each of us!  A zero to eat!

WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHEN ZERO THE HERO COMES AGAIN!

Yellow and Blue Make GREEN!

We read  Little Blue and Little Yellow  today.  It is a great story about friendship and mixing colors.  We are bringing home a bag of play-dough  to retell the story to our parents.  We can't wait to tell you the fun story and show you how the colors mix together!

We can't wait to show our parents Little Blue and Little Yellow!

We had fun discovering that blue and yellow really do make green!  

We even mixed blue and yellow(food coloring) in our water bottles to make green frog water!

Learning in Kindergarten is so much fun!

The Word Bug

We read the book The Alphabet Tree today and discovered that words are made from letters! In the story, the WORD BUG showed how words are made from joining groups of letters together.  The Word Bug brought two new words for us:  I and am.  Be sure to have your child read to you tonight!  They are very excited to bring home a "book" tonight for homework.

 The Word Bug brought us our new "sight words": I and am

The Word Bug made us excited about READING!

 We also learned to read Y-E-L-L-O-W! Yellow is Curious George's favorite color!

Do you know why?

REMEMBER TO WEAR BLUE TOMORROW!

Also remember to have your child read their "I Am" book to you tonight!

Color Fun!

Today we began our study of colors!  We will be having fun with colors this week as we sing about them, read about them, use them and maybe even "taste" some! Since many of the children can already identify the 8 basic colors, children will also have the opportunity to learn to read color words!

Look who wore RED today!

Our classroom fish friend RED always wears RED!

We love to visit RED and see what he is up to!

We began our rainbow name by writing in R-E-D!

 We colored the RED bird in our very own BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR book!

Don't forget to wear YELLOW tomorrow!