Odyssey of the Mind (OM): Kindergarten Edition!

We have a few students from our class that have been planning and prepping skits for OM competition.  These 5 year olds came up with a script, built the props, and wrote a song and dance number!  The theme was "prehistoric art festival."  They stole the show!!! We are all so proud of their performance at school last week.  Enjoy the pictures!  

Waiting patiently to perform!

The performance!  Mrs. Fonnesbeck is an excellent coach!

 

Their song:

 

 

Their dance!  So GROOVY!

Thank you to the wonderful parents for support!!

Robert Munsch Author Study

During March is Reading Month, our kindergarten class will be doing an author's study on Robert Munsch! Today, we sat down with Mrs. Guy's class and read a couple stories over the ELMO.  We also looked at his web page and listened to Robert Munsch read a few of his stories! You can check it out at home, too.

  His books are perfect for talking about characters and settings.  The characters he uses are based on real children he meets!  Enjoy his website!

Dr. Seuss' Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading several of his books and writing about thing 1 and thing 2 visiting our houses! We especially enjoyed making our elephant ears and pretending we were Horton, from Horton Hears a Who! 

Gravity and forces!

100's Day and Valentine's Day

What a busy busy day in kindergarten! We started our morning with celebrating 100 days of school.  We read a story about 100 pigs, then our class discovered that 100 pigs were hiding in our room! We used a color-coded number grid to help us put all the pigs in number order.  What a task!

We also dimmed the lights and practiced writing numbers in the air with our new wands "100 Days Brigter!"

We also enjoyed our Valentine's Day party!  A huge thank you to Amy Fonnesbeck for planning and prepping a perfect memory for the little ones, and all the parents who came to celebrate with us.  Enjoy the photos!

Forces in Motion

We learned about three forces!

Gravity, Push and Pull!

Then we went outside and used our sleds to help us understand how gravity, pushing and pulling work! We also had a great time sledding!