Kindergarten Life!

Kindergarten Life!

This video was created to share our excitement for learning and how much fun it is to be 5 and 6 years old. We hope you enjoy our video and that it inspires you to enjoy learning too!

Fantastic Math Thinking In Kindergarten!

This afternoon, Ms. Lydia(Mrs. D.'s daughter) visited Kindergarten. She helped us create and design another wonderful mathematical quilt using squares and butterflies. We have the quilt on display in our classroom. After our holiday vacation we will create another voicethread for you all to enjoy!
*** Remember you can click on the images to get a closer look!**

Fundations Time In Kindergarten

This morning during "Echo Time' we were beginning a new Fundations Unit, focusing on capital letters. Your children are amazing! They immediately recognized how the capital A is made up of 2 triangles and straight lines! Then another child noticed a trapezoid! I continue to be so impressed by the deep thinking and connections that your children make each day.

Reader's Theater In Kindergarten Performed By Ms. Schwartz and Her Amazing Children!

This afternoon we had the pleasure of seeing our first Reader's Theater! Reader's Theater is when children have an opportunity to read a story collaboratively and focus on their oral reading skills. Some of these skills are reading aloud, reading with expression and voice. The reader's were wonderful!
The story we heard today was called, "What? No Santa

Some Live Video of Our Forest Feast!

A Forest Luncheon With Our Forest Friends!

Great pictures of the wonderful forest food we ate.
Wow! It was so wonderful to see all of the children eating a meal together! We had an opportunity to eat and talk together about the forest. Lots of fun! The children had an opportunity to practice using their table manners and I loved how polite everyone was with each other! The children ate everything! The maggot surprise was a huge hit! Thaks so very much everyone for all that you do to make Kindergarten such a magical place!

A Celebration of The Forest!

This morning we had a wonderful culminating activity of our current theme of study. The forest open house was a huge success! We enjoyed listening to some real forest sounds. The sounds were from forests all over the world. The children were able to read, share and display their amazing writing and artwork. We have enjoyed learning about the forest and the many creatures that live in the forest too!

What Fun Designing and Creating Gingerbread Houses!

This afternoon the children had an opportunity to create their own "gingerbread house." Lots of great ideas were shared around the design of "how to"(great math habit of the mind!) get the walls to stay standing!
Enjoy!

Snow People In Kindergarten!

This morning we read a great story called "Snowballs". The story was really good. The author created different types of snow people, so we decided to make our own too! Tomorrow we go outside to make a snowman!

Exploring the Circumference of Trees!

This afternoon we took a walk outside and visited some of the deciduous and coniferous trees in the front of our school. The children each had their own piece of colored yarn to measure the distance around or circumference of a tree. It was really wonderful to be able to see the children exploring with this new concept.



Wow! A great snack this afternnon too! We all ate tree bark for our afternoon snack!

A Great Way We Collaborate At ABS!

This afternoon we worked with one of Ms. Crowley's students and made a post on our kidblog about our favorite book we read by Kevin Henkes. We are waiting for more storage on our blogs so we can paste a copy of the book we choose as well!