100th Day Hooray!

It has been crazy these last two weeks.  During these last two weeks, we have learned two letters: Hh and Ll, we learned about the seasons, celebrated our 100th day of school, talked about Groundhogs Day and did our Three Little Pigs unit. 

Hh is for house.  

In Science we learned about the four seasons.  We did one season a day during our week.  In each season they had to think about the things that they can do, see or what happens in that season.  Their ideas were then wrote on our Season charts. 

Our four season tree.  We glued all the season trees together to make one season tree.  They had to cut and color 3-4 pictures that matches each season. 

Ll is for Lion! 

We retold our Three Little Pigs story by drawing the houses that matched each pig. 

They then had to imagine they were a pig building a house.  What would you build your house out of - straw, sticks or bricks?

Most of them choose bricks.  

We learned about Groundhogs Day and what it means if Phil sees his shadow or not.  We had a class poll on if we think he will see his shadow or not.  The ones with blue construction paper behind their writing said that Phil will not see his shadow and the ones with yellow thought he will see his shadow. 

This week we celebrated our 100th day!  They had to come up with a picture using 100 items.  They all did a wonderful job!  Very creative. 

Our door on the 100th day! 

Making our 100th day hats. 

They each got 10 strips and had to dot paint 10 dots on each strip - making 100 dots!

Can you finish your lollipop in 100 licks?  A little math game we did recognizing our numbers while eating a sucker! 

To end our Three Little Pigs unit we did a STEM challenge.  They had to build a house that wouldn't get blown down by the wolf aka Mrs. Bartling's blow dryer! 

They all did a wonderful job designing their houses.  They all stayed up for the wolf except for one house.   That one house that fell down- the Kinder stated that they knew what they needed to do to fix it.  They fixed it and WAHLA - it didn't blow down!  

6 more weeks of Winter or Spring???

The question that everyone wants to know.... will we have six more weeks of Winter or six more weeks until Spring?  Here were our Kindergarten predictions about Phil the Groundhog.  The ones with yellow paper are the ones who thought that he will see his shadow and the ones with blue paper thought he would not.  

February 2nd has come and gone!  Phil the Groundhog did see his shadow - 6 more weeks of Winter! I am not sure how I feel about that but I had some Kinders that were happy for more snow.  

These last two weeks sure have flown by!  January came to and end and it is already February! Here the Kinders are working on their amazing words in their journals.  One of our words was: world.  

We started our money unit.  We first learned how to identify heads and tails.  We played a game heads or tails.  They had to mark each time they got one or the other to see which side they got most of. 

We learned about the different types of land forms - so of course we had to learn about volcanoes and make our own! 

For one of our handwriting activities we read the book:  The Mitten  by Jan Brett.  They had to choose one of our animals from a calendar (yes a calendar-got to love those with big pictures of animals) and glue it in their mitten. They turned out super duper cute! 

Working on heads/tails with our new coin: nickel! 

Writing the room; finding the letter Ll in words.  

One of our reading stories from the week was: The Three Little Pigs.  They had to decide what they would build their house out of: straw, sticks or bricks.  To incorporate writing in this they had to tell a reason why they choose to build their house that way. 

Ll is for lady bug! 

Putting our groundhogs together. 

Working with partners on counting coins. 

A sneak peek of our Valentine hearts' crafts we did on Friday!