Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are some pictures from our party day.  Thank you to all the parent helpers.

Monster Love

Monster Love

Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', 

Oh my darlin', Valentine.

You are hairy and quite scary, 

But I want you to be mine!

Love your smile and your style 

and you smell of french fries.  

You treat me oh so sweetly, 

when you bat your three big eyes.

To go along with our poem this week, we made Love Monsters.  A project like this is always good practice for our listening skills.  Our monsters look great decorating our classroom.

We are getting excited for Valentines Day!  Valentines should be sent to school by Friday morning.  If you would like to send them earlier so they are not forgotten, we can set them aside in your child's locker until they are needed.  We will be passing out Valentines and opening them BEFORE the party on Friday, so I want to make sure everyone has cards at school.  I sent home a copy of our class picture to reference while making Valentines. Students may write names, if they would like or cut out the picture to glue on.  If you need another copy, please let me know.

Penguins

Last week we read non-fiction texts to learn about penguins.  First, we recorded our Penguin Schema, or what we knew about penguins.  After reading our book, students drew and wrote something they learned.  Here is the chart we made with this information. 

 

Some of our New Learning included:

*They are birds.

*They do not fly.

*Penguins eat squid, fish, and krill.

*They swim in the water.

*There are many kinds of Penguins.  We especially liked the Rockstar Penguin.

They live in the Antarctic.

They use their flippers to swim. 

They walk on ice. 

They huddle together to stay warm.

The male penguins watch the egg while the female hunts for food.  

The penguin sits on their feet to stay warm.

Baby feathers are not waterproof.

At the end of the week, we painted penguins.

Happy 100th Day of School!

Today we are celebrating our 100th Day of Kindergarten!  The kids could dress up like they were 100 years old and this morning we made crowns.  Check out our pictures below.  And if you scroll down the blog, you will find us on the first day school....they looked so young back then!  Think of how much we have learned since then!

Art

Every Thursday the kids get to show their creative side in Art.  Today they did a guided drawing of themselves all dressed for the show.  Below are their masterpieces.  Can you find your child?

Writers Workshop

This week we started Writer's Workshop!  I love this time because it is really where we can see so much growth.  Students enter Kindergarten with a wide range of skills and knowledge.  It is exciting to see it all come together and watch them write sentences.  In the beginning, they can get discouraged because they think they can't really write or they don't know how to spell; however, we just TRY OUR BEST! We learn to write the sounds we hear.  On Day 1 we learned that writing is just telling on paper.  We used this chart to help us remember our steps.

Here are some pictures from our first day...

I can't wait to share their writing with you.  When we our down with our first writing unit, we will "publish" or writing and it will go home for you to enjoy!