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!

Let It Snow

We have been busy learning about snow!  That seems pretty appropriate considering how much actual snow we've had! 

We learned about snowflakes!  We learned that snowflakes have different shapes depending on the temperature of the air but that most snowflakes have six sides.  We also learned that they are made of little crystals of ice. 

We made our own six sided snowflakes using pipe cleaners and beads!

 

 We also made some very special snowflakes!  We decorated snowflakes using water based markers.  Then we sprayed the snowflakes with water.  The colors then spread out and made new colors and designs!  It was really fun to see what happened to the designs we created!

 We also made a snowman!  Not just any snowman... this was a REALLY BIG SNOWMAN!  We voted on what we wanted it to look like.  Then we worked together to make all the parts!

 Then we worked together to make labels for our snowman.  We wrote all the words!  We used some sight words that we already knew and we also learned some new ones!

 

When we were finished, we put him together at the end of the hallway so our friends could see him!  We were pretty proud of him!  We think he looks great!

 We also made some pretend snow... that was pretty cool!  It started out as little dry pieces that looked like salt.  We added water and it puffed up into snow!

 

We also did an experiment!  We wanted to see what would happen to ice.  We put ice in three cups.  In one cup we just had ice.  In another cup we added sugar to the ice.  In another cup we added salt to the ice.  We made predictions about what we thought we would happen.  Then we watched....  And guess what?  The cup with the ice and salt melted first!

We haven't just learned about ice and snow!  We also learned about penguins!  Our math and literacy stations had some fun with penguins and snow, too!

 We did penguin subtraction!  We fed our penguins fish and counted how many were left!

 

We also read and illustrated a book about penguins!  We had to draw the correct number of fish!  This was great practice with teen numbers.  

 

We also used our sight word bottles.  We had to match the bottle to the right word!  Inside the bottles were letter beads and we had to unscramble the words!  

 

We also practiced our sight words in other ways!  We picked "snowballs" out of a bucket that had sight words written on them.  We built the world using letter beads and then wrote them on a paper.  If we had time, we rainbow wrote the words!

 

More sight word practice!  We graphed sight words, too!

We have had lots of fun... but we're ready to move on from snow and warm up a bit!