Wednesday, January 30

Canned Food Drive

Our 4th graders are putting on a Canned Food Drive for people in need! This is a competetion between grade levels to see who can bring the most! We can do it, kindergarten!


Tuesday, January 29

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow


 Today we read,  The Jacket I wear in the Snow by: Shirley Neitzel! We made our own hats to go along with the story!

Let it snow....


 If only the weather outside would go along with what we are learning inside. This week we are discussing all aspects of winter! Today we created our house in the winter. We then typed what we know about winter to go along with it! 




Wednesday, January 23

Number Sense!

 This week in our math workshop we are exploring with numbers! We are practicing counting by 10's, finding the area of a 2D object as well as practicing some simple addition.












Happy Chinese New Year!


 Today we learned a little about Chinese New Year. We took a look at how they celebrate and made our own dragon:
 






Friday, January 11

Mentos Experiment

All week we have been predicting and discussing which diet soda would explode the highest if we dropped a packed of mentos in.  Our 4 sodas tested were: 
1. Diet 7 Up
2. Diet Cherry 7 Up 
3. Diet Sunkist
4. Diet Coke 
Experiment in action: 




 Conclusion:

Tuesday, January 8

Zero Rises yet again...

Thank you for all the great goodies, Zero! You're the BEST! Happy 80th day! :)

Monday, January 7

Welcome Back... Jan Brett Style!



 It was so good to see everyone today! I sure had missed those sweet faces! I hope you all had a holiday season full of blessings!


Today, we began an arthur study on Jan Brett. Jan is a best-selling American author/illustrator of children's books.
 
We began with the story , Hedgie Blasts Off.
 
Check out these awesome rockets:








 Each child named his or her rocket and had his or her picture inside.