Hoppy Easter!!

 I hope everyone had a blessed and happy Easter over the weekend.  It wasn't the greatest weather but I will take it over snowing/raining.  Well at least here is wasn't snowing or raining on Easter.  

This last week was a busy and fun week for the Kinders.  We learned the letter Uu, learned two amazing words: truckers and haul, the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas and did lots of Easter themed activities. 

Uu is for Umbrella!  We painted with our thumbs/fingers to add the raindrops. 

We read a story If You Were the Easter Bunny.  For one of our handwriting lessons they had to think of one thing they would do if they were the Easter Bunny. 

Our Easter Bunnies we made. 

Two of our amazing words that went with our reading story this week were: trucker and haul.  We listed lots of different things truckers can haul. 

They each got to decorate their truck but they had to think of/draw things they would haul.  They also had to draw a trucker in the window.  If you look closely you will be able to see them. :)

We read the story: The Easter Egg by Jan Brett.  Hoppy had to decorate an egg to present to the Easter Bunny so he would win the contest.  

They each had to decorate their egg they would design for the contest. 

Here is another story we read.  Clifford changed different colors in this story. 

Here is another handwriting lesson we did.  They had to color Clifford a different way like how he changed in our book. 

Since we learned the letter Uu we had to do something with the word: Underwear.   This week was a silly week especially when we said the word: underwear. 

We read many books about animals in their underwear. :)

Can you say underwear 10 times without smiling or giggling?  It was a hard task to do in the Kindergarten classroom! 

After reading our story about the monsters in their underwear.  They each got to decorate their own pair of underwear. 

They waited all week for this Science activity which included Popsicles.  In Science this week we talked about: solids, liquids and gases.  We identified each type of matter and also learned that matter can go from solid to liquid and back to solid.  You add heat to change it to a liquid and coldness to change it to a solid. 

Our Popsicles started out as a liquid.  We froze them so they would become a solid.  While we were eating them they also pointed out that they were starting to go back to a liquid!  

Uu is for Underwear! 

'Hoppy' Easter!!!

Hoppy Easter everyone!  I hope everyone had a blessed Easter with their loved ones.  I just can't believe Easter is here and gone!  We have started our count down till summer break!  Our chain just keeps getting shorter and shorter - we still are keeping busy in Kindergarten!

This week we learned two letters: Yy and Qq.  We learned that Q married U so they will always be together when a word has the /qu/ sound. 

Here is our Yy craft.  We turned our Yy's into Yaks!  We also did an activity where they had to write Yy words on a ball of yarn! 

In Science these past two weeks we have been learning about seeds and plants/flowers. 

We planted our flowers the other day.  Parents they are perennials - so they will (suppose) to come back next year. 

Our Qq craft was we turned our Qq's into quilts.  We painted our Qq's - but we painted with Q-tips!! 

One of our Easter stories we read this week was about Clifford.  Emily had a dream that Clifford fell into the dye and started to change colors.  They had to each think of a different way Clifford would look after he feel into the dye.  They turned out so creative! 

Another activity that we did to end our plant/flower unit was eating a whole plant.  I kept telling them that they will be eating the seeds, roots, stem, leaves and flower.  You should have seen their faces.  They must not like to eat dirt filled roots.   Most all of them told me that they were going to be sick that day we did this. 

Here are the parts of the plant that we ate.

Seeds: Sunflower Seeds

Roots:  Carrots

Stem:  Celery

Flower:  Cauliflower/broccoli 

Leaves:  Lettuce

Some our our Q-tip Quilts. 

Another Easter story we read was The Easter Bunny by Jan Brett.  All the rabbits in the story decorated eggs to present to the Easter Bunny.  

They each decorated an egg that they would present to the Easter Bunny. 

Jelly Bean Math!  They each had an egg in the classroom that they had to go find.  Inside their eggs were the jelly beans that we used to do our math. 

We made some homemade Easter baskets.  They turned out super cute!