I Know an Old Lady...

Before Thanksgiving break, the class began to practice retelling stories in a group and to a partner. I always kick-off this learning by having the students retell a familiar story we've read a few times and one that has repetitive language.

There's no better story to start them with than...I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Pie! 

This story is funny, catchy, and a perfect finish to our Thanksgiving learning during November. 

Once we've read the story a few times, the students color and cut out their own Old Lady, we add a clear plastic baggie to her stomach, and then we add her meal in one food at a time! The students have SO much fun retelling the story to each other and making sure they get the sequencing correct.

 

 

Make sure to have your student retell you the story I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Pie, it's a ton of fun!

Where Are All The Turkeys?

A HUGE thank you to all of the families who took the time to create a disguised turkey for our classroom! These are some of the best and most creative turkeys I've ever seen! We had a dog, Elsa, princesses, police officers, superheros, and Golden State Warriors!

Here are all of the amazing turkeys from our classroom this year!

All of our AWESOME turkeys!

 

It's Been FAR Too Long!

It has been FAR too long since I've posted about the happenings in our classroom! October was such a busy, busy month for all of us. Let me recap the activities, learning and fun that has been happening. I also created a slideshow of all our photos from October for you to take a look through!

October brought learning about leaves, pumpkins, bats and season changes.

To begin the month, we watched the leaves on the trees change color and begin to fall to the ground. In science, we talked about the season changing to fall and how that changes our weather, the temperature (because weather and temperature aren't the same thing!), and how the animals and plants in our environment change, too. We then created our own Leaf Creatures after reading the book, Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert.

We then moved to pumpkins and talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We created our own pumpkins that, as you pulled out the ribbon from the inside, showed the many steps of a pumpkin's life from being a seed that gets planted to an orange pumpkin ready for picking.

To make our pumpkin learning fun, because what's better than fun?, we read the book Spookly the Square Pumpkin. In this book, a pumpkin, Spookly, saves the day with his square shape during a terrible storm. To tie in math and literacy, we created our own pumpkin patch with all different colors, shapes and sizes!

At the end of the month, we looked at bats, what we knew about bats, and then what we learned about bats. Bats are an animal that hibernates through the winter, which has begun our discovery and learning about animal that hibernate and those that migrate to tie in with our weather and season study in science.

I hope you made it through to the end of this post - sorry for so much writing, I try NEVER to have this much before a photo! Thanks for sticking with me and I promise to post about our thankful Thanksgiving learning soon!





October Classroom Activities 2016 by Slidely Slideshow

Apples, Apples, Apples!

'Tis the season for apples!!!! Last week, we learned a lot about apples - how we got so many apple trees here in the United States, how apple trees start from trees and end up giving us apples, and having a little fun with Ten Apples Up On Top! Below are some of the fun activities we did in the classroom!

Johnny Appleseed, American Folk Legend, made and appearance on his birthday, September 26! We read a book about him and watched this really funny video about him. The kids learned about Johnny and how important he was to our country!

We also began learning a bit about poetry with our Apples poem and learned that apples can be red, yellow or green, but definitely NOT blue! YUCK! Learning our color words is an important part to the beginning of kindergarten. We will be focusing on reading and identifying these color words for a long time to come!

To cap off our Apple Week, we read Ten Apples Up On Top! by Theo LeSieg. The kids had to trace their numbers from 1-10, color their apples red, green or yellow, and then put the apples in numerical order. 

Number tracing and coloring in the lines are great fine motor activities you can do at home!

Cutting is a great fine motor activity, too!

This activity is fun, BUT also very important. We use a lot of skills during this activity including find motor skills for the tracing, coloring, and cutting, and then using our math skills to remember our number order from 1-10. 

Ten Apples Up On Top!

Ten Apples Up On Top! is a fun book, if you've never read it before, here's a reading of the book for you to watch with your student!

Welcome to Kindergarten, South School Families!

Hello!

I am so excited to start the school year with your student (and your family!) this year! I was so happy to see so many of you at Back to School Night on Wednesday.

As promised, I've been able to upload my past blog posts to this new blog. If you have any questions about what types of posts I normally include, please take a few minutes to browse through past posts here and ask any questions that pop up!

I am hoping to get our first blog post up by the end of next week! Stay tuned and be sure to add your email address to the sign up on the right hand side of the blog!

Have a great Friday!
Mrs. I