Animals 2x2

Snails, Worms, and Isopods

This nine-weeks we are learning about animals in science.  Our first animal to study is snails.  Here is a little of our exploration with these fun little creatures.  

Day 1: We talked about safety when handling animals.  We came up with rules we thought were good to remember when we handled the snails.  Here are their posters they made to remind them of all the rules. 

Day 2:  We read a book about snails and learned all the body parts of the snail. They got to hold and play with the snails....all while being scientists of course! Then we had to record our findings.

Day 3:  We had snail races!  We put colored stickers on the snails and watched as they raced out of our target. Let's just say these weren't the fastest races.....

We can't wait to learn about worms next week!

-Bennett

Egg Hunt

1,2,3......12!

Our Beach Buddies had so much fun at Reed's first Egg Hunt!  Students had to find eggs, in order, 1-12.  They then had to go back to the fence, put them in order, and finally pick one to eat!  It was a happy day!

-Bennett

Me on the Map

Maps

During our Living on Earth science/social studies unit, we learned all about maps!  We looked at the globe, a map of the world, Texas, Cedar Park, and our school.  We read Me on the Map and found our own special place on the map.  Students enjoyed making their own community maps and maps of our classroom and their bedroom.  

Have your student make a map of a room in ya'lls house for fun! 

-Bennett

Non-Fiction Texts

Posters and Recipes

During the 3rd nine weeks we learned about non-fiction (informational) texts.  We learned that we can learn from non-fiction books, posters, recipes, maps, etc.  We sorted books, cut out and sorted pictures of books from the scholastic book orders, and even made our own informational texts!

Here are a couple of the lost posters they made for their lunchboxes and jackets.  They did a great job!

The next informational text we talked about were recipes.  They got a chance to write their own recipes.....and I realized we needed a little more experience with recipes (after reading their own) so we made Rice Krispies by looking at a recipe!

We all agreed they were delicious! 

-Bennett

Martin Luther King Day

We Have Dreams

On Martin Luther King Day we read some really inspiring books about Martin Luther King Jr.  We talked about his dream, and modeled that we are all the same on the inside by using two different color eggs and cracking them open.

...that people would treat people the same.

...that animals will be taken care of.

...that people will care for people.

We all came up with dreams for the world!  It was so awesome to see 5 and 6 year olds come up with such big dreams.  These students will make a difference!

-Bennett

We are Poets!

Poems in Kindergarten

The last 4 weeks our focus in language arts has been poetry.  We used instruments to make the rhythm of different poems, focused on visualizing poems, and even created a variety of our own poems! 

We started off by making list poems.  The first one was about our lunchbox.  We practiced reading them like poets. 

Our Ouch! poems was one of their favorites!  We came up with a list of all the things that made us go "ouch" then turned those into poems.  Students loved wearing their bandaids!

Next, we made our I Love poems.  The students were so engaged in poetry this day!  We ended up skipping math because the students wanted to make their final copies of their poems so bad (Don't worry, we had double math the next day :)).  Our Beach Buddies love to write!

Although our poetry unit is over, we will continue to write poems, listen to poems, and visualize poems throughout the year because WE ARE POETS!

100th Day!!

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100

We have been trucking through kindergarten the last month and finally made it to the 100th day of school! 

 We started our day with a 100 item collection parade around the kinder/first neighborhood.  The Beach Buddies loved showing off their 100 day collections to the first graders!

The rest of our day included writing what we would do with $100, counting our collections with our learning partners, putting 100 Fruit Loops on a necklace, and putting together our 100 day snack (consisting of 100 things).  Our students said they wished every day was the 100th day! It was a great day in the Beach Buddy room!

-Bennett