A look into another world...

We were so excited this week to begin our new Insect unit. We read books, watched videos, and went on insect hunts to learn more about them.   The students made a book called Every Insect.  We practiced reading and singing it in class!  Ask us to sing it and our "Insect Body" song!

We also worked on opinion writing and wrote if we like insects or if we don't like insects.  We drew our own and made them from egg cartons with a head, thorax, abdomen, six legs, and antennas!

We had fun using our ipads to practice writing sentences with sight words and words beginning with /k/.  We read them and recorded our voices on the ipads to play them back.

 

One of our favorite math games is "Rock Around the Clock".  A student writes down a time to the hour or half hour and the class dances while moving the hands on their clocks to the correct time. When the music stops, the students show their clocks!

Spring is Here!

We learned about the wonderful things Spring brings!  The students learned that oviparous animals and some household items can come from eggs.

We did egg-speriments with hard boiled and raw eggs and learned about the life cycle of a chicken.  We were invited to visit Mrs. Fiss' fourth grade class and their chickens.  The students enjoyed watching the chickens and seeing their eggs!

Trains, Trains, and Leprechauns??

This week we learned about how trains transport people and goods!  We completed the final page in our Transportation Books!  Please have your child read it to you!  The students also worked on "Trains Go!" by reading and writing their sight words and illustrating the countryside and city.  This was a fun project that also reviews prepositions (around, through).

The students made outstanding leprechaun traps but unfortunately those tricky leprechauns got away!  We had a feeling they would try to trick us and visit BEFORE St. Patrick's Day and we were right!  Let us know if you catch one over the weekend!

Transportation

This week we continued our Transportation Unit and learned more about different types of land transportation.  We read If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen and created our own "dream" cars! The students used their creativity and imaginations to illustrate and write about what their ideal cars would be able to do.

Our Kindergarteners painted and colored different types of land, water, and air transportation!  They also began their transportation presentations!

Community Helpers in Room 18