Pp is for Pumpkins!!

This week was yet another busy week for Kindergarten.  Our letter of the week was the letter Pp which fit in perfect because in Science we learned about the life cycle of pumpkins! 

Here we area gluing popcorn onto our paper.

Pp is for popcorn!

This not only was a fun activity to do - it was also very yummy! 

Playing with some Playdough.

One of our sight words was: like.  They each had to name one or two things they liked.  

We then drew what we liked in our journals. 

We read the story Where the Wild Things Are.  We talked about adjectives this week.  We listed adjectives to describe the wild things and then we focused on the word wild!

Math centers: Roll a pumpkin. 

Our Pumpkin Life Cycle chart. 

Gluing our pumpkin life cycle together. 

Another Pp activity was making a pancake pan full of Pp words!

Center work with the sight word; like. 

We are FIRED up for Safety!!

This week was another fun and busy week.  

Here the Kindergartners are deep in thought at writing -at words on our bats!

Our letter of the week was the letter Ss.  We are turning our letter Ss into spiders!

One of our Halloween crafts were candy corn bats! 

Here are our spiders when they were all finished. 

We not only learned about fire safety, we learned about Christopher Columbus.  We learned that he accidentally came to America, but it was a good thing he did!  We also learned that he had three ships:  The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.  We made the ship Nina. 

Here the Kindergartners are writing some Ss words onto strips.  They will use these strips to glue onto our snake.  We made a Striped S Word Snake! 

One of our sight words was the word: purple.  We read the story: Harold and the Purple Crayon.  After reading we reviewed the purple items we saw in the book, then we each got to draw two things that were purple.  The Kindergartners didn't know what our picture would be like until we were done with gluing our purple pictures on.  Once we had the purple pictures on, I then drew the stem and leaf.  Once I did that, they all shouted "We made grapes!"  WOOHOO!! :)

Making some chalk ghosts for our door. 

We learned about leaves and how they change.  We also learned what comes first, next and last.  After we read a story about leaves and how they change, we wrote the life of a leaf.  The leaf pictures are actually leaf rubbings.  My camera didn't show the rubbings as well as I hoped they would. 

Here the Kindergartners are doing some sight word rainbow writing. This is one of their favorites because they get to write in markers!! 

Center work:  working on color identification and color words.

This week we also learned about fire safety and who firefighters are!  We discussed what to do if there was a fire in our classroom.  We stop, drop to the floor and start to crawl to a safe exit to get out of the room.  We also learned how to touch the door and what to do if they feel heat coming from the door - we find a new way to get out safely. 

Firefighters are our friends! That is one thing we talked about every day!  We saw pictures of what firefighters looked like before they put on their bunker gear and after.  Even though they look different, they are still our friends and are here to help us!

Here is an anchor chart we filled out about our heroes: firefighters. 

We have been learning to graph - so on Fun Friday we did some M & M Math to help with color identification, counting and graphing! They said the best part of Math that day was they got to eat candy!! 

Since we learned about letter Ss, we read a story about a silly scarecrow.  To go with our book and to have another fall craft we made scarecrows! 

Our chalk ghosts on our door.  

Our purple chart with our firefighter writings. 

Kindergarten Firefighters!