It's Christmas time!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We have been super busy during our last week of school in the year 2017!! 

Our letter of the week was letter Ff.  We turned our letter Ff's into some frogs and added some flies on the side. 

Our chart full of words that begin or end with the letter Ff. 

We made some ornaments for our parents for Christmas.  They each got to draw a picture of what they wanted to and then decorate their picture frame. 

Our parents' presents all wrapped up and ready to go home! 

Each day we had a theme during our Christmas week.  On Tuesday we had Gingerbread Man Day.  We read many stories about the Gingerbread Man and then compared/contrasted the stories. 

Making some sticker gingerbread men. 

We decorated some gingerbread men! 

Ff is for frog and flies! 

On Wednesday we had pajama day - Polar Express Day.  We read the story and even got some tickets to hop on our classroom Polar Express train! 

Buddy our elf even brought something back from Santa!  Thanks Buddy! 

We also made homemade hot chocolate on our pajama day. 

Using adjectives to describe our hot chocolate. 

We reviewed our vowels.  We listed some Christmas/Winter words.  Once we had our words, they each got to come up and circle the vowels that was in their word. 

On Thursday we had Grinch Day!  We all wore green, read the story and thought of ways to make the Grinch grin! 

We even wrote him a letter telling him why he should smile. 

Making our Grinch dust!  We added something sweet, some joy and love!

We learned about other Christmas holidays this week as well.  We talked about Kwanzaa and Hanukkah.  

We each water colored our own driedels. 

Christmas party fun! 

These three Kinders were recognized at our academic pep rally for having the highest AIMS Web test results! 

Way to go Kinders! 

Animal Adventures!

These last few weeks have very busy!  Not only are we finishing up some units but we are also getting closer to Christmas!  We all know where the Kinders minds have been! :) They have been doing a great job at staying focused. 

We are getting close to the end of our animal unit.  We learned about animals in the ocean, the desert and the animal that lives in Antarctica -penguins! 

After we learned about some of the animals that live in the ocean, they each got to choose one of their favorites and write why they like it.  We attached our writings to our divers. 

One of our letters we learned this week was the letter Ff.  We built a fire and wrote words that begin with Ff on the 'flames.' 

One our of penguin crafts! 

We read a story: If You Were a Penguin.  To go with our craft they had to think of something they would do if they were a penguin.  

Here are our divers! 

Building our Christmas ornaments that we hung up on our ceiling. 

Making our desert scenes. We learned that animals in the desert have long ears because it helps them stay cool.  The Kinders also learned that the desert is pretty quiet during the day, but at night it is a lot noisier! The animals come out at night because it is a lot cooler. 

The other letter that we learned was the letter Dd.  We made our Dd into a donut.  You can't have a donut without sprinkles! :) 

One of our sight words was: look.  We read a story called The Looking Book.  These two kids got a special pair of lookers from their mom to get them to go outside.  They each got a pair of lookers and had to go around and find some things.  We then went around and looked for certain letters and numbers that were on our 'looking' sheet. 

Paint dotting our sight word: look

We read a story called I Wanna Iguana.  The story is about a little boy that wants an iguana, so he tries to persuade his mom with reasons why he needs one.  The kinders each had to write a few sentences to try to persuade their parents to let them have this certain pet. 

Our ornaments all finished! 

Here are some of our fact charts from learning about animals in the ocean. 

 We made a fish from our letter Ff.