Penguins

Penguins were the hot topic this week in Kindergarten! We loved researching penguins and learning new facts!

Check out the link below to watch the penguins at SeaWorld Orlando! We had a blast observing them all week!

Penguin Cam

We learned about the penguins’ important features and labeled the Emperor Penguin!

Practicing sequencing, we used the terms “first, next and last”
to explain the penguin life cycle.

In our writing journals, we worked on informational writing and
wrote facts that we learned about penguins!

To integrate math, we made these awesome penguins to practice combinations of 5!

Penguin relay races! Keep those eggs safe!

What Do You Think??

“Do” and “you” were our two new sight words this week. We had a “snowball” fight after writing down a question: “Do you like/ have?” After throwing the “snowballs” for awhile, each student picked one up and answered the question: I do like/have or I do not like/have. It was a fun introduction to opinion writing as well!

Snowball fight!

We read The Mitten, a new class favorite winter story! As we were introduced to many new characters, we practiced retelling the story as a class and also with our own mittens!
Our class compared and contrasted The Mitten with another Jan Brett story, The Hat.  There was one character who was featured in both stories, Hedgie the hedgehog! Check out these adorable hedgehogs! To learn more about both these stories, ask your child to “retell” both of them to you using their mittens and storyboards!

All of these animals fit in our mitten!

Practicing combinations to 5!

I love all how different and AWESOME their Hedgies turned out!

“Animals don’t wear clothes!"

Retelling The Mitten

Check out Leah’s storyboard!
It tells the beginning, middle and end of the story, The Hat.

In our new journals, we chose our favorite story and wrote why we liked it! They had different opinions and wrote why they liked the story.

Noah liked The Hat because all the animals run away from the girl.

As one of our Daily 4 centers, we made word families and built words that rhyme!

New Year, new weather!

Happy New Year! We jumped right back into our Kindergarten groove by reviewing all of the letters and sight words we learned in 2015.  As we start this new year, we wrote resolutions about what we want to learn and do!

Arielle wants to learn to do a double somersault!

Alia wants to eat more vegetables!

Joshua will eat more potatoes!

To kick off our new unit on weather, we first learned about our four seasons. It finally feels like winter and we loved experiencing some exciting weather this week!

We read several narrative and informational books about the seasons and weather, but our favorite was The Jacket I Wear in the Snow.  The book uses adjectives to describe different types of winter clothing. Using our pictures from our snow globes, the students worked on a descriptive writing piece for our upcoming Winter Art Gallery.  The used adjectives to describe their own winter clothes!

A familiar story, Brown Bear, Brown Bear was rewritten for our winter theme. The students worked on Snowman, Snowman and practiced tracking words, reading sight words, and reading adjectives (color words).

Every morning we do a calendar lesson along with recording the weather for the day. The students loved making their own Weather Wheels to use at home!