We had another busy week in Kindergarten! In Literacy Lab, the students participated in many fun learning activities, had our Family Science Night, shared our work with our Preschool Reading Buddies, got to ride bikes/scooters on the playground, did a color mixing experiment & earned another class reward. Take a look below for more details!
In Literacy Lab, we read a Valentine's Day book and other books, sounded out words, made sight words, listened to the story "The Little Red Hen" in the listening area and made puppets to help them retell the story. Ask your child to retell the story for you!
On Thursday we had our Family Science Night full of many fun learning science activities for the students and their families to explore together. I enjoyed seeing some of you there with your families having a great time! Below you can see the 'Tornados" station where you can explore creating a tornado using 2 liter pop bottles, a 'shell sorting' station, and 'fizzy fun' mixing baking soda and vinegar together to see what happens!
I was at the 'Sink and Float' station, thank you for coming to visit me where the students made predictions about which objects would sink or float and experimented. They really enjoyed this!
There was also a 'slide or roll' station which allowed exploration if objects would slide or roll, a 'shadows' stations which used an overhead projector to observe shadows of various objects, and a 'slime' station where the students could create slime!
Some other stations included a 'magnets' exploration, 'color mixing' where the students could explore mixing primary colors together, 'musical instruments' & in the middle of the gym there were science books and seats set up for families to enjoy together.
Finally there were worms! The students really enjoyed investigating these creatures. It was a great night full of many great learning activities. Thank you again to everyone who came!
This week in writing, the students wrote "I can" sentences & "I like" sentences. Below you can see some examples of their writing. Skyler wrote, "I can swim." Elijah wrote, "I can play." Kendra wrote, "I can jump." Tommy said, "I like to play outside." We are working on sounding out words and writing the sounds that we hear, even if the words aren't spelled correctly. They are showing great progress in writing from the beginning of the year!
On Friday, the students shared their writing with their Preschool Reading Buddies.
Since the weather was so nice this week, we were able to get out the scooters and bicycles on the playground for the students to ride. The students practiced waiting in line for their turn since there were so many friends that wanted to ride. They really enjoyed riding them, the line was so long!
After our last color mixing experiment, the students wondered what would happen if we mixed all 3 of the primary colors together. So we did an experiment! The students received a ziploc bag with blue, red, and yellow paint in it and they used their fingers to mix them all together. First we documented what we saw in the bag before we did anything, then the students made their predictions on what they thought would happen. After the experiment was over, the students documented them mixing the colors together and what happened after they did so. We noticed that when we mixed them all together, it made black, they enjoyed this experiment!
This week, the students earned their last buckeye and a class reward. They voted and decided that they would like to have a "Jelly Bean Party" so we will be having that next week!
Thanks for checking in. Have a great week!
Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant
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