Geology Unit

Just a few pictures from our study of rocks!

Subtraction game

Pattern center

Counting the room

Digging for sight words

Examine the rocks from our class "rock museum"

We combined minerals and hot lava to make a delicious rock!

Yum!

Volcanos!

Fun at the zoo:

Practicing comparing lengths and finding the difference:

So much fun!!

:) Mrs. Rogers

Fractions, recycling, and being green

Hi parents!

We've been working hard with fractions and have practiced with halves and quarters!!

Fraction pizzas were so much fun!

We also did an experiment to learn about how tires are recycled.

(Crushing our "tires")

Some more Earth Day fun:

We edited our fiction stories last week and started a poetry unit!!

(Editing her story)

I love how they are already trying to use some of the ideas from our poetry anchor chart, so cute!!

Frogs, St Patrick's Day and plants

Wow!  Kindergarten is just racing right past us!  Here are a few pictures from our frog, St Patricks Day, and plant units:

Subtracting "flies"

Measuring frog jumps

Making 10 memory

Adding leprechaun gold

Trying to figure out the secret code sight words 

We worked on cause and effect with an Easter story and will go back to this chart next week for more practice

How does the water get into the leaves? Experiment

Pollination experiment (they loved this!!)

Roll a CVC word

Looking for hidden sight words

Making words with blends

In math we have spent time the past few weeks playing games help us practice place value, subtract, and add.  Today we started talking about fractions!

Last, in reading we are learning a different way to explain our decoding strategies:

More fractions and recycling next week (plus a super cool recycling experiment tomorrow)!!

President's Day and Dr Seuss

Here are some pictures from our last two units!

Making inferences with Abe Lincoln.

Counting dimes

Adding

Measuring flags

Graphing blends

Unscrambling sentences

Making antonyms after we read The Foot Book

Counting money

Measurement

Counting and practices tallies and ten frames

Subtracting Truffula Trees :(

Also, I got to meet Jack Hartmann at the Kindergarten conference, we LOOOOOVE his songs!!!

My next post will be about frogs, making tens and ones, fiction writing, and our St Patricks Day and frog centers!!!