Today in Language Centers,

we practiced our Sight Words 

in several of different ways...

Sight Word Dominoes

Magnetic Letters

Memory Match

"Concentration"

Ink Stamping

This Wednesday, we visited our 

Life Science Classroom

for the first time this year!

Each student got to plant his/her own pumpkin seed!

They will get to watch them grow by visiting them in the greenhouse.

Taylor, Keaton, Emma, and Malia

Libby, Brock, and Joshua

Zoey, Sam, Baylie, and Anna

Wyatt, Newt, Daphne, and David

Mrs. Rall walked us through our planting then made sure each seed got enough water.

Introducing…

Marvelous Joshua!!

Joshua is our first Marvelous Me of the school year, and he sure started us off great!  Joshua brought a poster to show us a little more about himself.

Joshua loves his mom & dad, 2 brothers and his baby sister!  Joshua likes soccer and football and likes to snack on Oreos and Milano cookies.  Joshua has lots of cousins that he likes to spend time with.  Joshua is a native Texan and loves swimming, Spider Man, and Cars, the movie!

We were so lucky to have Dr. Ayo, Joshua's dad, come speak to us today about his job.  He talked to us about hospitals and his job as a lung doctor. 

He let us ask questions... 

…and let Emma listen to Joshua's heart & breathing with a real stethoscope! 

Joshua and his dad brought each child a doctor's kit to take home!  What a treat!  

Thank you Ayo family for a great morning!

We appreciate your time and generosity!  

Kindergarten is not all work…

we have lots of fun, too!!

Here are some pictures of us during center time!

Newt - Dramatic Play Center

Emma, Sam, Joshua, & Wyatt - iPads

Anna, Zoey, Malia, Daphne, & Libby - Games Center

Keaton & Brock - Blocks Center

Taylor & David - Sand Center

Joshua - Dramatic Play Center

Taylor - Dramatic Play Center

(He turned a purse into a mask!!)

Baylie - Sand Center

In Science, we've been learning about 

Science Tools!

We learned about…

magnifying glasses, rulers, balances, funnels, and more!

Take a look at us exploring the classroom!

Anna & Zoey

Newt

Daphne 

Anna & Wyatt

Emma

Malia

Libby

Baylie

Taylor & David

"Get to Know You" bags 

were a lot of fun this week!

We learned lots of great things about our classmates like…

favorite sports, snacks, colors, books, places, schools, toys, pets, families, and much, much more!

Take a look below at all of our treasures!

Mrs. Tenery

Daphne

Zoey

Baylie

Libby

Anna

Malia

Emma

Newt

Joshua

David

Taylor

Sam

Wyatt

Keaton

Brock

Wednesday in class we did a Visual Thinking Strategy with the piece of art below.  

(Sorry the picture isn't great…I took the picture of the piece projected onto the SMART board.)

I then lead them in a discussion based on the following questions:

1.  What's going on in the picture?

2. What do you see that makes you say that?

3.  What more can we find?

They all did a great job and really concentrated to find many little details in the picture.

Here's an example,

Student - "I see a tiger fish."

Teacher - "What do you see that makes you say that?"

Student - "The fish has stripes like a tiger."

This is something you all can try at home.

You will be amazed what they see!

There is not a wrong answer!

Tuesday in class we read the book

Chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum is a little girl who thought her name was "absolutely perfect" until she went to school and all the kids made fun of her.  

We talked about how unkind words can "wrinkle" someone's heart.  We also talked about how kind words can fix those wrinkles, but the wrinkles will never completely go away.  The class brainstormed kind things to say to help Chrysanthemum's heart feel better.  Below is a picture of what we did in class together.

Hopefully this was a tangible lesson for the kids to "see" the effects that kind and unkind words can have on a friend's heart.

We also did a graphing lesson about names to go along with the story.  The students had to find the letters of their names in a pile of letters then graph them in order on our classroom name graph.  We discussed "most", "least", "equal", and "how many more/less".  They all did a great job!