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Monday, April 30, 2012
Our Classroom's A Zoo!!
Last week our kiddos got to bring a zoo animal to school!
First.. we sorted our zoo animals into groups.
Land Animals...
and water animals.
Then we made a graph with our animals. We graphed them by species!
We had chameleons, turtles, bears, monkeys, foxes, dolphins, giraffes, frogs, zebras, wolves, and elephants!
Our conclusion after analyzing our data: Most students brought bears and monkeys.
At reading time, we read to our zoo animals!
Alligator Pie
Last Friday, in celebration of zoo animals, we made Alligator Pie!
Here is the poem we learned to go with it (ask your Kindergartener to recite it to you!):
Alligator Pie, Alligator Pie
If I don't get some...
I think I'm gonna cry!
Give away the green grass,
Give away the sky...
But don't give away my
Alligator Pie!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
PICTURES AND ZOO ANIMALS OH MY
TOMORROW IS PICTURE DAY! PLEASE SEND YOUR KINDERGARTENER TO SCHOOL DRESSED TO IMPRESS :)
Also, we will be graphing zoo animals tomorrow! Please allow your kiddo to bring their favorite stuffed animal (that is a zoo animal) to school for the day :)
Also, we will be graphing zoo animals tomorrow! Please allow your kiddo to bring their favorite stuffed animal (that is a zoo animal) to school for the day :)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Look At What We've Been Up To!!
I have been meaning to post some pictures from the units we have been doing! Here are some from different units we have done recently. I love looking at them and seeing the bright faces of all our little learners and I know you will too!
LAST WEEK WE GOT DOWN ON THE FARM! :)
We had so much fun with our farm unit! We did fun math and literacy activities centered around the farm animal theme and read lots of non-fiction material about farm animals. We learned that different farm animals give us different things.. like cows give us milk which we use to make butter, cheese, and ice cream! In celebration of cows everywhere, we listened to some country music and made butter in our classroom! We sat in a circle and passed around a jar of heavy cream that we shook in order to churn it into butter. It was so much fun and very tasty!
INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS OH MY!
Mr. Carl Harper from the University of Kentucky visited our classroom a couple weeks ago. He works in the Entomology Department at UK. He had some very interesting friends to share with us.. and all the kids got to take home goodies too!
LAST WEEK WE GOT DOWN ON THE FARM! :)
We had so much fun with our farm unit! We did fun math and literacy activities centered around the farm animal theme and read lots of non-fiction material about farm animals. We learned that different farm animals give us different things.. like cows give us milk which we use to make butter, cheese, and ice cream! In celebration of cows everywhere, we listened to some country music and made butter in our classroom! We sat in a circle and passed around a jar of heavy cream that we shook in order to churn it into butter. It was so much fun and very tasty!
We also read a book called Cook-a-Doodle-Doo. This story is very similar to the story of The Little Red Hen. However the main character in this book is a rooster who wants to make strawberry shortcake instead of a hen who wants to make bread. The children loved the story and had so much fun making their own strawberry shortcakes afterwards.. yum! Then for kid-writing, we started a how-to writing piece on How-To Make Strawberry Shortcake!
HERE IS THE BOOK WE READ TOGETHER:
FIRST YOU GET A SHORTCAKE....
NEXT, YOU PUT STRAWBERRIES ON TOP OF THE SHORTCAKE...
THEN, YOU PUT SOME WHIPPED CREAM ON TOP...
LAST, YOU EAT YOUR YUMMY STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!!
INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS OH MY!
Mr. Carl Harper from the University of Kentucky visited our classroom a couple weeks ago. He works in the Entomology Department at UK. He had some very interesting friends to share with us.. and all the kids got to take home goodies too!
Our assistant principal, Ms. Croom holding the Hissing Cockroach!
Abigail wasn't afraid of the Hissing Cockroach!
Alex and the Hissing Cockroach
Ellee and the Hissing Cockroach
Taylor holds the Hissing Cockroach and Ellee looks a little freaked out!
The Hissing Cockroach makes friends with Malachi!
Jackson and the Hissing Cockroach
Zion and the Hissing Cockroach
Mr. Carl Harper, Entomologist
YIKES!! JONATHAN LOOKS AT THE TARANTULA!
A Tarantula!
A Scorpion from Africa! Did you know that scorpions are Arachnids, like spiders?
Mr. Harper shows the class a Black Widow Spider (in a box!)
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