Rainbows, Donuts and Kites!

It's been a crazy last two weeks.  I have been MIA with the blog.  Right before Christmas break - those weeks are very busy which makes it hard for me to get some pictures taken. 

Here are the ones that I was able to catch. :)

One of our letters of the week was letter:  Rr.  We turned our Rr's into rainbows! 

Our Christmas ornaments. 

Kindergarten is 'snow' cool! 

Last week we had two letters of the week: Dd and Kk.

We read a book If You Give a Dog a Donut.  Before we read the story we listed some Dd words.  In our story there was some Dd words that they had to listen for. 

We turned our Dd's into donuts. 

You cannot read a book about donuts without eating some! :)  

One of our sight words for the day was look.  We read a story The Looking Book.  In the story the two boys area given some lookers to get them to go outside and play.  The Kinders each got their own set of lookers to look for things around the classroom. 

After they went to look for something with their lookers they had to draw what they looked for in their journals. 

Another letter of the week was the letter Kk.  We made some kites! 

One of our reading stories from the week was The Mitten.   We listed the characters in the story and sequenced how the animals appeared in the story.  Our handwriting activity was they had to choose an animal that they wanted to fit in their mitten. 

All dressed up and ready to go!  Concert time!! 

Our donuts up! 

Our kites. 

Nn is for Night - Bb is for Bat and Ball!

This week the Kinders had two letters of the week.  We learned about the letters:  Nn and Bb.  We kicked off our week with learning about the letter Nn.  We listed Nn words and listened to the sound.

We turned our Nn's into night! 

Our reading story this week focused on pandas and their growth from baby to adult.  We learned quite a few facts about pandas.

1. They are not bears - they belong to the raccoon family.

2. They eat bamboo and they eat A LOT!

3. They are lazy.  They like to roll to places instead of walking.

4. They are very curious and playful animals!

In our handwriting journals they each wrote a sentence about a fact we learned about pandas. 

Our letter Nn's up. 

Our panda full of Nn words.  We wrote words with Nn at the beginning and at the end of words. 

Our next letter the week was the letter Bb.  We listed Bb words and listened to the sounds.  We made our b out of a bat and ball.  We sang a little chant to help us remember how to write a b. 

Bat first and then up to add the ball. 

We made a panda craft this week to go with our story.  We painted the white face with forks! 

Buddy our elf arrived this week!! 

He left us a story about himself, some of his magic just in case he falls down (Mrs. Bartling can pick him back up if she uses the magic), and a note!  

Putting our panda crafts together. 

Tada!!  The fork lines really look like the pandas' hair! 

Baseball full of Bb words.  We read a story called If You Give a Mouse a Brownie.  We listed our Bb words in the story and they had to choose three of them to write.  

Of course you can't learn the letter Bb without eating some brownies!! They munched on some brownies while writing their words. 

The start of our many Christmas crafts! 

This week we learned about weather.  We checked the weather not once every like we usually do but we checked it twice!  We learned that weather changes all the time.  We looked at weather maps and learned what the colors meant.  Once they learned that blue meant snow they kept looking for snow in our area.   The Kinders also got to see how weather is different all over the world.  We saw some places that were having thunderstorms, some rain and some had snow in the same day! 

Our weather craft with our weather words!