Potato Races Commence!

This week in language arts, we read a story called, "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato" by Tomie dePaola.  We dramatized the story as a class & had a lot of laughs doing it.  Then, we used our imaginations to decide what we would do if we found a big potato in our backyard.

To finish the week off right, we divided into teams and made our own ramps.  Next, each of us hypothesized whether "Potato #1" or "Potato #2" would win the most races.  Lastly, we took turns racing our potato races.  Some potatoes rolled farther and faster than others, but in the end, we decided that the process of rolling the potatoes was a fun science experiment.

 

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

On Dr. Seuss's birthday, we read a variety of books that he wrote for children.  We also talked about the fact that Dr. Seuss loved to use silly words in his stories as well as a bunch of rhyming words!  We made up some of our own silly words & played a game with rhyming words.  Then, we went to the computer lab for further exploration of of his books.  

Our computer specialist taught us how to use some cool, hand-held devices that enabled us to vote on our favorite Dr. Seuss stories & characters.  It was really exciting to see how our opinions compared to those of our classmates.  Lastly, we decided that it would be fun to try Dr. Seuss's famous food dish, green eggs & ham.  Although some of us were skeptical at first, most of us enjoyed our tasty snack. 

 

 

Shadow Exploration!

We had fun exploring with light to see if we could make our own shadows around the room.  During our integrated science/social studies/language arts block we read some books about shadows and even guessed if our shadows would be larger or smaller than various objects.  We chased our friends'  shadows on the playground, we measured our own shadows in the classroom and then we created new shadows with our fingers and stick puppets.  Who knew that learning could be so much fun?

 

 

 

The 100th Day of School!

We made it!  We have been in school for 100 days of Kindergarten learning!  We had so much fun celebrating all of our accomplishments and learning more about numbers from 0 to 100.  We had 100 minutes of learning centers, we ate 100 snacks and even had a small taste of 100th day cookie cake!

100^th Day of School Learning Centers and Activities

• We counted to 100 by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s.
• We did 100 exercises.
• We ate 100 snacks & a piece of a 100 Day Cookie Cake.
• We read 100^th day of school, picture books.
• We displayed our 100^th day projects.
• We wrote about what we would do with $100.00.
• We completed a mystery picture:  100 shape on a 100 chart.
• We played a dice game, racing to 100.
• We made a 100^th day hat.
• We made a STEM creation with 100 marshmallows & 100 toothpicks.
• We  made hypotheses & estimations of how many objects were in a jar.
• We made a picture of what we would look like when we are 100 years old.
• We wrote 100 words & stamped 100 gum balls.
• We created a necklace with 100 Fruit Loops or Apple Jacks cereal pieces.
• We played hopscotch, counting by 10’s to 100.