We got to school on Monday, looked at our science center and saw some sprouts in the pea garden! Blake hurried over telling us "the peas worked!!" They were an inch tall which was sweet! Today we returned and they were 4 inches high. Marley really wanted to water them but they are still really wet so we will wait. We started making pictures of how they look to keep track of their progress. Then I asked Noah to check his bean which is hanging in a ziplock back with wet paper towels and his bean plant was 7 inches tall. Why are they growing? Water, sunshine were two answers we know. One of Matt's beans is all soggy and not growing and we will try to figure out why. The discussion at snack time started with eating the peas when they are grown up. I don't think we will make it to that stage at school but maybe we can send a few home for the summer if they keep growing.
Friday we are going on a walk to the Farm Market to collect blossoms and get some plants for the planters in front of the school. We could use a wagon to bring the flowers back to school. I sent a note about the field trips for May.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
DCSgradeK: Day 55
DCSgradeK: Day 55: We had a fine time at Friday's Dinosaur Dance. It was great that you could all join us. I have never seen a better Dinosaur Dance!! The k...
Monday, February 6, 2012
Day 55
We had a fine time at Friday's Dinosaur Dance. It was great that you could all join us. I have never seen a better Dinosaur Dance!! The kids were totally into dinosaurs last week and we learned alot together. The dinosaur books we read were a huge hit and making the dinosaur exhibit was so much fun.
We don't forget for long what, though that we are learning about blending d with other letters and we continue to use everyday words to tell about what we learn. All of us read an easy reader to Mrs B last week and are all carrying new library books in our yellow folders.
Today we were introduced to a new letter light- Letter Light U. Since she likes to go up up up more and more it is only logical that she would help us study about our solar system. We spent the day investigating the planets in our solar system. We also studied a painting, A Paris Street, Rainy Day and wrote about it and made a rainy wet painting. It is always fun to hear what the kids have to say about something new like a painting by an artist. We will put our descriptions on our own paintings for you to see.
We sure have alot of humor in our room! News flash- they listen the best when I try it on them. They keep me on my toes and I can keep them on their toes. We are having a fine year together and they are like little wiggly sponges! Now its time for another nap!!
We don't forget for long what, though that we are learning about blending d with other letters and we continue to use everyday words to tell about what we learn. All of us read an easy reader to Mrs B last week and are all carrying new library books in our yellow folders.
Today we were introduced to a new letter light- Letter Light U. Since she likes to go up up up more and more it is only logical that she would help us study about our solar system. We spent the day investigating the planets in our solar system. We also studied a painting, A Paris Street, Rainy Day and wrote about it and made a rainy wet painting. It is always fun to hear what the kids have to say about something new like a painting by an artist. We will put our descriptions on our own paintings for you to see.
We sure have alot of humor in our room! News flash- they listen the best when I try it on them. They keep me on my toes and I can keep them on their toes. We are having a fine year together and they are like little wiggly sponges! Now its time for another nap!!
DCSgradeK: letsfindout
DCSgradeK: letsfindout: Now let's see if we can keep track of those kindergarteners. Day 6 was Friday, Sept 16, the day of our Signs neighborhood walk. You receiv...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Day 52
We are so excited about our week with Dancing Dinosaur Mr. D!! We are playing games with dinosaurs, sorting them into meat eaters and plant eaters in the Dinosaur Museum, practicing a dinosaur dance, looking at many books about dinosaurs, and writing stories about dinosaurs.
Speaking of stories, we had our own Blake reading about the vehicles in Cars to us first thing this morning! It was very exciting to hear him and without knowing it, he introduced us to our next Science unit on How Things Move. We are busy playing dinosaur this week. Marcos has discovered that there are skeletons on our floor of dinosaurs and he pretends with the small dinosaurs. I think he must be a paleontologist, since he is studying dinosaurs skeletons. We all had a great time today hearing the story, Can We Have a Stegasaurus? Mom, Can We? Please? Then we started to write a sequel to it and will finish on Friday. I want to know what Mom is going to say! We are working hard to understand stories by their pictures and content. I hope we can figure out what Mom's answer to the boy's question in the stories. Then we can publish it and send it home for you to read. They are very excited about writing their own words to go with the story.
We are now practicing adding numbers that equal 5. We had a nice visit with Mary of the Dearborn Public Schools who helped Mrs. B to decide how to use the Touch Points on numbers to help us learn to add. It helps to have a little advice once in a while. Sue B signing out.
Speaking of stories, we had our own Blake reading about the vehicles in Cars to us first thing this morning! It was very exciting to hear him and without knowing it, he introduced us to our next Science unit on How Things Move. We are busy playing dinosaur this week. Marcos has discovered that there are skeletons on our floor of dinosaurs and he pretends with the small dinosaurs. I think he must be a paleontologist, since he is studying dinosaurs skeletons. We all had a great time today hearing the story, Can We Have a Stegasaurus? Mom, Can We? Please? Then we started to write a sequel to it and will finish on Friday. I want to know what Mom is going to say! We are working hard to understand stories by their pictures and content. I hope we can figure out what Mom's answer to the boy's question in the stories. Then we can publish it and send it home for you to read. They are very excited about writing their own words to go with the story.
We are now practicing adding numbers that equal 5. We had a nice visit with Mary of the Dearborn Public Schools who helped Mrs. B to decide how to use the Touch Points on numbers to help us learn to add. It helps to have a little advice once in a while. Sue B signing out.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Day 50
We celebrated 50 days of school on Wednesday. We had a very special guest come in to help us celebrate. She is Grama Zero. She brought two special books along about snow. Did you know that a snowball looks like a zero? She told us a story about building a snow family with lots of fun stuff. The author's name is Lois Englert!! Is she any relation to Blake???
Grama Zero said she can come back on Fridays and read to us and listen to us tell our stories. That will be so much fun. That way Mrs. B can listen to us on other days and Grama Zero can hear us read on Fridays!
Did you notice that the kids brought home a couple very easy books from Mr I and Ms S? I hope they are reading them to you because practicing is sooooo gooooood for us!!
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