We have a dream!!!

I can't believe that January is almost over and that this is the first time I have posted in 2015! I apologize for lack of posting, we just have been super duper busy in Kindergarten.  Before I start on this post, I want to brag about my Kinders first :).  They are becoming magnificent little readers.  I have some students who are reading more challenging books in the classroom and we also have learned 53 sight words!  They are blending letters together very well to try to figure out those bigger and new words!  I am so proud of them.  

This week we have been working with the letter Hh.  We listed some Hh words on our chart.  We then cut our and colored a horse with some hay stacks.  On each of the hay stacks they had to draw an Hh word.  They were feeding their horses hay stack Hh words.  

Drawing and writing our Hh words. 

We learned about a man who changed the lives of some people, Martin Luther King Jr.  We read some stories about him and then talked about what he did to help others, as well as the dream he had.  I do this every year with my classes, because it's a great way to show how we are all the same.  I had a brown and white egg.  We talked about how they looked different from each other and then we cracked them.  To our surprise they looked the exact same!  This helps teaches that it doesn't matter what we look like on the outside, we are the same on the inside. 

A story that I read with the Kindergartners was "The Crayon Box that Talked."  Before we read the story, I had them get 1 crayon out.  I told them what to draw on the paper but they could only use that one color they choose.  We talked about how our pictures looked like.  I got a lot of 'it's not pretty' and 'it looks boring.'

We read the story and talked about how the crayons didn't like each other because they were all different colors.  At the end the story when the little girl was done drawing the picture, the crayons realized that they made a beautiful picture working together and using all the different colors.   I sent them back to their seats and told them to draw the same picture using all different colors.  

For some handwriting, we reviewed Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that he had.  We listed some dreams we would have to make things fair and have everyone get along.  They thought of some great dreams.  Here are the writings along with our Martin Luther King Jr. craft. 

Our door decor:  Our activity to go with our book "The Crayon Box that Talked." 

As well as learning about MLK Jr., we also learned about the seasons and how they change.  We did a finger paint craft to help show how the trees look in each season.