March Madness!!!

Wow! Where did the time slip to this time!  I didn't get a single post in at all in March.  The title pretty much sums it up "March Madness!"  March Madness is not only for basketball but for Kindergarten!

We have had a very busy month of March.  Here are some activities that we did during the March Madness!

In Science we started to learn about clouds.  Here is the cloud chart that had adjectives about clouds in the big white one and the names of the clouds we learned/talked about on the side. 

Another cloud anchor chart that we did to help us know more about each cloud. 

March was also Dental Health month.  We did a week unit about brushing our teeth and keeping them healthy.  Here is one of my favorite activities/lesson to do with that shows them what happens to our teeth when we don't brush them and when we do.

I boiled some eggs and soaked them in brown pop for 3 days and 3 nights. They turned brown of course.  Those eggs showed the Kindergartners what happens when we don't brush our teeth. 

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They each got an egg, a toothbrush and some toothpaste and went to work.  They started to brush their 'teeth.'   After some time brushing they started to come clean! 

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One of our sight words.  One of our reading stories for the month was Goldilocks and the Three Bears.   During this week one of our sigh words was: said.   They had to think of something that they said when they woke up and saw three bears at the bed just like Goldilocks.  

One our our projects for Science was making clouds.  We read a story called: Little Cloud by Eric Carle.  Little Cloud turned into a lot of different things during the story.  At the end Little Cloud joined his other cloud friends and they turned into a big storm cloud! They each had to think of something else Little Cloud could turn into.  They painted their cloud and then wrote a sentence about what their cloud turned into. 

They all turned out very neat!

Sorry that some of the writing is hard to see.  This cloud was turned into a rocket ship. 

This cloud turned into an electric eel. 

This cloud turned into a horse. 

On St. Patrick's Day we had a very naughty visitor who kept visiting us through out the day.  He was pretty busy in the morning before we came to school!! Our room was a mess!

He even moved all of them to RED!  I would move them up and he would keep moving them back down!  

We came back from lunch and we found this note from that naughty little leprechaun (who is not a very good speller).  

Here are some of the clovers that were hidden around the room. 

Our hallway bulletin board. 

Our leprechaun pots. 

After getting a visit from that naughty Lucky.  We thought of ways that we could catch him!  They came up with some very creative ways!

Start of Spring!

Bring on the warm weather!! We lately have been getting very spoiled with such the nice weather!  I hope it stays that way and Spring comes fast!  

The year is starting to wind down but it hasn't stopped the Kindergartners.  We have been keeping busy.  We recently learned about our primary and secondary colors as well as mixing our colors. 

This is one of my favorite books to read to introduce your primary and secondary colors as well as learning to mix colors.  I highly recommend not only to other teachers but to parents to have in their home library.  It involves your child which makes it even more fun!

In math we just started learning about weight and capacity.  Here we are determining how much different objects can hold and which one holds more.  

A St. Patrick's craft we did to help spruce up our room. 

Learning about weight.  They worked in groups to determine heavy vs. light objects. 

On St. Patrick's Day we had a very mischievous leprechaun visit our room.  He put all of the Kindergartners on red.  They kind of enjoyed being on red for once since none of them have made it there yet (which is a good thing).  I told them that I now had to call their parents even though I just got done talking to all of them the night before at parent/teacher conferences.  

When we came back from our morning recess, we had a little note left for us.  I am thinking is leprechaun should come to Kindergarten with us so he can learn how to spell. 

They had a blast with this clover scavenger hunt.  We found all 11!!

Throughout the day we noticed little doings from Lucky.  He put our schedule backwards!

Doing some math center work.  

Since Lucky put all of us on red, we thought we should make him a clip of his own and place him on red with us. 

In Science we have been learning about the different types of matter.  We first started learning about paper and cloth and how we can change it.  They had a homework assignment.  They had to change a paper bag into a puppet and then tell us how they changed other items to make their puppet.  We each showed off our puppets then I split them into groups and they had to come up with a puppet play for us.  They did very good!  I was very impressed with their little puppet performances as well as their creative puppets!

A pig, buffalo and zebra puppet. 

A calf, cow and dog puppet. 

An Easter bunny, police officer and Olaf puppet. 

Since Spring is just around the corner we listed some spring words to help us out with our writing. 

They had to choose five Spring words/items that they liked about Spring. 

Our bulletin board in our classroom. 

In Science we learned about another type of matter: clay.  We listed things that were made out of clay.  We made our own batch of clay and they each got to shape their clay into what they wanted.  We baked them for an hour to see how they have changed. 

The creations before they were put in the oven.  

Our rainbow flowers.  We learned about the colors of the rainbow and the order of the colors.  

A writing to go with our rainbow flowers. 

Here are our clay creations after they were baked and painted.  They turned out very neat!