Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

We celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss in lots of fun ways!

We have been doing an author study about Dr. Seuss.  We have been reading lots of his books and learning about his life.  One of the most exciting things about his books is that we learned there are MANY of his books that we can read... ALL BY OURSELVES!  This was a pretty major thing to us! 

We celebrated Dr. Seuss in Literacy Lab by reading Green Eggs and Ham, playing some games, and eating GREEN EGGS AND HAM! 

 Some of us did not want to try this... but when we realized it was green pudding and a cookie that sounded a lot better! 

We also did lots of Dr. Seuss themed centers in our classroom! 

We did subtraction with One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.

 We measured different sized Cat in the Hat hats!

We cut apart different Red Fish and Blue Fish that had numbers to 110 on them.  We had to put the fish in order by tens and fives to 110.

 

We did addition with green eggs and ham!

 We also did a color by number Cat in the Hat and made Cat in the Hat hats and faces! 

We sure loved all the Dr. Seuss books we read!  We still have them out in the room because they are so popular!

Kindergarten Cops and the Puctuation Police

Welcome to Kindergarten Cop Station!

 

We did a super fun lesson about punctuation that involved us becoming police officers!  Actually, we became the Punctuation Police! 

 

We made our own police hats and got our own "official" police badges to wear.  Dressing the part is always important!

We then worked with a partner because officers don't usually work alone.  Team work is important!  

 We each got a ticket pad.  Then we pulled sentences out of the buckets on our tables.  We had to read the sentence with our partner and determine what kind of punctuation the sentence needed.  

We had been noticing in our reading that not every sentence ended with a period.  We were curious about what those other marks were!  We read some books about other kinds of punctuation before we began this lesson.  We learned that we should use a period when we are telling something.  We should use a question mark when we are asking something.  And we should use an exclamation point when we are excited about something. 

 Once we read the sentence and decided what kind of punctuation it needed, we had to take our sentences to the Cheif!  We had to meet with either Chief Addington or Chief Gordon to figure out if what we thought was right.  Then we went back to our seats to do the paperwork!  We had to write the sentence on our ticket pad using spaces between our words and the correct punctuation at the end. 

 

We had a lot of fun doing this!  We did a great job reading and using different kind of punctuation!

Of course, then it was time for a break! 

What would any good cop do for a break?!? 

Eat some donuts and drink some coffee (we pretended with juice!)!

 

What a perfect way to end a hard day on the job!

St. Patrick's Day Shenanigans

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This is a little (ok, a lot) late getting posted but I couldn't not share with the fun things we did for St. Patrick's Day!  

One of the sweetest things we did was write about who is worth more than gold to us!  

We have been working hard on our writing.  We are working on stretching out words and writing as many of the sounds as we can hear.  We are doing a great job with this!  We are also working on using our word wall to help us spell sight words correctly, using spaces between our words and punctuation at the end of a sentence.  We also have been working on making our illustrations full of details and colors! 

Of course, we wore lots of GREEN! 

We also did a really cool experiment.  We put a special powder into a bag.  We observed it and wrote about what it looked like.  It was white and looked like salt or snow. 

Then we added milk. 

And guess what?!?  It turned GREEN! 

And it had little things in it that looked like gold! 

We found out that it was pistachio pudding and we got to eat it!  That was the best part!  YUM!

Our Word Wall Project and 100 Days of Kindergarten

Time sure flies when you're having fun! 

I can not believe that it's already April!  And I have so many things to share with you! 

We've been so busy learning that taking pictures and writing on the blog has fallen by the wayside - and I apologize for that! 

One of the things that we have been working hard on is our word wall!  We made a word wall with all of the sight words that we are working on.  Everyone got a chance to help write words to put on the wall.  Then we determined where they should go.  We use this every day in our reading and writing!  It was a fun project and is now a great tool to help us in our learning!

 

We also had a great time on 100 Day! 

One of the favorite projects that we did was make a necklace out of 100 Froot Loops!  Yum!  Our room sure smelled yummy that day!

We also made a cupcake with 100 sprinkles, we wrote about what we would do with 100 dollars (and got our faces put on 100 dollar bills!),  and shared our 100 collections and discussed how 100 items can be different in size and weight.  Of course, we did a lot of counting to 100 by ones, tens, fives and twos!  It was a fun day!