Valentine's Day Party

We had a great Valentine's Day Party on Friday afternoon in our classroom
We made valentines during journal time

Made a super cute tissue paper heart craft (thanks again Julie!)

Plus an appearance from "The Box Lady" (Riley, you are truly a RIOT)





100th day of Kindergarten

Well in case you missed the memo, yesterday was our 100th day of kindergarten and we had a WONDERFUL, learning-packed day :-)

We've come to school for 100 days,
The time has just flown by.
Five months, two seasons and we're half way done,
When another surprise does arrive.
It's the 100th day of school today.
Let's start the day with a grin.
For tomorrow will be 101,
So let the celebration begin.

 We started off the morning by making a paper chain that was 100 links long

Next we rotated around to stations set up in our room
putting 100 polka dots on a dalmation dog

reading 100 Hungry Ants

building a tower of 100 dixie cups

using a dice to roll to 100 with a partner
 


For journal time, we wrote about 100 things that we could eat and 100 things we could not!

I can eat 100 swedish fish.

I cannot eat 100 snowmen.

I can eat 100 snowballs.

I cannot eat 100 kindergarteners.

We read Hetty's 100 Hats
Predicted how long 100 seconds was
Colored a 100 picture page

Read Centipede's 100 Shoes

Happy GroundHog Day

well if you missed the big news of the morning, Mr. Punxsutawney Phil

did indeed see his shadow, scaring him back into his hole with a prediction of another six weeks of winter. Want to read the whole story? Phil sees his Shadow

The kids have actually been talking quite a bit about this calendar day in bits and pieces all week. This morning, we were blessed with an hour's time (usually spent in the computer lab but 2nd grade was taking their ISIP assessment) to learn more.

We read Substitute Groundhog were Groundhog is too sick to perform his duties and so he interviews other animals to help him by coming out of his hole on Groundhog Day

Afterwards, we made our own groundhog book (check out your child's folder to see their own personal copy)

This afternoon, when I caught the sun poking out from behind the clouds, we quick went out onto the playground to go shadow hunting