Walk-a-thon

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

 

 

Thank you, Mrs. VanDyke, for all your hard work putting this event together!  The kids had so much fun!!

We Cooked Applesauce!

Today was filled with excitement as we made applesauce!

 

We split the class into two groups.  One group made applesauce first, the other did apple math explorations!

 

Cooking:

  We used our five senses to cook!  The cinnamon smell was a favorite!

 

Apple Math Explorations:

Using a balance pan to find out how many bears it takes to weigh the same as an apple

Finding out how many cubes fit around their apple

 

Prediction:  Does an apple sink or float

Yum! Yum! Yum!

 

Book making during writing time

Today was our first day organizing our writing into books!  First, we added "reread my writing" to our anchor chart.  

Then, I modeled how to reread our pages and group together all the pages with the same topic. In the picture above, I modeled how to find all the playground pages and group them together.  Then the class helped me find all of pages that were about the lake and group them together.  After conferencing with a teacher, the students used staplers to keep their books together.  

We are off to a great start! We are looking forward to many more days of making books!

Community Time!

Each Friday, the kindergarten friends get together for a fun activity.  This week, we worked on strengthening our small hand muscles-- our fine motor skills!

We broke off into 3 groups, and each group went with a different teacher.  Next week, the groups will switch teachers and do a different activity!  Enjoy the pictures from our morning!

 Small Legos: the little Legos require kids to use their finger muscles, not wrist and grip, to build.

Feed Your Face: students squeezed the cheeks of their tennis ball, and used tweezers to feed their tennis ball erasers

Painting: these paint brushes required a pencil grip! We will continue to practice "swim like a froggy" to get our thumb in the correct position

Rolling Playdoh Balls: rolling and placing the apple-scented Playdoh on the trees strengthens our finger and hand muscles

Putting Worms in the Bucket: students used clips to pick up pipe cleaner pieces and put them in a small container.

It was a fun morning!

Math workshop!

Dominoe Parking lot!

Calculator counting!

Sorting pennies!

Lego exploration!

Bundling tens!