Nouns

We have been studying nouns this week in Kindergarten. We have learned that a noun is a person, place, or thing. We participated in a movement game where we sorted ourselves into three categories around the room based on what picture we had pulled from a noun pile. Then, our students had the opportunity to go around the school and find items that were nouns. Finally, they we able to move their pictures into a Keynote presentation for you to enjoy here on the blog. Let us know what you think about our show by leaving a comment.  Enjoy our pictures from our movement game, as well.

http://vimeo.com/106736942

Third Week Highlights

We have been studying about our community helpers. We had an opportunity to meet some of our community helpers and learn about their jobs. Check out our pictures of our special guests below! Our students also created a Keynote presentation which shows them dressed up as the community helper that they hope to be in the future.

Finally, we enjoyed a day with our grandparents this week. In honor of Grandparents' Day, we created a slide show which includes the music that we sang to them that day and pictures from our event. We are so very thankful to all of our grandparents who attended! We hope you had a wonderful time!

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Second Week Highlights

We have been working hard this week on our numbers 1-5. We have learned a fun song for each number and have been singing away as we learn to recognize, write, and count using these numbers. We even made our numbers out of playdough. Check out our pictures below! In addition, we have been talking about ourselves and our family. We created avatars that look like ourselves. We then compared our eye color, hair color, etc. and talked about how we are alike and different. Please enjoy our show from this week. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

http://vimeo.com/106082395

First Week Highlights

We had so much fun the first week of school! One of our favorite activities was hunting for the gingerbread man around our school, as we learned about the different locations we could visit here at Watson. We did not catch him, but we did get to enjoy some of his edible friends that he left for us to snack on. We took some time to get to know our new friends and created a slide show of our pictures, once we each had a chance to take our picture using the Ipad2 at recess. We also learned about what it means to be a friend and what it means to be a bully. We created popplets using the Ipad2s to organize our thoughts on what it means to be a friend or a bully. Finally, as a culmination activity at the end of the week, we created a list of our ten favorite things about school. Please take some time and enjoy our projects from this first week. Feel free to leave us a comment and tell us what you think! 

Welcome to Kindergarten 2014-2015

I am excited about a new year together in Kindergarten! What a wonderful first day we enjoyed today! Leave us a comment and tell us some things that you enjoyed on your first day here at Watson!

Happy Summer! :)

Wow! What a fun last day of Kindergarten we had! We celebrated with a popsicle party and a "Happy" Dance! Here is a video that we hope makes you very "Happy!" I also included pictures from our popsicle party. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think. We hope you all have a very Happy Summer! :)

http://vimeo.com/97578104

Slide Show

Here is our end of the year slide show! Wow! What an exciting adventurous year we have had together! I am so very proud of my wonderful Kindergarten class. You have all been such a wonderful blessing to me this year. I wish you the best in First Grade!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99586146/pta1314.mov

Insync Exotics

Thank you so very much for your donations to Insync Exotics. We went this weekend and took these items to them. We also toured their facilities and highly encourage you to go and visit their amazing animals. Here is a show to give you a sneak peek into their unique wildlife refuge. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Dallas Zoo

During the past two weeks our Kindergarten and First Grade students have been hard at work researching endangered animals. Together in small groups, our students learned about panda bears, polar bears, tigers, elephants, gorillas, and sea turtles. They studied ways to help these endangered animals and then created propaganda to help educate others about the needs of these animals. Then, we took to the hallways and advocated for the protection of our endangered animals as we paraded through our school encouraging our Watson family to help save these animals. We also created commercials which our Watson family viewed in support of our cause. Finally, our school family is helping us to raise donations for the Wylie Insync Exotic tiger refuge. We will then donate these items to their facility later this week. After all of our hard work these past two weeks, we had some fun exploring the Dallas Zoo and seeing the animals that we learned about all week in person. You can enjoy our parade, commercials, and zoo show below. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Zoo Parade

Zoo Commercials

Zoo Show
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Rumble in the Jungle

Our Kindergarten students participated in an exciting P.E. program last night! They did a great job! Here is your chance to see them one more time in action. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

http://vimeo.com/95556757

Insects

Here is a fun video of our insect creations that we made during our insect unit! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

http://animoto.com/play/5h84SWYBooA5X4Su4sIMMQ

Muffins for Mom

What a wonderful day we had today celebrating our Moms! Here is a link to view the show that we made with our pictures from our Muffins from Mom event today. I have also included the children's performance so that if you were not able to make it to Muffins for Mom you can see it now! :)

Enjoy!  Happy Mother's Day!

http://animoto.com/play/3abVc0VyfQy42pIddkFgEA

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Buddy Day

Today was so much fun! :)
Buddy Day rocks! Check out our video to see just how much fun we had! :)

Leave us a comment and let us know what you thought!

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Northeast Texas Children's Museum

We recently had the privilege of visiting the Northeast Texas Children's Museum in Commerce, Texas. Watch our show of our fun day! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

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Chuck E. Cheese and A.S.I. Field Trip

We had so much fun on our last field trip! Here is a show from our adventure. Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think! :)

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Egg-cellent Easter

We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter here at school. Here are two shows from our Easter Egg Hunt for you to enjoy. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

http://animoto.com/play/EiVxwjZfcSYpCkMljIG3qg

Bear Day

Here is a show we made on Bear Day! Hope you enjoy it! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

http://animoto.com/play/lNfJuDiUbdE7tdwbl1Abpw

Western Fun Day

Yee Haw! Our cowgirls and cowboys have been hard at work learning about our state symbols and regions. As an exciting final event this week, we celebrated Western Fun Day where we learned a Texas dance, rode on a pony, and enjoyed some real Texas chili. Watch our show below to join in the fun! Let us know what you think by leaving us a comment! Enjoy!

Dr. Suess Day

This week we enjoyed celebrating Dr. Suess's birthday. Here are some fun pictures from our day! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think! :)

http://animoto.com/play/4DMFokyyzqthienkpIL9iQ

Legoland

What a wonderful field trip we had to Legoland. This event culminated our unit on tall towers and bridges. After learning about what a building needs to remain strong and how the parts of a building work together as a system, we traveled to Legoland where we created our own tall towers and tested them on the earthquake tables. Watch our show to see our adventure. Let us know what you think by leaving us a comment!

Under Construction

The week that we studied systems we talked about tall towers, bridges, and nests. We discussed what a building would need to have in order to withstand natural disasters and be a good structure for a home. Here are the towers that our children created in class that week. These towers were the inspiration for our towers that we built at the end of the week at Legoland. We have also included pictures of the bridges that we created and the nests that we made to try to save Humpty Dumpty from cracking when he fell off the wall. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about all of our exciting constructions from the week. 

Amazing Announcements

This week our Kindergarten students are being featured on the announcements. We had the privilege of creating a presentation for Public School Music Appreciation Week where we encouraged our school friends to participate in our "Cookies for Quarters" campaign to benefit the "Find Your Light" foundation created by Josh Groban. Here it is for you to enjoy! Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think!