Color Week #1--Orange and Green

We have finished Color Week #1 with Orange and Green.  It's so fun to see all the kids in the classroom and on the playground wearing the same colors!

The kids look great in green!

  

Kolton is circling the work green.

Gracie found the word green too.

Jeiden was so excited.

Samuel is concentrating while circling "green."

Alex was concentrating hard.

The kids are so happy in orange.

Yes, really, I am taking another picture!  Look at those smiles.

Josie and Hannah are doing "write the room" for literacy stations and 

are at the apple table writing down words.

Maddy, Jacob and Kernan are doing "write the room" and are writing the kids' names.

Kolton is doing "write the room" and is writing Jacob's name down.

Why do we do "write the room?"  Well it's fun to move around the room and 

the kids get to practice 1:1 correspondence and practice their handwriting.  It's a win-win situation.

The kids LOVE "write the room" as a station and so do I.

Open Play 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. with Kinders

We have open play 2-3 times a week, usually from 2:00-2:30.  The kids are free to explore the classroom, use the play kitchen area, the blocks, the toys, any sensory activities that are made available and observe any animals we may have for science.

We have an apple sensory container, full of split peas, pom poms, cups, tweezers, etc. for the kids to explore.

 Evan, Garrett, and Miri had fun exploring.

We also incorporate some science exploration during this time.  

Right now we are observing our snails…next are worms.

Today the kids got to pick up the snails.  Abigail loved her snail.  

She actually loved all the snails and had a blast touching them.

Giovanni thought his snail was cool but slimy.

Hannah wasn't too sure.

Artist in Residence--Making "Blueberries"

Today we had our first session of Artist in Residence led by Sharon King.  The kids learned how to take three colors of clay and mix them to create an awesome shade of blue.  They learned how to take one big ball of clay, break it into two, then five, then 10 balls of clay.  They added a hole to each blueberry where the stem would have been and added a leaf or two or three depending how much they divided the green clay.  They had a blast and were good listeners.  Yes!

Directions on how to make the blueberry clay.

These are the balls of clay the kids got to mix together.  

They had a blast mixing the colors.  

It wasn't as easy as you'd think.

Cody and Nikolas are concentrating on mixing the clay.

Garrett is focusing on his clay.

Hannah is almost done mixing.

The kids are showing Mrs. King that they have some cool blueberry clay.

They are so excited!

Giovanni loves his clay.

Abigail and Lillian are mixing and mashing their clay.

The blueberries will be stored in egg cartons to dry out and harden.  

They will go home at a later time.  

We have more projects to create and will send everything home together.

Thank you to our parent volunteers Mr. Malik and Mrs. Penselin for helping out.

iPads--Day 1

Today we used the iPads for the first time. We went over an iPad boot camp to learn about the iPads, how to handle them, safe use, consequences for not using the iPad safely. We also used a hand writing program called "Letterschool."  The app teaches the kids the correct direction of letter formation. In January we will use our handwriting book to further practice handwriting. 

Hannah really enjoyed using the iPad. 

Kernan was a happy camper on the iPad. 

Color Days--Red, Yellow, and Blue

Monday was "Red Day."  I got a picture of the kids dancing to a "Go Noodle" song.  We use "Go Noodle" for daily brain breaks and stretches. We dance to fun songs or we do some relaxing yoga. The kids love it. 

Tuesday was "Yellow day." The kids were sitting so nicely for carpet time. Look at those kinder faces. So cute!

Wednesday was "Blue Day."  We read and sang the poem "Blue." 

The kids found the word "blue" on their own. 

We will take turns using the SMART Board. The kids love it so far. 

Week 2--Sept 15

Apple Week

What a busy and fun week. We worked on a lot of apple activities which included tasting different types of apples, making apple sauce and painting paper plates to make them look like apples.

The kids loved the red apples the most.  The yellow ones came in second and the green ones came in last.

Kolton, Evan, Samuel and Cody had seconds and thirds of the applesauce that we made in the crockpot. Most kids loved it, some not so much.

Poetry Composition Notebooks

We also worked in our poetry composition notebooks and illustrated some fun nursery rhymes. Some kids even copied some of the titles down in their notebooks.  We learned about Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.  Ask your kids if they remember some of the words. We will continue to sing/chant them next week. 

Everyone is hard at work illustrating the nursery rhymes.

Gabby did a great job with her illustration.

Snails

We also got our snails for our science unit this week.  We have been observing them on our tables.  They are pretty slimy and leave a trail of slime all over. They also like to eat carrots and apples.

Giovanni, Garrett, Abigail and Inga really enjoyed watching the snails.

Yuck!  Slimy!

Hello there!

We also did a lot of reading to self, work work, math activities such as sorting and comparing.  No pics of those activities, but I will get you some soon.