We had fun last week with our first set of color words! We brainstormed things of the color of the day as well as shared some of our toys. This week, we have a whole new set of words to learn!

Welcome to Kindergarten! 2013-2014

We are so excited for our new school year! I will update this blog weekly as much as possible so keep checking for any new posts. I will take lots of pictures of the students at work so that you can get a little glimpse into our classroom. Enjoy!

Here are some pictures of us doing the 5 Little Bugs song. We each got to be a fly or a frog and sang the song together. The kids loved it!

Here we are having fun making our names with various letters. We are using Scrabble tiles, stringing our names with letter beads, connecting Unifix cubes with letters on them, and using magnetic letters.

Subtraction Fun!

We played a great subtraction game that you could try at home! Two players have 10 frogs or other objects lined up. One partner closes his/her eyes while the other takes a cup and hides some of the objects under the cup. The other player opens their eyes and figures out how many are hiding and then figures out what subtraction problem they would use to explain how many objects were hiding. They loved it!

Acrostic Poems

We learned about acrostic poems and as table groups, we wrote our own Spring acrostic poem. They had so much fun brainstorming words to describe Spring and even looked in the classroom dictionary for help!

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Sci-Fri Color Changing Flowers

On Friday, the Kindergarten class had another colorful, spring Sci-Fri experiment.  We used white carnations, food coloring and clear plastic cups.  Then, we made predictions to see what was going to happen if we put food coloring in the water and let the flowers sit in the colored water over the weekend.  When we came into school this morning, we had quite a surprise, the white carnations weren't as white anymore! Today, we finished our conclusions where we saw that adding food color to the white turned the flowers the color of the water.  We also put in a tricky part to our experiment and one of the carnations had a broken stem, so we still put the food coloring in the water to see what was going to happen, and the broken stem did not change the results, the students were amazed!!

Here are some pictures from our experiment on Friday:

Here are the results from our experiment after the weekend on Monday: