Hippity Hoppity, Easter's on its Way

It is our last day of school before Easter break and our classroom has been full of holiday activities. This morning we dyed Easter eggs during morming literacy centers. The kids had a bunch of fun & I don't think we got "too awful" messy! haha

our finished product

Easter Activities

What a great celebration our class had for Easter
We had a great morning of Easter activities :-)

Miss Bergan played a game "Find the Chick" (sight word practice)



Miss Miller had the students create bunny ears headbands

Lily & Luke

 

and they dyed Easter eggs at the table with me :-)

Hunter and Myleigh

Marissa, Levi, and Trai

Josue & Issac

Overall, it was such a fun day! We ended with an Easter Egg relay race

Xander

Gavin



On Thursday, we had an Easter egg hunt outside (thank you to the 5th grade students who helped us hide 190 eggs!)

"Oh your mark, get set, go!"

Riley

Dr. Seuss

Yes, I am definitely a week late in wishing Dr. Seuss a "Happy Birthday". At least we aren't celebrating the day a week late at our school.
Last Friday, our students (in the whole school) got to rotate around to the different classrooms to particiapte in listening to stories, fun activities, and visiting Seussville in the computer lab in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday! (If he was still alive he would be 108)

tracing then cutting out our handprints to create a giant tree

Miss Neil reading All About Seeds

the kids visiting Seussville

inspecting our seeds to get ready to plant them

Mrs. Johnson reading I can name 50 trees!

Mrs. Bowman reading The Lorax in the 1st grade classroom

A truffula of trees

(each leaf states about a way to help the earth or a way to show kindness to someone at New Franklin) 

our tree made out of the whole school's handprints

In our own kindergarten classroom, we did a little more celebrating

Riley wanted to try on my Dr. Seuss hat



Even Kinder Bear joined in on the celebration

Mrs. Connie Kelly came into our classroom as a guest reader from the Rotary Club and read There's a Wocket in my Pocket

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



I have a dream

All week our kindergarten class has been learning about Martin Luther King Jr.

• We listened to a book called Young Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream
• We read a little paperbook during guided reading about Martin Luther (complete with circling words from our word wall and locating his name throughout the text)
• We created portraits of Martin

• We listened to another book entitled Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr
• We watch a short video on his life and famous speech

And we wrote a speech about our dreams are:
(here is what a few of the kids wrote)
Ezra: "My dream is that all trash is picked up."
Gavin: "My dream is that I don't get bit by a shark."
Kamden: "My dream is that I spend time with my mom and dad."
Dakota: "Me and Luke are superheroes." 
Adrianne: "I don't have to go to the doctor anymore." 
Sophia: "I wish that Martin Luther King Jr. did not die." 
 Clara: "My dream is that everybody would love each other."