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

Flow Maps of Your Job--Earning Money---and Spending Money on your Needs

Meeting our Community Helpers:

Our School Nurse--Nurse Christie

Our Principal--Mr. Grey

Our Firefighter Friends

Our Police Officer Friends

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

When we grow up we want to be...

We have also 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!

Second Week Highlights

During our math unit on shapes, our Kindergarten students enjoyed a poem about a Shape Monster.  They liked it so much that we decided to create our own shape monsters! They had the opportunity to invent their own shape monster using art supplies. Check out their unique shape monsters below! In addition, we have been talking about ourselves and our family. We created avatars that look like ourselves using the WeeMee app. You can see them in the show we created below. We then compared our eye color, hair color, etc. and talked about how we are alike and different. 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! 

First Day of School

Gingerbread Hunt Videos and Pictures

Kindergarten 2016-2017

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 three weeks! We are in the process of making 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 sharing our year together and can not wait for you to see what we have been up to! :)

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!" We 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! :)