Happy Spring!

We have enjoyed the last two weeks celebrating St. Patrick's Day, Spring and Easter.  The students read a nonfiction magazine about rainbows and then painted a rainbow.  The following day, they added a leprechaun and speech bubble to the rainbow.  A leprechaun visited our classroom and traded all our pencils for green markers.  Later in the day, he returned and left treasure for us.

We read the story Duck! Rabbit! and decided for ourselves if the picture was a duck or a rabbit.  We are "hatching" a mystery egg.  We each got a Mystery Egg journal and made a prediction about what was inside.  We put the egg in water and now we are watching it closely to see what hatches.

In Readers Workshop, we finished up our Nonfiction Unit.  We are now experts at deciding whether a book is fiction or nonfiction.  We can decide what the author wants us to learn about.  In celebration, we read a recipe for Alligator Pie and made it.

In Math, we continue to decompose teen numbers into groups of ten and some more.  We know that Teen Numbers Start With A One and Teen Numbers Have A Group of Ten from songs that we sing.  

Next week we are celebrating reading with Read Across America.  On Monday, we will see a performance of Alice in Wonderland.  It is dress like a twin day.  On Tuesday, we will dress like royalty.  On Wednesday, we will have celebrity readers and dress wild and crazy like the Mad Hatter.  On Thursday, we will have a pajama tea party.  On Friday, we will dress like our favorite Alice in Wonderland character.  Also, students can decorate a potato to look like a character from Alice in Wonderland.  

       

 

Welcome to the Zoo!

This week we "visited" the zoo by reading lots of nonfiction books about zoo animals.  We made gorillas and giraffes.  We compared zebras and giraffes.  Finally, we finished the week by making our own zoo maps.


    

We are finishing up counting objects to 20.  We are getting really great at matching our counts to the objects.

In Readers Workshop, we have been reading nonfiction books.  We are looking at text features and the jobs of the author and the illustrator.  We are able to decide what the book is going to be about by looking at the cover and title.  We are also talking about new information we have learned from reading the book.

Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss!

This week we got tongue tied reading Dr. Seuss books.  We practiced our rhymes, tried green eggs and ham, and got presents.  Some of the Dr. Seuss books we read include:

                            

In Readers Workshop, we are learning about Nonfiction books.  We are able to identify nonfiction v. fiction books, decide what the author is teaching us about, locate new information, and give a nonfiction book a new name.  I found a great series of nonfiction books at Barnes and Noble.  They are written at a kindergarten level and have great photographs.  We have read the following:

       

In Math, we are learning to count and write numbers to 20.  We are recognizing that teen numbers have a group of ten and some more.

Thanks for all your support!  We are learning so much in kindergarten, and I know you are encouraging your child at home!