Bring on the warm weather!! We lately have been getting very spoiled with such the nice weather! I hope it stays that way and Spring comes fast!
The year is starting to wind down but it hasn't stopped the Kindergartners. We have been keeping busy. We recently learned about our primary and secondary colors as well as mixing our colors.
This is one of my favorite books to read to introduce your primary and secondary colors as well as learning to mix colors. I highly recommend not only to other teachers but to parents to have in their home library. It involves your child which makes it even more fun!
In math we just started learning about weight and capacity. Here we are determining how much different objects can hold and which one holds more.
A St. Patrick's craft we did to help spruce up our room.
Learning about weight. They worked in groups to determine heavy vs. light objects.
On St. Patrick's Day we had a very mischievous leprechaun visit our room. He put all of the Kindergartners on red. They kind of enjoyed being on red for once since none of them have made it there yet (which is a good thing). I told them that I now had to call their parents even though I just got done talking to all of them the night before at parent/teacher conferences.
When we came back from our morning recess, we had a little note left for us. I am thinking is leprechaun should come to Kindergarten with us so he can learn how to spell.
They had a blast with this clover scavenger hunt. We found all 11!!
Throughout the day we noticed little doings from Lucky. He put our schedule backwards!
Doing some math center work.
Since Lucky put all of us on red, we thought we should make him a clip of his own and place him on red with us.
In Science we have been learning about the different types of matter. We first started learning about paper and cloth and how we can change it. They had a homework assignment. They had to change a paper bag into a puppet and then tell us how they changed other items to make their puppet. We each showed off our puppets then I split them into groups and they had to come up with a puppet play for us. They did very good! I was very impressed with their little puppet performances as well as their creative puppets!
A pig, buffalo and zebra puppet.
A calf, cow and dog puppet.
An Easter bunny, police officer and Olaf puppet.
Since Spring is just around the corner we listed some spring words to help us out with our writing.
They had to choose five Spring words/items that they liked about Spring.
Our bulletin board in our classroom.
In Science we learned about another type of matter: clay. We listed things that were made out of clay. We made our own batch of clay and they each got to shape their clay into what they wanted. We baked them for an hour to see how they have changed.
The creations before they were put in the oven.
Our rainbow flowers. We learned about the colors of the rainbow and the order of the colors.
A writing to go with our rainbow flowers.
Here are our clay creations after they were baked and painted. They turned out very neat!
