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. 

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.