More Farm Fun!

Hello!

We had another short week last week but still managed to squeeze in some time to work on some farm activities and had a great time working on our centers!!  We will be spending one more week on farms, learning about cows, before turning our learning to bats!!

Some of our centers from this week:

Computer Center working on Starfall.com

"Hatching" dice from eggs to practice one-to-one correspondence and subitizing.

Reading at the poetry center (more one-to-one)

Writing about farms!!

Working on letter recognition and formation at the overheard center :)  (This one is a favorite, thanks Deedee Wills!)

We made these pig glyphs in math this week.  They helped us work on our fine motor skills, directions following, and analyzing data!! (Here is the link for this cutie from a fantastic TPT seller!)

We created these farms, along with a short writing piece to show what we had learned about farm animals.

We worked on identifying short vowel sounds with this game during small groups this week.

We read the book the midnight farm and then created our own farm to practice one-to-one correspondence and number writing!!

We have one more week of farms, lots more fun to have!  :) Mrs. Rogers

Fun on the Farm!

We had a great time learning about farms this week and a lot of fun Friday at the Eagle's Nest Walk-a-Thon!!  Here's a peak at our week :)

We read this story and it inspired a lot of learning!!

We made mud (just like Mrs. Wishy Washy's muddy animals!!) and recorded our observations.

Graphing our likes and dislikes.  (This was from First Grade Blue Skies and free!!!)

We created these story retelling props to retell the story.   (This came from makinglearningfun.com)

We continued working on our Eric Carle projects in art.  We traced farm animals onto our painted paper and will be creating scenes for them next week.

Introducing and practicing syllables (getting ready for farm centers!!)

Practicing sight words.  This will also be a centers next week!

We explored with our five senses for the first time using an ear of corn.

Practicing more complex patterns (AAB, ABB, ABC with farm animals)

We will be continuing farms for another two weeks, with one week focusing on cows.  Ms. K and I are very excited for the rest of this unit.  Just a reminder, on 10/11 my newsletter will only be posted as a Google Doc on the blog :)

Newsletter 9/30


Teachers- Many of the activities on here will be up in my TPT store this week.  I will have a Farm: Science, Math, and Literacy Pack and a Farm Centers Pack.  Check me out on TPT!

Apple Part 2

We had a GREAT week this week!!  We are settling into a routine and are working very hard :)  We continued to study apples this week and reviewed lots of math skills.

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We created tree maps to record what we had learned about Johnny Appleseed.

We began working on our apple centers.  We are reviewing a lot of skills like counting, 1 to 1 correspondence, and number formation.  These activities can be found in my Awesome Apple Centers Pack :)

We read lots of books to learn about the life cycle of an apple and then created these to demonstrate what we had learned!!  (This is based on an activity from Deanna Jump)

This activity helped us practice following directions, color words, number words, one to one correspondence, and concept of a word.  (This was an awesome freebie from TPT!!)

Experimenting and observing the change of apples left in juice all day and apples left out in the air.  We were already seeing differences Friday afternoon and will check back Monday!!

This activity helped us to review number ordering and number recognition skills.  We did a GREAT job and are ready to start working on our teen numbers!!

Labeling the parts of an apple.  We also practices figuring out words based on their context and the first letter of the word.

Art was SO FUN on Friday!!  We started a project based on the word of illustrator Eric Carle!!  We created paper in the style of Eric Carle this week and will be finishing the project next week.

:) Mrs. Rogers

Testing My Google Doc Abilities

This post is a test to see if my newsletter google doc uploads correctly.

Kindergarten Newsletter 9/13

Awesome Apples!

Hello!!

We had a great week in Kindergarten!!  We were so very busy, had our first day in library, and had our first fire drill!! This week our theme was apples (and will be next week as well).  We learned about different kinds of apples, read apple stories, and learned a little bit about Johnny Appleseed.  We spent a lot of time this week practicing our fine motor skills as well.

We practiced our numbers and then made these fun apples!!

In art, we made cross collages celebrating all the blessings Jesus has given us.  (Not tied in with the theme, but still really fun!)

We had a great time taste testing different kinds of apples.  Then we graphed, tallied, and analyzed the data!!

I don't know why this is upside down but this was a great activity for practicing glue skills from Caitlin Clabby.

We worked on our fine motor skills bobbing for apples with tweezers, then practiced some number writing with the apple we nabbed.

We worked on responding to literature (like the story, "Up, Up, Up!  It's Apple Picking Time") in our apple journals.

We also learned how to use our poetry binders this week and work at the poetry center.  Look for our poetry binders to come home on Friday!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!!  :) Mrs. Rogers