Happy President's Day!!

This week we had another five day week so we got to celebrate President's Day at school!  We first learned what/who a President is.  We used our new word chart to help us remember our new word: President.  They each had to draw themselves as a President. 

We learned who/what a President is and what they do to help us.  We also learned about George Washington and Abe Lincoln.  Here is our George Washington writing activity and craft.  They had to think of two things that they learned about George Washington. 

We had a special show and tell this week.  Someone brought some baby lambs!  I have been teaching for five years and this was a first for me!  We usually get dogs, cats, bunnies and baby calves brought in, but I have never had a baby lamb brought in.  They are so cute!  Thanks again for bringing them in! 

We read two stories about; The Three Little Pigs.  We compared the two stories and then voted on which one we liked the best.   

Our Abe Lincoln crafts.  We learned that Abe placed important papers and items in his hat.  They each got to think of some things they would like to put in their hats!  Some of them got quite creative and wanted some snacks in theirs (which consisted of some pickles, hot dogs and cupcakes).  

This week we started a new chapter in Math.  We are currently learning about coins.  Before we got introduced to the different types of coins, we first learned the heads and tails side of coins.  We did a heads or tails flipping activity.  They had to color in a box each time they got a heads or tails.  

Here is our chart that helped us learn about what a penny is.  

In Science we focused on heavy/light as well as sink/float.  We weighed our heavy and light items on scales in the classroom and then used those same items for our sink/float experiment.  Some of them learned that their heavy item floated while their light item sank.  

YAY! It's our 100th Day!!

We finally reached our 100th day of school on Feb. 2 which also landed on Groundhog Day!  It was a busy day/week for these Kindergartners!  This post will be a combination of Groundhog's Day, our 100th Day as well as some Valentine's Day activities that we did.  

Here are some 'Bee Mine' Valentine Bees we made!  They turned out BEE-utiful! :)

We learned about Groundhog's Day and the purpose behind it.  We did a writing craft to go with learning about Groundhog's Day.  They each had to predict if the groundhog would see his shadow or not.  We added a cute little groundhog to make our writing a little more fun and cute! 

We learned about ground hogs by using our: are, have and can chart. 

Some of our 100th day decorations! 

Our 100th writing.  They made themselves look like they were 100 years old.  They then had to think of something they would do when they are 100 years old.  Some of them are quite creative!

The Kindergartners had some homework to do for the big day!  They each had to list 8 of their favorite things.  When we put all our things together we had a total of 100 favorite things!  Yes we did count them! :)

They 100th day snack! 

They also had to bring 100 items of their choice.  Here we are counting our 100 items and putting them into groups of 10.  

Our 100th day poem we put in our journals.  They then wrote a big 100 on the other side and decorated it! 

In Science these last few weeks we have been learning about water. We learned why we need it, who uses water, where we can find water and how water helps us.

Here is our new word chart about the word; water. 

One of our sight words was; that.  They had to cut out two pictures from the magazine and then past it onto the line.  The sentence they wrote was:

That is a ________.    

A Valentine's Day craft we made.  They each had to cut out 5 things they love.  

Our Valentine's Day bears! Super cute!

Here is another anchor chart that we used when learning about where we can find water and the types of water. 

For our Valentine's Day math we estimated how many candy hearts were in our boxes, sorted them out by color, counted them and then made graph based on the colors we had. 

The Kindergarten Valentine's Day boxes they made!

They all turned out amazing!