Clouds, Snowmen and Penguins!

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. 

Is it Living?

This week we continued learning some of our ABC's.  Our reading story focused on letters Oo-Ss.  We started off our day by learning the letter Oo. We used Cheerio's to put in words that started with Oo.  We continued the day finding words and learning to sound them out that started with out.  

We also learned about the letter Pp.  We read the story, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.  We went over the sound the letter Pp makes and listened for words that made the sound at the beginning.  We made a list of those words to use with our Pp craft.  

We made pancakes, added our syrup and they had to sort the pictures based on if they made the 'Pp' sound at the beginning.  If it made the 'Pp' sound they glued it onto a yellow square which we used as our butter to go on our pancakes.  

In Science we learned about living and nonliving.  We started off the unit by going through a power point and guess if it's living or nonliving.  We went over some of the things we thought living things needed. 

Our song that we learned to help us know if it's living or not. 

 

We sorted living and nonliving pictures and put them into our journals.  

One of our sight words this week was 'little'.  In our journals they wrote the word and then had to go through some ABC sticks and find four 'little' letters.  

Learning to pattern by working in some math centers. 

Another letter we focused on this week was the letter Ss.  We listed some Ss words and found/listened to where the Ss was at.  

They each got four yellow strips.  They had to write one word on each of the strips.  

We used those strips to put onto our letter Ss snake.  

Center time: 

Stamps

coloring

pattern building

Journals:  making a pattern