November News

Check Out all our Cute Classroom Projects in November!

 Turkey Bags
Thanksgiving Number Stories
We are thankful for eachother! 

 Handpainted Turkeys
Fill in the Blank Poems

 Ss is for Scarecrows & 
Rainbow Writing Names on Turkey Feathers

Symmetrical Turkeys

Ecology Bus

Every year we are lucky enough to have the ecology bus come to our school to help us learn more about the animals that we have been learning in our reading and science units! They discuss different animal habitats, families, and what different animals need to survive. The students are always amazed at what they bring in and what they have to share! 
Here are a few snapshots from our day!

Book Character Day!

Every month we celebrate those students who have read or been read to for at least 400 minutes or more at home. As a school we have a 400 Club Celebration. This month, we had Book Character Day! It was so much fun seeing the students excited about their favorite book characters! Here are a few snapshots of the day! 

What to know what's up next? Here's a list of our 400 club days! 

December 5th:  Pajama Day

January 9th:  Grade Colors (more to come)

February 6th: Neon Day

March 6th:  Sports wear

April 3rd:   Hat Day

May 1st:  Wacky Hair 

May 29th:  Twin/Triplet/Quadruplet Day

Macaroni Necklaces

 We have been working on patterns a lot in kindergarten. We work on recognizing patterns, extending patterns, and creating our own. Today we got to make noodle necklaces! We used ABABAB patterns or ABCABC patterns. They turned out great and the students loved making them! Check out our hard work! 

Birthday Graphs

This week in Math we learned about how to read simple graphs - both vertical and horizontal. So as a class we created a vertical and horizontal graph using our birthdays and our age. Then we wrote down our results. Then as a class we asked questions about our graph. 

• Is there more 5 year old or more 6 year olds?
• How many more 5 year olds are there than 6 year olds?
• How many birthdays are in November & December combined? 
• Which month had the least amount of birthdays?

They did amazing answering all the questions and even creating their own questions! Check out our results and I hope you had a chance to look at your child's graph that they brought home. 

Apples, Apples, Apples

We just completed Apple Week! It was such an awesome week filled with lots of yummy taste testing, apple snacks, creative projects, and apple writing! Take a look at all our work!

We made this fun apple project! We used our hands as scissors for the apple bites! And they each cut out their own apple design and apple color! The poem reads: ________ likes apples. Munch, Munch, Munch! _______likes apple. Crunch, Crunch, Crunch!

This was a great writing project! The kids had to retrace or some even rewrote the words to our poem "10 Red Apples!" Then they traced their own hands and dipped their finger in red paint to create 10 red apples! At the end they decorated their apples with stems and leaves!

We also did some free writing about apples this week! They used the sentence starter: Apples are ______. Some students came up with over 5 sentences. And they all wrote the sounds they heard in each word! This is something we are really working on right now and they will continue to get better at, as they learn more sounds this year! Amazing work!

Here were some example sentences: 

Apples are big. 

Apples are smol. (small)

Apples are joose. (juicy)

Apples are red. 

Apples are oosum. (awesome)

Apple are on chrebs. (trees)

Animal Families

This week their writing project was to create an Animal ABC Book. They were all given an animal family and then had to illustrate that animal as an adult and as a baby. Look at just a few of our results! We've been working very hard on adding details to our drawings!