We've gone BUGGY!!!

We have exactly gone buggy!! With only a week left of school-you can tell the excitement is coming out a little bit more! :)  This week we learned about insects.  We learned that they have three body parts: head, thorax and abdomen, they also have two antenna and six legs.  

In reading this week we read a story about Old MacDonald had a Woodshop.  We also read other Old MacDonald books and compared the two stories.  We also came up with our own MacDonald song.  We listed some random animals, came up with a sound they make and then sang it!

Here are some pictures of our busy week.

Before we started our bug unit we made our own bugs!  

Here are our chicken life cycle crafts that we make last week. 

Also before we started our bug unit I had them think of things that they know about bugs.  I love the 'gross' comment.  I completely agree! :) 

Building our bees, 

We looked through a magic Kaleidoscope that showed us how insects see.  

Another fun fact we learned about bees is that they have five eyes!  Two big eyes and three little ones in between their big ones! We also learned that the female bees are the only ones that sting. 

At the end our Old MacDonald reading unit we made our farm animals! 

We had a visitor from Lewis and Clark Natural Resources Department come in and talk about trees for Arbor Day!  At the end of the lesson they each got their own little tree to take home to plant! 

Making our hand print leaves for our big class tree. 

Our bugs out and up in the hallway! 

National Kinder Day and Earth Day!!!

This week the Kinders had a very busy and fun week.  We came back from our Easter break, got our chick eggs, celebrated National Kindergarten Day, learned about Earth Day and did our Earth Day project!  

This week we started our last book in our reading series.  These units talk about ways we can build items.  We started off the unit by building a home for Leo the Leopard.  They were split into two groups and tried to build a home for him.  We talked about how it needs to be big enough for him to lay down, sit up and also protect him from the weather.  

Jackie from the Cedar County Extension office came to talk about our chick eggs that we will be hopefully hatching in 18 days!! 

This week we reviewed our vowels.  We focused on the vowels: Aa and Ii.  We split up into two groups. split up our sight words and went on a Aa and Ii vowel find.  They had to find a sight word with either Aa or Ii in it and write it on their big chart. 

Building our Earth's for our Earth Day craft. 

We talked about ways we can help our Earth so keep it beautiful and clean! 

Finding picture words in our books that have the vowels: Aa and/or Ii. 

One of our sight words for this week was: make.  We read a story about a family of warthogs making something in the kitchen.  At the end of the story they ended up making mess!

We listed words that rhymed with our sight word: make. 

Our Pledge to care for our Earth! 

Friday April 21 is National Kindergarten Day!  We celebrated the day by having a beach day!  

Also on Friday we did our Earth Day project.  We walked around town and picked up some trash! 

Since Jackie brought our eggs this week, we talked about the life cycle of a chicken and also learned about other animals that hatch from eggs. 

Reading a story while relaxing at the beach.  While reading the story - there were some 'waves' that kept coming up to the beach and splashing them! :)    The ways that were splashing them was a little water bottle that was being sprayed at them.  They completely enjoyed it! 

Ending our day with a snack outside - beach cupcakes!