Being 'Batty' and having a 'Hoot' in Kindergarten!!

This week the kindergartners were having a 'hoot!'  We learned about owls and started learning about bats.  We will review our bat facts next week when we learn about spiders for our Halloween unit! Our letter this week was Cc (hard Cc).  We made a Cc anchor chart and listed as many hard Cc words we could think of.  We came up with two words and put them together: candy corn!  We then made letter Cc's with our candy corn!

Working during centers with lowercase letters.

Jackie Steffen from the UNL Extension Office of Cedar County came again this week to our classroom.  This week was Read for the Record.  We are trying to set a record on how many students/classrooms read the same book for one whole week.  The book was: Bunny Cakes by: Rosemary Wells (cartoon with Max and Ruby).  Jackie came into our room to read the book with us and did some fun activities. 

After reading the story, the kindergartners each got a chance to sequence the story using the pictures. They all did very well!

After sequencing they made a craft that required listening.  It was a great activity to help remind on how to follow/listen for directions. 

The end result was Max the bunny from our story!

Here are the Kindergartners' with the Max bunnies after helping set the goal for Read for the Record!

We learned started to learn about owls.  I asked them each what they all knew about owls.  We read a story and then went over our anchor chart with facts about owls. 

To go with our letter Cc activity with our candy corn.  We taste tested 3 different types of candy corn: Starburst flavored, S'more's and Apple Pie.  I had no idea that there were all these different kinds of candy corn.  They had to taste test each flavor.  When were were done taste testing they had to color their candy corn to represent their favorite flavor.  Starbursts was the most popular flavor, followed with S'mores and then Apple Pie.  Apple pie was my favorite!  I recommend trying these flavors! :)

Working on centers:  identifying if the pictures rhyme or not. 

Math Centers: Identifying the numbers and placing correct number of candy corn teeth on pumpkin. 

Another Cc activity we did this week was make large cupcakes.  We read two books about cupcakes.  The Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake and If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.  

A center craft they got to do was make coffee filter ghosts. 

More center work: Identifying which letter comes next. 

Center Work: Roll a letter. 

We read a Halloween book: shown below. 

We acted out the actions and sounds that each item made. 

Next we sequenced the story together as a class. 

They then had to sequence on their own. 

Since we are learning about adjectives we did some "witchy' adjectives.  We read the book: Wee Witches Halloween.   They had to describe what those witches looked like and what they wore.  Here is our anchor chart below. 

They had to write one sentence about a witch using the anchor chart.  To go with our sentences they got to make hand print witches. They turned out very cute! 

Our number sight word was nine this week.  We are placing our bat numbers in order from 1-9. 

They each got a sentence strip and had to sequence the bat numbers on their own.  

Cutting out our bat numbers. 

I previously mentioned that we read the book:  The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything.  To go with our book we made scarecrows.  For the faces they had to listen to directions.  The boys had to have circle eyes and a square nose.  The girls had triangle eyes with a rectangle nose.  For their mouths: boys had 5 stitches and girls had 3 stitches.  They did very well listening and following directions.  

We took down our leaves and put up our scarecrows to go with our large scarecrow in our room. 

In our book the items each made a nose, for example the shoes went "clomp, clomp."  We call those sound words onomatopoeia.  It is a hard word to say, we had some struggle trying to say it the first time, but we kept trying and we got it!  We reviewed what the items in our story all said and listed some other sound words.  They each had to chose one from the board and write it on a white bubble.  They had to choose a sound word that their scarecrow made.  We put our onomatopoeia words next to our scarecrows!