Week 26

March in like a lion and out like a lamb.  This saying may be true when it comes to the weather but not when it comes to what we are doing in our class.  We are roaring ahead with some great science, math, and language arts concepts all the way to the end of the month!

In our Kindergarten Hallway Huddle on Friday we spotlighted 1 child from each class that was a great example of habit 5 ~ Seek First to Understand Then to be Understood.  Miguelangel Lopez was chosen from our class!  Miguel is a really great example of someone who asks lots of question to get understanding and clarification in class and when interacting with the children in our class.  Congratulations Miguel!

Look at who passed off a level of Raz Kids last week!

Skylar

Hazel

 

Happy Birthday

Dr. Seuss!

This week was Dr. Seuss’ birthday and we celebrated several of the wonderful stories he has written!  

On Monday we read Green Eggs and Ham.  

Then we sampled some green eggs and ham.  Some liked it and some did not!

On Tuesday we read One Fish, Two Fish, 

Red Fish, Blue Fish

On Wednesday we read Hop on Pop and

  Thursday we read The Cat in The Hat and made US in a cat hat and drew The Cat in the Hat

On Friday we took all of the word families ( _at, _op, ed, _am) we learned about in these books and created a chart of rhyming words.

 Finally, wearing our Reading Hats we read lots and lots of Dr. Seuss books.  

What a great day, what a great week!

We learned that plants start with a seed. 

Little seeds lie fast asleep,

In a row, in a row.

Wake up, wake up,

Calls the sun.

Wake up now and grow.

It was fun acting it out.  We were the seeds covered with soil (scarves) and Skylar was the sun that woke us up.

 

We learned that plants need: sun, water, soil, and clean air to grow.

We dissected a lima bean and observed the different parts that will grow into a plant.  Then we planted Groovy Guy Grass & Groovy Girl Grass.  Starting this week we will learn about the parts of a plant and why plants are so important to us.  It is a WIN – WIN for both plant and human beings!  Keep watching the blog to see how our living grass will grow and change over the next few weeks.

We had a SEED TASTING PARTY and sampled quite a variety of seeds and roots last week.  Some we really liked and some not so much.  We learned that seeds come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors.  They also grow in many different ways.  When we were done we wrote about our most favorite and least favorite seeds.

Speaking of living things growing and changing you should see what our meal worms are doing.  They have begun to shed their skin and go into their pupa stage.  We are watching every day to see what they will become when they emerge.  Stay tuned…

Thank you for turning in your child’s lunch request and permission slip.  I still have a several children that have not paid $2.00 for the train ride.  I need to have this by Wednesday of this week.  Please pay it to one of the secretaries in the front office.

Look for the ZOO note in your in your child’s homework folder on Monday.

Last Monday we started out in 2^nd place because so many of you brought pennies for our can!  WAHOO!!! But, because we were in 2^nd throughout the week we became the recipient of lots of silver coins and dollar bills.  We are now approximately $40.00 in the hole.  Although that is not good for us it is good for the fund raiser!  Keep sending those pennies for our can and silver coins and bills for other class cans.

Monday, March 12^th ~ Field Trip to the ZOO

Thursday, March 15^th ~ Minimum Day

Friday, March 16^th ~ NO SCHOOL