Happy President's Day!

This past week was an eventful week for the Kindergartners.  We started our Presidents unit for President's Day, started to learn and count coins and it was also Valentine's week!!!  The long week ended on a much needed fun day with our Valentine's Day party!

Working on center work: Writing bear facts. 

Centers: Math centers - writing/drawing number that coincides with our reading story. 

The first coin we learned about was a penny.  We learned a few facts about the coin as well as learning to count it.  We started off before learning about our coins with our heads/tails game.  It helps them to identify which side is heads and tails.  

The next coin we learned was nickels.  We learned a few facts about nickels and practiced counting by 5's to count our nickels.  Later on in the week the Kindergartners were introduced to counting one nickel with a few pennies.  They caught on quickly learning to count on and count two different sets of coins.

For our Presidents Unit we first started off learning about our 1st President: George Washington.  We read a few read alouds to learn more about his life as well as a few facts about him.  We identified him on the quarter and dollar bill. 

Abraham Lincoln was our next President we learned about.  We also read some stories about him to help with the facts and to put an image in our heads of who he was and what he did.  We learned that Abe Lincoln had a very special hat that help some secret items in it. 

These are our little Valentine Bee's that we made to 'spruce' up our bulletin board in our room.  They may be simple to do but they turned out super-dee-duper cute! 

Center time:  sounding out and spelling words. 

Here is our Valentine's Day math that we did.  They each got a box of candy hearts.  They had to group them by color and start on their bar graph.  We learned about graphs earlier so it was a good review.  The best part was they got to eat them after they were done! 

The Kindergartners' presenting their homework: their Valentine's Day boxes.  I had one rule with them on these boxes.  They could not tell me what they were making because I wanted it to be a surprise.  I love seeing them when they bring them in on how proud they are of their own creations and their creativeness! They turned out extremely cute!  I was sure surprised! 

Having some party fun with some mustache whistles that Mrs. Bartling gave them. They had some sugar in a couple of these pictures! 

Here are our crafts that we did for our Presidents Unit.  They had to write two sentences about George Washington.  I am sorry if it's hard to read their writing.  If I had the flash off it was too dark you couldn't see and with the flash it was to bright like it is below.  

Our Abe Lincoln craft. They each had a secret flap in their hat.  The top part of the flap says:

Life Abraham Lincoln's hat to see __(student's name)    would keep inside.

We listed some choices on chart paper of the things that we would keep in our hats.  They had to choose one that they would keep and write it down.  

All of our President crafts together out in the hallway. 

Happy 100th Day!!!

It was an exciting week for the Kindergartners this week!  We celebrated our 100th day of school!  Woo hoo!!  They have been waiting a long time for this day to come and it finally came!

This week we started learning about money in math.  We looked at the 4 different coins we will be learning about.  Before we started to learn about the coins, we first identified the heads and tails side of a coin.  We did a graphing on how many heads and tails we flipped with our coin.  They did a great job on this activity and had a blast!

This is our door on the 100th day of school!  They were pretty excited when they saw the streamers and when they found out it was going to stay up all day!!

Starting to decorate our 100th day crowns. 

Doing some center time.  These three students are working on our website that we use: ABCMouse

Center work: identifying real and silly words. 

Center Work: Math center - math game working with identifying larger/smaller numbers. 

Starting to put our crowns together.  They had to add 10 strips to their crowns and then put the number 10 on the top of each strip. 

We started to count by tens all the way to 100 and figured out that was why we needed 10 strips.  I was very impressed!  We then paint dotted 10 dots on each strip so we had a total of 100 dots. 

The Kindergarten class with our 100th day crowns. 

We had to do a silly face picture. 

They each had to bring 100 items of something.  We made our 100 poster as well.  They impressed me again when they noticed that the word 'one hundred' has ten letters just like how our crown had 10 strips.  I asked them how many we should put on each letter and they said 10!  So we glued 10 of our items on each letter. 

To end our exciting week we started some of our Valentine's Day crafts.  For our bulletin board in the hallway we made hearts that showed 4 things we love.  They had to cut out 4 pictures from a magazine and glue to their hearts.  

A writing we did for our 100th day of school.  They had to make a self portrait of them when they are 100.  They had to rip the pieces of paper to glue for their face to get the wrinkle affect as well as ripping pieces of paper for their hair.  Along with their craft, they had to write what they will do when they are 100 years old.  

Our February door decor.