Arctic Animals

In January, we learned all about Arctic Animals. Each of the K classes became experts about one of the Arctic animals. At the end of the week, we each made a short iMovie to share with the other classes. Here are come cute crafts for each.

Flashlight Friday

After the children got their last compliment, we had Flashlight Friday! It was a fun day where we did all our work and reading by flashlights. We used them in our Morning Meeting for our greeting and activity.  We did our reading and math work by flashlights too.

Oobleck Writing

After reading Bartholemew and the Oobleck, we made our own Oobleck out of corn starch, water, and food coloring. As the teacher was making it, the children were writing about each step on the organizer. We have been practicing paragraphs, so this is a perfect how-to paragraph.

Step 1: First, pour the corn starch into the bowl.
Step 2: Next, pour a little water in at a time until it makes a moist consistency and mix.
Step 3: Last, add a little food coloring.

After we wrote our rough draft out, we had an editing time and corrected mistakes. Last, I took my class to the computer lab to type out their paragraphs.

Graphs

Lucky Charms Graph

Goldfish Graph

The Lorax

After reading The Lorax, the children had a writing assignment to complete. "If I were The Lorax, this is how I would save the Earth..." We also made this cute little Lorax paper plate craft with it.

Dr. Seuss

We read Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? We used this graphic organizer to form an opinion about which pet they would get if they had a choice. We have had one lesson on writing a paragraph and this would lead in perfectly for writing another one. We discussed that the topic sentence and concluding sentence should state the same thing, just change the words around a bit. 

 After we made our organizer, we wrote a rough draft of our paragraphs.

The children then got to take their paragraphs to the computer lab to type out. They were so proud of themselves!

Oh, the Places You'll Go Suitcase

American Symbols

We learned about American symbols in kindergarten last week. We covered the basics, such as the American flag, Liberty Bell, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, White House, etc. First, we watched a Brain Pop Jr. on the American symbols. Then, we used this great packet from TPT.

Lastly, on Friday, after learning about each of the symbols, I put my class in groups of 2-3. I assigned each group a symbol. They had to work together to draw a picture of it and think of 3 facts about their symbol, such as where it is, what it symbolizes, and other interesting things about it. We used an app that I just got called Chatterpix. Very kid- friendly. The group took a picture of their drawing, then they can talk on top of their picture with a little mouth moving. Here are two of our little videos that we made.