Penguin Bulletin Board

Here is our penguin bulletin board display! Students worked at home with their family members to make these AWESOME versions of Tacky the Penguin! We had all kinds of Tackys...a sheriff, a hula dancer, a girl with high heels, a Santa, and many other adorable ones. I hope you families had as much fun making your Tacky the Penguin as we had sharing them and displaying them :) Don't forget our new Family Project: A Leprechaun Trap! (We want some gold!) Check out this link for the original Tacky the Penguin book. There are many sequels to Tacky and his friends' adventures. http://www.amazon.com/Tacky-Penguin-Helen-Lester/dp/0395562333

Personal Penguin Party

We had our "Personal Penguin Party" on Thursday, February 24th, 2011. Below are some pictures from our classroom snacks. Hopefully some nice parent(s) can send me some pictures of the performance. :)

 Here is our lovely penguin buffet display.

 

 

 MacKenzie made a boy and girl penguin out of Oreos, candy corn, and candy buttons!

 Dylan and his brothers (with Mom's help) made these cute penguins!

Gabby shows off her beautiful Oreo penguin!

Measuring

 Here Zachary measures for the bed using a ruler.

 Dylan uses a standard unit of measurement.

We read the book How Big is a Foot? A king wanted to give his wife, the queen a birthday gift. It was a bed that measured 6 feet by 3 feet. However when the apprentice measured for the bed, he used his own feet which were much smaller than the king's feet. The queen could not fit in her bed. The apprentice realized he needed to use the king's feet to measure for the bed. This bed was perfect for the queen. The students understand that we need to use a standard way of measuring instead of using our own feet. We did this ruler/measuring activity and compared the "bed" we measured off to the bed we made out of paper feet.

Toast With Zombie Butter

I posted this on my other blog, yellowkittynotebook (my art blog) for my fellow artists out there interested in a moment of Kindergarten life :)

Here is a reading and writing activity I did with one of my Guided Reading Groups a while back. After reading our book, we chose a sentence from the book (or I randomly gave them one.) The sentences' words were cut apart. They had to put the sentence back in order and glue them down. I did my sentence first to demonstrate. Then they copied the words down as I did and illustrated. I was being in a silly mood that day so I decided to make mine have zombie butter chasing the toast (since the sentence was about bread.) :) Just thought I'd share a moment of Kindergarten teaching! (What was so cute about this is that one of my "budding artists" decided to do her own version with her sentence and made an anthropomorphic character too, feet, hands, face...it was so cute! I'd meant to upload her work; :( I must have sent it home with her because she was so proud of it!)

Late Post from October Field Trip

Here are some pictures from our field trip in October to Huber's in Indiana. I'm sorry it's taken a while to upload them; I've had difficulty with technology recently (as I've stated in a previous post.) Enjoy! :)

 

 

 

Our Thanksgiving Performance

 It's the "cousins" all visiting at Thanksgiving.

 The whole group at the end of our performance (practice).

Showing off our turkey hats on our performance night. (Notice Tanner H. in his pjs? :) He had to pretend to sleep with visions of turkey legs dancing in his head!)

Here are some "relatives" traveling by taxi, by plane, by train, and by car.

First Week of School

We've successfully completed our first week (or partial anyway) of school! Students did such a wonderful job of learning school procedures and practicing. I have posted several pictures of kids practicing some routines such as walking quietly in the hall and of them working in center time focusing on fine motor skills. Enjoy!
Ms. Cundiff

Zachary uses fine motor skills to connect nuts and bolts.

Dylan, Lily, and A.J. work using the design builder shapes while Alan works on lacing cards.

Justin M., Gabby, and Ethan enjoy exploring the pipe building.

 

Stringing beads to make a "snake."                                                                                                                                          

 Dakota colors her nametag.

 

Leprechaun Trap Projects

Here are some GRRREAT leprechaun traps completed by Kindergarten students in our classroom (sorry I'm not able to post them all!) Families did a wonderful job coming up with interesting ideas, and students were fantastic at presenting their projects to our class. Our principal, Mr. Abell even popped in to watch a few demonstrations! Top photo: That lucky leprechaun is going to find a bed inside this trap! Next photo: All that gold and shiny trappings will be sure to attract a leprechaun! That pot even has "gold" rocks (she spray painted them gold!) Third photo: This ingenious trap was created out of a wooden birdhouse! The little flowerpot in the door is to trap the leprechaun inside. Without a ladder, he won't be able to climb up from the inside and push the pot out. Bottom photo: This trap has all the things that attract leprechauns: Lucky Charms cereal, path sprinkled with gold glitter, a rainbow, gold rocks, and a trap door for the leprechaun to fall into as he reaches the pot of gold candy.

Kindergarten News

Welcome! This week our class has been learning a LOT about insects! We have read many books and watched a couple of videos about insects. We learned so much information about them that all students who finished an Open Response Question on insects scored a 4! This is GREAT, especially since this is Kindergarten!

(Above is Megan's bee and writing piece that she made after we read in our Guided Reading groups. Students in that group made a bee just like the kid in our book did, then they wrote a "How-To" piece for their portfolios on how to create a bee. Below is what Megan's says in case it's difficult to see it all in the picture above.)

1.Put eyes

2. Put stripes

3. Glue the paper like this

4. Glue the wings

5. Put the little antennae