Apples, apples everywhere!

Thank you for sending in an apple with your child this week! We did so many fun things with them...we compared, graphed, measured,wrote about, drew, and tasted them!

Guess who visited us today...

We were so lucky to have this extra special visit! Ask your child what new things they learned about electrical, fire and water safety. Thanks Ms. O!

NRD 2011

Library time

Every Friday K1 visits the fabulous Library!! Today we read this GREAT spin-off nursery rhyme book by two of our favorite Authors and illustrators! If you have time check out more of their wonderful books.

Books by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

First trip to the...

Computer lab! Today we journeyed down to the computer lab and got better acquainted with Technology Toni (our technology teacher) and the 'ins and outs' of the lab. Before we left, she taught us a fun game called "log-on, log-off" where they got to practice their log-in and password and how to log-off, too!

Little Miss Muffett

Today we sang "Little Miss Muffett" approximately 20 times :) They took turns pretending to be LMM and the spider as the rest of us sang along! The great part was the boys enjoyed being LMM even MORE than the girls!

Work on Writing

Yesterday we started the second part of our "Daily 5" called....work on writing! They were introduced to the writing station and all the fun things they can do there!

Nursery rhymes...

Not just for babies :) see the link below for great ideas on things to do at home!

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/14017/utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia

Journal time!

Today we started journaling! We brainstormed topics we can write about in our journals. We decided to write about our families. They did a beautiful job drawing, coloring and labeling their family.

Also today in Math we made this graph...I think this explains why K1 is so fun this year!!

September 12

Today we celebrated America and our freedom! (Can you think of a more perfect day??) We briefly touched on September 11th...I began by asking them what you all have explained to them about that day. We spent a lot of time focusing on our heroes in uniform (and those with without a uniform) and how we are so lucky to have our freedom. After making our AMAZING American flags we paraded around the school, to the flagpole, and then sang our "We are proud to live in America" song and recited our pledge of allegiance.

Catching up...

Sorry for the blog absenses...every second of my day has been filled to the brim! Here's a few things to catch you up on K1 happenings this week!

This week we started our Math Stations Rotations! One group was working on the geo-boards, another was using the pattern blocks to create pictures and the other was creating patterns with objects.

We have been building up our reading stamina! You should be so proud of your Kindergartner...we have built up to reading for a whole 7 minutes!!! This is quite a big Kinder accomplishment!

Last but not least...I finally was blessed with a new computer that doesn't crash every 5 minutes :) let the good times roll.

Who is a scientist?

YES we are! Today we discussed all the things a scientist can do...then we drew a picture of ourselves as a scientist in our new Science Journals!