September 6- 25th Welcome to Kindergarten B

The Kissing Hand book is read the first day and Chester the Raccoon

 visits the class.

First day photos!

Our Pirate Unit Begins . . .

How many jewels will your pirate ship hold?

Look at the jewels on my pirate ship!  It is not sinking!

Investigating the snails...

Roll the cube color a block  on the recording sheet of the picture on the top of the cube.  I wonder which pirate item will race to the top.

I wonder how many pieces of gold goes on this treasure chest.

Meet Blackbeard, Polly the Parrot and Timmy the Turtle! Blackbeard showed the class something about pirates each day. We then recorded the information on a pirate mind map!

We all made pirates that had our faces on them. Cutting can be difficult.  We will be on our big pirate ship.

The Pirate castle is a hit. Wonderful turn taking!

The boys worked really hard together to build an awesome building!

Two more first day photos!

Find the hidden words in the buried treasure.  Record the words on the sheet.

Following a patterns and putting the strips on the numbers to make a ship picture.

Making our newspaper pirate hats,  First we follow the folding directions, then we help staple and finally we decorate with markers anyway we wish!

I almost have the picture all put  together!

Exploring magnets what will stick ( attract) and what will not stick ( detract) draw three thing for both.

More buried treasure words to find and record!

Our first try at turn and talk.  Great work!  We take turns talking with each other.  A nice way to reinforce turn taking.

Some of our pirate display with the many curriculum outcomes we have touched on  during our pirate unit displayed.

Our big pirate ship.  All aboard mateys!

September 19 - National Pirate Day.  Here we are as pirates in Kindergarten B.

We had to walk the plank ... careful of the sharks! Great large muscle control!

Great pencil grasps.  I ask the children to pinch and flip.

Playdough coconuts- great for developing fine motor control.

Welcome to Kindergarten B

I am excited as we begin a new year in kindergarten.  I look forward to getting to know your children and you as well.  It will be an exciting year in kindergarten with many fun learning opportunities for the children.  I will begin posting pictures of the learning activities that are occurring in the classroom in the near future!

Final Blog Post 2011 -12 Kindergarten Class

Cabot Park Day -Enjoying snack and lunch with our friends.

Loving the playground.  Especially the teeter totter!

A real treasure hunt with maps with glues hidden in boxes that we had to find.

The glues led us to the beach and we had to dig up the treasure - gold medallions and free ice cream tickets!

Fun at the beach!

More fun ... it was a beautiful, relaxing day!

Our treasure ice cream tickets worked ... the ice cream was tasty!

We had a full day.  We are tired and ready to go home!

Enjoying painting.

Moon sand this is really neat!  Did you really get it from the moon?

Clipboard cruising What does this word say?

Roll and count.  I hope I do not roll the fly swatter or bug spray.  I want to keep all my bugs on the jar!

I can find lots of words to print from the word wall!

We got all the shapes in before it popped!

It is a little harder than it looks to quickly get the shapes in the game before the board pops!

Don't Spill the Beans!  Careful. . .

Logging in on the computer.  We can do this quickly all by ourselves now!

We are glad to have the lego table back out.

Having fun with Twister.  Look at our moves!

I am trying to add more detail and leave spaces between my words.

Drawing and printing in our journals.  Looking at how to draw a cat  guide is helpful.

Printing our sight words, letters and numbers.