Dancing through Homecoming Week!

We danced our way through Homecoming this week!  Our theme was "Dancing through the Decades."  It was fun week for the Kinders and their outfits for each day were awesome!! 

Here some a few things we did this fun, crazy and busy week! 

Buddy reading - when we read to a partner or a puppet!  This week we read our little stories to our puppets!

The leaves that we water colored last week are up for our September door decor!  They turned out awesome! 

70's day!

Peace!

One of our sight words this week was: it.  We are dot painting using Q-tips the word it. 

Our color sight word of the week was red.  This song was very catchy!  I heard them singing it through the day and then I even sang it at home! 

Our red poem/song went into our journals.

This week we were introduced on classifying and categorizing.  We first sorted out buttons by color as a whole group by putting them in the matching color bucket.  Then we separated into groups and sorted them by shape. 

Busy working on our homecoming posters. 

Math centers.  One of our centers was the "Dump It' game.  We have been learning ways to make five. They each got 5 double sided goldfish (one side red/one side yellow).  They shook their fish in the cup and dumped them onto the tray.  However many red or yellow fish they got they had to draw that many circles in the correct color box.  They LOVED this game and did a very good job!

Dot painting the correct number of leaves on each tree. 

In Science this week we learned about reptiles.  We learned that they have scales, lay eggs and are cold blooded.  Some reptiles can even live in the water! 

We read stories about reptiles and also saw some real pictures of reptiles as well. 

We made some snakes on the last day of our unit.  The roughness of the noodles were to represent the feeling of the scales on our snakes.   

Lined up and ready to go march in the parade with our posters!  Go Big Blue!!

Fun, Fast and Busy Week!

Wow where did this week go?  I feel like the weeks are flying by faster and faster.  I apologize now that there are hardly any pictures! This week we learned to write letters Oo-Ss.  We introduced some of the sounds but really focused on learning to write them and identifying the letters.

Here the Kinders are doing some letter finds using dot paints. 

Center time - play doh!

Center time - file folder games. 

One of our sight words for the week was:  the.   We read the story The Itsy Bitsy Spider and also did the fingerplay/song along with it.  We listed all the things that the spider crawled up in our story.  We really focused on saying the word THE!

Here is our sight word poem that got put into our journals. 

In Social Studies this week we had a day where we learned about being able to identify where things are at.  We listed place words such as: above, under, next to, on top and etc.

We brought out the parachute to bring in on the fun!  Sorry for no pictures- I joined along with them! :)

Here they are hiding UNDER their tables.

Another one of our sight words for the week was: two.  

Sight word - journal work.

This week we also were introduced to the differences between letters and words as well as what a sentence is.  Next week we will start to learn about the parts of a sentence - capital letter at beginning, end mark at the end and if it makes sense or not.  

Working on one of our letters - Ss.

Leaf painting our names with watercolors.  Be on the look out for the finished project with our leaves!