HaPpY St. PaTrIcKs DaY!!!!!!!

We had a very special guest visit our classroom a few nights while we were all at home....

Whoever this creature was... likes to leave messes!  So my students created leprechaun traps with their families to try and catch him....check out our trap pictures in a new post!

The following picture was one of our writing prompts.  The students had to draw four pictures of things that made them lucky.  They then had to write down what the pictures were if they had time.

Another writing prompt was "I feel lucky when..." along with making a leprechaun. 

 To accommodate students who don't celebrate Saint Patrick's Day completed the same writing prompt, but made their picture go along with what they wrote :)

I had a parent make these cute snacks for the class.  There was lucky charm chex mix in leprechaun hats, and the students had to eat the mix to find their golden treasure!

 

 Below was the bulletin board in the hallway with the clover writing prompts.  The rainbows surrounding the bulletin board were painted by students during science to talk about colors and mixing colors.  Students mixed red and yellow paint to make the orange paint; they mixed red and blue to make purple; and they mixed the yellow and blue paint to make green paint!  I had two other adults in the classroom to help me with this painting project, but the kiddos had a lot of fun!

Dr. Seuss Week

We had a great time celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday at the end of February/beginning of March!  Check out some of our fun activities below.

This activity was pinterest inspired and a great art activity combine with writing in which the students enjoyed.  The writing prompt is, "If Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to my house..." and there were a mixture of responses, but some of the most common were:

-they would clean my house.

-they would make a mess.

-they could clean my bedroom.

-they would break...

This was a fun rhyming activity.  I read the story Fox In Socks to the students and then gave each student a sock.  They had to identify the word on the sock and say it out loud.  Then the other students had to look at their socks and see if their word rhymed.  Each student was able to find their matching (rhyming word) sock!

The activity below was an engaging addition activity that went along with the story, One Fish Two Fish.  Students got a small handful of goldfish and had to write down how many yellow and orange fish that they had.  Once they did that they needed to add the two together.  After they wrote their addition problem correctly they were able to eat their YUMMY goldfish :)

A fun science activity was making GREEN FLUBBER!!!  Students got to mix a variety of ingredients and watch how they react with each other.  Below the two pictures is the recipe that we used!

Flubber Recipe 

In a large container combine:
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 cups white glue
Food coloring

In second, smaller container, combine:
1 1/3 cups warm water
3 tsp. Borax

* Mix ingredients in each container thoroughly.
* Pour contents of smaller container in to large container. (We used a plastic baggie)
* Gently lift and turn mixture until only about a tablespoon of liquid is left. FLUBBER will be sticky for a moment or two. Let excess liquid drip off then FLUBBER will be ready!
STRETCH IT! BOUNCE IT! ROLL IT!

Store in an airtight container for about three weeks of use!

Bulletin Boards

 This was the bulletin board I used at the beginning of the school year.  I took photos of the students on their first day of school and they glued them to a piece of paper.  Also on the piece of paper they used the foam letters to make their name.

 This was a school wide hand-print made banner that was displayed during our Veteran's Day Program.  All students and teachers K-5 participated in this activity.

This was the Thanksgiving bulletin board.  Students brought home a turkey feather and decorated it at home with their families!  It was fun to see all the different ideas :)

UpDaTeS--October

So, life has been moving too fast and I haven't updated my classroom blog in a long time.  I just wanted to upload some photos to share with everyone what we have been working on and learning this year in Kindergarten!!!

 This is our pumpkins that we made by cutting and identifying different shapes!!!

 In October we had fire safety week, and so the local fire department came to show us their brand new truck, all of their gear, and to share with us all the rules to help keep us safe!