Showing posts with label Farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farm. Show all posts

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Down on the Farm!

This week our unit was about the farm.  We enjoyed reading many wonderful books about the different farm animals and the foods and resources we get from farms.  We may have a few future farmers in our class!

Muddy farm scenes 



Some of our favorite farm books




Everyone enjoyed these farm themed hidden picture books.



One of their favorite activities, the students described the farm animal and gave clues about it for their friends to guess.



Chicken feet!!








Duck-duck-goose on a beautiful spring day!




Popsicles to cool down!







The students have learned so much in Kindergarten, they have really learned how to work in groups, take turns and learn cooperatively.  One way we practice this is to play board games.  They love Candyland and Chutes and Ladders!






Last week our class took turns leading on school on the intercom in the pledge.  We needed one more day to make sure everyone got a turn, Cayden and Hunter did a great job leading on school!

Student of the Week: Brody

Coming Up...
Language Arts: Review nouns, verbs, antonyms
Math: 3D Shapes
Thematic Unit: Zoo

May 3 - Field Day - Students will need to wear their class T-shirt.  Parents are welcome to attend.
Kindergarten Field Day Schedule
8:30 - 9:42 - Playground Rotations
9:42 - 10:15 - Snack/Bathroom
10:15 - 12:00 - Field Day Stations
12:00 - 12:45 - Lunch

12:45 - 3:00 - Homeroom

May 24 - Awards Day - We will be having awards day in our classroom on the last day of school, Friday, May 24.  Each student will be recognized and all students will receive an award.  Awards day will begin promptly at 8:30 AM.  Parents and family are strongly encouraged to attend.  Dismissal on the last day of school will officially be at 11:30 AM, but you may begin your summer vacation as soon as awards day is over!













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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Down on the Farm!

This week was busy and full of tons of learning!  

We began to learn about nouns.  The students picked up on this right away!

Everyone drew a "person, place or thing" to go into our "Noun Town".  This was a fun activity, the students included pictures of super heroes, animals, Target, baseball and football fields, and many other great things! 



 They made noun play-doh shapes. 



 Everyone's favorite noun activity, labeling!  The students sorted cards and found all the nouns.  Then they labeled one another with the nouns.  Fun, fun!







 We have also been discussing three-dimensional shapes.  The students have learned their attributes and used what they have learned to guess the 3D shapes by using only their sense of touch in this activity. 



 3D Shape Show-and-Tell
Cylinders

Cubes 

 Spheres

 More spheres

 Cones

 And cones...

 Rectangular Prisms

 Counting and recording groups of ten


 The thematic unit this week was "farm" - The students loved this unit!  
Making muddy farm pictures.



 "I Spy" Farm books

 Cows



 Farm puzzle

 Every farm has dirt and worms!  They sure are yummy!





 One of their favorite farm activities, the students wore a farm animal on the back of their shirt.  They showed their friends and their friends gave them clues to help them guess their animal.  



 Chicken feet!




 We read many great books about life of the farm. 



 It was so pretty outside that we enjoy some story time outdoors!


 We learned that the animals on the farm provide us with many resources and food.  One of the foods we get from cows is milk.  And one of our favorite desserts comes from milk, ICE CREAM!

 Everyone worked together to make "ice cream in a bag". 

 Shake, shake, shake!

 Keep shaking!

 Yum! 



 Cody's family shared some of their farm animals with us.  This was definitely the highlight of the week!! Cody was an excellent presenter and told us all about his friends.

 Sheep

 She has very soft wool. 

Cody's goat loved talking to us!




 Dax, the horse, was beautiful and very friendly. 



 Thank you to The Smith family for sharing your animals with us!

 Student of the Week: Systre'n

Coming Up...
Language Arts/Phonics: Verbs
Math: 3D Shapes
Thematic Unit: Zoo

Thursday, April 26 - Bring a zoo pet to school!  Bring a stuffed animal from home and we will let you share it with your classmates and do some activities with your zoo friends.

Friday, April 27 - Kindergarten Musical, Stone Soup.  Family/Friends performance at 9:45 AM, $2.00 admission, in the PLE gym.  Students should come to school on Friday in costume, they will have two performances that morning.  An early performance for the 1st and 2nd graders and a second performance at 9:45 AM for family and friends.

May 4 - Field Day - Wear your class T-shirts

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