Fun Run! :)

What a fun day we had running in our school's Fun Run! With each lap that we ran, we earned money for our school, which we plan to use to finish our library renovations, fund our field trips, and pay for our MacBook covers! After the Fun Run, we enjoyed our movie reward and popsicle party. These are the prizes that we won from our fundraising efforts. Here is an exciting video from our day! Check out how much fun we had and leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

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Top Fundraisers gave our Boosterthon Team a "pie in the face"

Movie Reward

Popsicle Party! :)

Awards Ceremony

We were so excited to celebrate our Fourth Six Weeks award winners at our fourth awards ceremony. Miss Todd is so proud of all of our award winners, and the hard work that they have shown this six weeks! Here are some pictures from our celebration. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

Perfect Attendance

Top Cat, Radical Reader, Math Mastermind, and Wonderful Writer

Kindergarten King and Queen

Red Hot Reader--Top AR points in the entire grade level

AR Trophy Winner--Most AR points in the entire grade level

Music Around the World--Session 2--Week 7--Find Your Light Foundation Service Project

Wow! What an exciting day we had today at our seventh afternoon of our Music Around the World Class! We began our day by reviewing some of our favorite songs, "It's a Small World", "Kye Kye Kule", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Then, we learned our theme song for our Find Your Light service project, "Shine On". This is a song that was placed on Miss Todd's heart the first year of our service project. In addition to enjoying our Music Around the World class, we have partnered with Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation to add an opportunity to serve others in our world. We are helping to raise funds for public schools around the world who might not have the music or instruments that we are lucky enough to have here at Watson. At all of our music events, we are selling "Cookies for Quarters" to benefit this fund. We will also be selling a dvd of our Music Around the World show in May. All of the money that we raise will go to Find Your Light Foundation at the end of the year and be used to add wonderful musical experiences to the lives of children around the world. You can see our service project featured on Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation Facebook page or his Find Your Light Foundation website right now! Here is a link to both pages:  

                Find Your Light Foundation Facebook Page    https://www.facebook.com/findyourlightfoundation/videos/1324950070896695/

Find Your Light Foundation Website

http://fylf.org/2015/06/kindergartners-leading-the-way/

Please check it out and let us know what you think about our service project!

Don't forget to join us on Thursday night, May 10th at 7:00 P.M. for our presentation of our Music Around the World Celebration Night! You are going to enjoy seeing all of the instruments that we have created and songs that we have learned on our musical journey around the world!

Here are some pictures from our class today and a video for you to enjoy! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our fun day!

https://vimeo.com/259417981

Motion and Math

In science this week, we studied motion. We learned how motion is the way that objects can move. We begin this exciting study with an exploration of marbles where we learned that items can move in a straight line, back and forth, round and round, in a zigzag, and up and down. Then, we had an opportunity to explain these different motions by practicing these motions with streamers. Finally, we experimented with building our own paper airplanes and seeing how we could make them move. We also spent some time exploring ramps and how they can make an object move faster. Here is a video of our exciting explorations. We hope you enjoy the show! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!
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In math, we have been working hard to solve addition problems, using model drawing. This is the math program that they use in Singapore. Research has shown it to be very effective. Model drawing is a way for children to not only solve a story problem but to be able to prove why the answer is true. In order for our students to have a solid foundation in number sense, we find the ability to fully explain your reasoning behind your answer to be a very important skill. Model drawing allows our students the opportunity to practice doing this. Below you can see how we were able to solve problems that we created on our own using the model drawing strategies. 

Music Around the World--Session 2--Week 6--South America

What an exciting day we had at our Music Around the World Club today! We learned all about South America and one of their favorite instruments--the rainstick. After exploring some of the special places you can visit in Brazil, we were able to learn about a day in the life of a boy from Brazil. We also saw some of the different ways that you can make a rainstick. We enjoyed learning about the rainstick so much that we decided to make our very own rainstick. Then, we had the privilege of singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with our new instruments. We also reviewed two of our favorite songs, "La Raspa" and "You Are my Sunshine." We had such a fabulous day and can not wait until next week! Here are some pictures and a video from our exciting day! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

https://vimeo.com/258378126