Friday, February 24, 2012

Letter V Week

Letter V Week
Vegetables, Vipers, Vehicles and Volcanos!


Our literacy center featured the book, Tops and Bottoms!
The children brought vegetables from home and we 
had a fantastic variety of veggies to explore and compare!

We used a VENN Diagram 
to sort our vegetables.


We sorted them several different ways!


We weighed, measured and compared!


We wrote about our veggies!


We cut open our veggies.  We tasted and shared our veggies!
(Our guinea pig, Jesse LOVES vegetables.)


We created beautiful vegetable prints!



Our favorite vegetable to print with was the celery!
The children said, 
"It looks like roses!"


We discussed vipers and wrote non fiction facts about these interesting creatures!



In art we constructed vipers using our special "texture powder".
(Embossing powder!  The children LOVE this stuff!)




Take a close look!  Isn't this technique AWESOME!


We talked about vehicles.


We created pattern block vehicles.
(I love pattern blocks in case you haven't noticed!)


We rolled the vehicles through paint!


The highlight of the week was definitely
our science experiment!

VOLCANOS!


Here are the ingredients for Volcanos.  If you haven't ever
tried this....YOU SHOULD!  It's really fun!



Can't you tell?  Totally AWESOME!!


It makes us smile EVERY time!


 Even if the children have done it before!




We will probably have to do Volcanos again soon!
It was VERY fun!

This week was fabulous!
Next week letter K!









Love is in the air!

Happy Valentines Day!



It sure is fun to celebrate Valentine's day with 23 Kindergarteners!



Check out these sacks filled with "love"
and kisses and candy!


I love party days...yes even the sugared up craziness!



I love how much time and effort out sweet families spend on
making our party days fun and exciting!


I love how we show our appreciation for others.


(We surprised Karen with a bag of valentine goodies!)
She LOVED it!


I love how special I felt when I opened MY bag of LOVE!

Thank you!  Valentines Day was awesome!



Letter R Week

Letter R Week

Our themes this week included Rabbits, Raccoons, Robots and Roosters.



The children wrote non-fiction facts about rabbits
and illustrated their writing.


We used rabbit manipulatives to work on addition facts
and complete fact families.



We created rabbits in the art center.


We used Runts for graphing and estimation.



We discussed Raccoons and read the book, The Kissing Hand,


 created storyboards,


and constructed art projects.


Our literacy center also featured Rockets and Robots.  
We read, Roaring Rockets



and created Robots in our art center.


We also explored the book, Rooster's Off to See the World.


The children really enjoyed this story.

Our week was full of excitement and fun and we even
had time to celebrate our 100th day of school.


We love Kindergarten!
Next week letter K!