Friday, October 11, 2024

Transportation Projects

 After studying our community, we thought that it would be fun to create our own new mode of transportation. As a home-school connection, our Kindergarten students made a new transportation vehicle at home and then presented them at school. Wow! Our Kindergarten students are so very creative. Here are some pictures we took to showcase their hard work. We hope you like it! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!






















Classroom Community

  Our Kindergarten students and teachers are so very proud of the amazing classroom communities that our children built. During this class project based learning activity, our students learned that our community needed all different kinds of places, people, and things. We created five different categories of buildings that we needed. There were buildings for communication, safety, entertainment, health, and travel. Our students then chose a building that they thought was important and created it for our community. Then, we made a video on our iPads telling why that building was important to our community. Then, our Kindergarten families came to school and enjoyed our Classroom Communities with our Kindergartners. Here are our classroom community shows. We hope you enjoy them! Leave us a message and tell us what you think!


Classroom Community PBL Lunch and Learn

Classroom Buildings--Todd

Classroom Buildings--Mendoza

Classroom Buildings--Regan

Building Our Community




























Float Your Boat

    This week we learned about Christopher Columbus. We studied about his contributions to our history and the many explorations he led. Then, we enjoyed an exciting STEAM opportunity where we created our own boats out of recyclable materials and tested them to see if they would float. Check out our amazing boats and a video of them in action:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3ZsZUl85rmlmjhEGCjsupXx3gBqRULa/view?usp=sharing









Monday, September 30, 2024

Music Around the World--A Christmas Edition--Week 2--Africa

   We had so much fun in our Music Around the World Class on Friday! We began our morning by reviewing our songs from last week. Ask your child to sing "Mele Kalikimaka" and "Roo, Roo the Kangaroo" for you! We are really working hard to learn the words for these two songs.  After a quick review, we jumped into learning all about our new country of the day--Africa!


We were introduced to some special places from Africa and learned about animals and instruments that are unique to this country. 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, shakers, and tamborines. Finally, we learned our own rousing rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" complete with African drums, shakers, and tamborines! 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! :)