Bunny Art
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Snack
3D Shape Sort
Saturday, April 4, 2015
"Egg-cellent" Easter
We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter on Thursday! We learned about many of the traditional things that people do at Easter such as dying Easter eggs, going on Easter egg hunts, and creating Easter bunny art. We also completed a study of 3D shapes this week. We learned about spheres, cones, cubes, and cylinders. As a culmination to our study, we had the opportunity to sort 3D shapes made out of food. We sorted cheese cubes, chocolate chips, cheese balls, and marshmallows by shape. We had such a great day! We wanted to share some pictures and video from our day with you. Check them out and leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
Discover Dallas--A Visit to Chuck E. Cheese and Reunion Tower
We were so lucky to have the opportunity to visit Chuck E. Cheese and Reunion Tower this week thanks to the generosity of our PTA and our school admissions fund. This adventure provided us with an opportunity to discover a unique building that we have right here in Dallas! We were able to use this experience to revisit our Community Project Based Learning Project and our STEAM tower creation challenge. You can revisit these projects with us on our blog, if you would like to do so.
Here are some pictures and a video from our exciting day!
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Music Around the World Week 2--Africa
We had so much fun in our Music Around the World Class today! We began our morning by reviewing our songs from last week. Ask your child to sing "It's a Small World" and "Kookaburra" for you! We are really working hard to learn the words for these two songs. We also reviewed the song, "La Raspa" from Latin America. We had a great time working on keeping a steady beat, while shaking our maracas or scraping our guiros. Wow do our kids have rhythm! After a quick review, we jumped into learning all about our new country of the day--Africa!
We were introduced to a child from Africa and learned about a day in her life on our Time for Kids website. Then, we were in for a fabulous treat--a visit from a real musician, Mr. Mark! Mr. Mark taught us about some of Africa's favorite instruments--drums! He played several different types of drums for us. We loved them all! Then, we enjoyed some traditional African music from the African Children's Choir. We were so inspired by these musical experiences that we decided to create our own African instruments--drums and shakers. Finally, we learned an African chant and our own rousing rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" complete with African drums and shakers! Here is a show of our morning! Check it out and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below. We have also included some pictures from another great day! We hope that you enjoy them! Today was so much fun! We can't wait until next week! :)
Another Fun Week!
Wow! We have had another fun week in Kindergarten! This week we finished up our positional words study with some interactive fun outside playing positional word games. We reviewed inside/outside, above/below, and over/under. Here is a video of our day. Check it out and leave us a comment to let us know what you thought about our outside games.
Throughout this week, we also finished our math study of two dimensional shapes. We went on a shape hunt around the school and took pictures of circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles that we found in the real world. Then, we created a keynote of our pictures. Here is our show below for you to enjoy. We talked a lot this week about each shape and compared them by looking at their sides and corners. We also created shape fish and shape animals during an exciting art project. We hope you like our pictures of our projects below.
Finally, we completed our science unit on paper by exploring different ways that we could change paper. This included an opportunity to explore paper boxes, paper recycling, and paper/wood creations. We also discussed why it is important to recycle and conserve paper, in order to save our trees. Check out our show of our experiments and pictures from our art projects below.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Music Around the World Week 1--Australia
Welcome to our Music Around the World Club! I am so very excited that your child is joining me in this journey as we travel around the world exploring different countries and their unique music. I have two loves in life—music and children— so I could not be more thrilled to share this experience together with your child. We are going to learn to play instruments and sing songs from different countries. Then, we will share our music with you all on Thursday night, April 30th at 7:00 P.M. Please save this date on your calendar! It is sure to be a night that you will not want to miss! Thank you again for allowing me the privilege to work with your child. I can not wait to share this experience together!
We began our musical tour around the world today by talking about the universal language of music and how it can touch all hearts and help all people. Then, we enjoyed singing "It's a Small World" together before flying around the world to Australia.
The land down under had a lot to offer us! We learned about everything from koala bears to kangaroos and spent a "day in the life" of a boy from Australia on the Time for Kids website. We were also introduced to two of Australia's favorite instruments--bilmas and digeridoos. After listening to one of Australia's traditional songs featuring these instruments, we made our very own bilmas and digeridoos. Boy were they cool too! Finally, we began learning the Australian song that we are going to perform, Kookaburra. It is a silly song that will make you giggle and laugh, while allowing you to soak up the unique sounds of the digeridoos and the bilmas. Here is a show of our first day together. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our first week in Music Around the World!
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