We are in our second week of the new year 2018! They Kinders adjusted awesome after their Christmas break. The first week back we spent time on getting back to our routine and lots of review! We did our snowmen unit to get things started.
Our snowmen craft. They may look the same but each one has their own personality added to their snowmen. They are even more cute in person.
We read a story called Snowmen at Night. Before reading the story I asked them what they think snowmen do at night. Most of them said - nothing, but then a few creative ideas started to flow. On the left side of our snowman we listed what we think they do at night. After reading our story we listed things that they actually did in our story (listed on the right side). Some of them thought of the same things that actually happened in our story.
We then came to conclusion that our story we read was make believe. Snowmen can't talk, walk or have snowball fights. At least we don't think they do. :)
During our free choice time they made a rainbow using pegs! They were very proud of their creation. I love seeing their little minds working on how to make this happen. :)
Our letter of the week was letter Oo. Oo is for octopus! They each got to cut out their own legs however they wanted. They just needed to have 8 legs cut out.
The finished product.
In Science this week we learned about clouds. We started off our unit with describing clouds and discussing what we already know about them.
We made our own pet clouds.
Our cloud adjective chart.
Cheerio letter Oo hunt. They had to glue a Cheerio on all the Oo's they could find. Of course their pile was a lot bigger that what we would actually need - but you can't have Cheerio's and not have any to snack on throughout the morning. :)
Our penguin craft that went with our reading stories this week.
One of our Science projects - turning cotton balls into Cirrus clouds. We then drew gray stratus clouds near the ground.
A Science experiment we did using cotton balls and water. We talked about how the clouds collect water and when they get to full it either rains or snows. We dipped our cotton ball in to the water a few times and once out cotton ball got to full - they started to drip out water!
Our penguins up on one of our doors.
This week in Science we also made cloud dough out of corn starch and conditioner. It was quite messy but our room smelt amazing from the conditioner.
