Grandparents' Day

In honor of Grandparents' Day, we created some special hand made art projects to share with our families. We made a special decoupage jar of hugs and kisses, a super cute poem with handprint art, and a tissue paper apple.  We also presented a sweet Grandparents' Day Musical Moment for our visitors where we sang some very special songs to our precious grandparents. Our slide show below includes the music that we sang to them today and pictures from our event. We are so very thankful to all of our grandparents who attended! We hope you had a wonderful time! If you were unable to attend, check out our pictures and videos from today. We missed you, and hope that you enjoy our show! Leave us a comment and let us know what you thought of our fun day together!

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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.

Third Week Highlights

We have been studying about our community helpers. First, we began our project based learning unit with an engaging entry event where we used our classroom puppets to act out going to work, earning money, and using our money to buy something that we need. Then, 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.

Hi Ho! Song and Entry Event

Purchasing our needs with our earned money

Meeting our Community Helpers:

Our School Nurse--Nurse Christie

Our Principal--Mr. Grey

Our Firefighter Friends

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Our Police Officer Friends

We made police belts so that we could be police officers too!

When we grow up we want to be...

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. We also took time to share pictures of our families and discuss customs and traditions that we celebrate at home. Finally, we participated in an exciting experiment using food coloring, milk, and dish soap. We learned that scientist are observers and enjoyed seeing the results of our experiment. We also took time to explore some of our science tools such as droppers, clothespins/cups, paper clips for measuring, balances, hand lenses, and magnets. Please enjoy our shows from this week. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

First Week of School 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.  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 2015-2016

I am so excited about our new year in Kindergarten that we have started! The fun has begun, and I can not wait to share all of the interesting things that we have been up to these past two weeks! Meet the Teacher is Thursday night where we will go over our plans for the year and make sure that we have all of our image release forms filled out so that we can go live with our blog for this year! I look forward to seeing you then and can not wait to share our year together with you! :)