New Classroom Holiday Bulletin Board

December Math Activities

We have been learning numbers 1-20 as well as the concept of 'more or less.' I made a couple neat math games/stations for the students that they have really enjoyed!

M&M number matching

What Comes Next? number game

Thanksgiving

To celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we made turkeys for our classroom bulletin board yesterday! We have also been talking about the first Thanksgiving and doing some fun Thanksgiving-themed math activities!

Beginning Sounds

I made a new reading station activity for the class this week. They must find the beginning letter for each of the fall words and match it up to complete the word

Plants

We are talking about seeds and plant life this week and are studying the life cycle of a carrot today. We will talk about the life cycle of a bean plant tomorrow and pumpkin on Thursday!

Landforms Unit

We studied landforms this week and discussed various types of landforms such as mountains, volcanos, islands, hills, etc. We made a neat craft that illustrates some of these!

Halloween!

We had our class Halloween party on Friday afternoon. The kids loved getting to dress up in their costumes and parade around the school! Thank you to all of the parents that brought in cookies/cupcakes/candy etc!

Monster cupcakes!

Sentence Writing

We did a whole group sentence writing activity this morning. The sentence prompt was: "I go to__________."  I called on various students to come up and fill in the blank with a word (sounding it out on their own).

They did a great job sounding out words like "movies," "field trip," "zoo," "park," "Busch Gardens", "Chuck E  Cheese" and "the mall."

Pumpkins!

We drew pictures of how we were going to carve the pumpkins that we got on our field trip

and did some pumpkin math!

Farm Field Trip

We went on a field trip to Summers Farm today! We enjoyed lots of fun activities, a hayride, animals and even got to pick our own pumpkin to take home!

Sight Word Caterpillar

We have been learning one 'sight word' a week in Kindergarten so far this year. I have created a 'sight word caterpillar' to help the kids remember them! :)

Patterns

We have been learning all about patterns this week! We have read various pattern books and have used counters and cubes to create our own patterns.

Gingerbread Man

                                                                                          

We read and discussed the book "The Gingerbread Man" this week. We made character sticks and had fun retelling the story with a partner! We talked about the setting, sequence of events, characters and problem and solution. We also completed a worksheet in which the students drew what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Graphing

We have been studying graphs this week and have created various class graphs

Clouds

We talked about clouds this week and learned about the 3 main types (cirrus, cumulus and stratus). We even took a walk outside and identified the type of clouds in the sky! We enjoyed reading Tomie de Paola's "The Cloud Book" and created a KWL chart about clouds. We had been sorting objects by attribute in math and used our sorting skills to sort various pictures of clouds by what type they were.

Uppercase & Lowercase

We have been working the past couple weeks on identifying and distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters. Here is a station activity from today in which the students sorted uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters

Letters of the Week: L and T

We have been learning about 'L' and 'T' and have been practicing writing these letters. We have been introducing all of the letters that are composed of straight lines and will then teach letters made using curved lines. Today, we did an 'L' and 'T' cut-and-paste sound sort and discussed objects that start with 'L' and 'T.'

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I always begin the year by reading "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and introducing/reviewing the alphabet with the kids! They had so much fun putting the alphabet letters on the coconut tree that I made! We discussed uppercase and lowercase letters and then they got to create their own coconut tree out of construction paper!

Welcome!

I am so excited to begin a new school year! We are going to have a terrific year! I have been working hard in our classroom to get everything ready- here is a sneak peak!