Kindly Kinders

So here is a huuuuuge post: over 300 pictures.

We were able to read books to our class in library.

Then we got to play with our friends:

Our math puzzle:

Helping Mr. Bowen lay out paper for SWAP:

Center time!

Then we got Spanish:

Time to play again:

Centers:

Letter BINGO: put a marker on the picture that starts with the letter I say.

Music Practice:

Just relaxin'

Math Puzzle time:

Now it's time to have library again:

Here we are making scarecrows and checking our books:

Back outside:

We were able to go play in Dr. Minear's room:

Then we had a field trip to the laundromat:

And got to eat snack and draw pictures:

Tying our shoes:

Playing doctor:

More centers:

Finishing our scarecrows:

Our letter bingo:

We found a rice tub outside:

Our letter and word songs:

We are enjoying library:

Making haystacks:

Spanish songs:

We love Ms. Kiara!

The kids painted letters and we are able to hang them in our room!

For SWAP, we decorated circles with things we are thankful for. We then put it on a table runner.

Playing in the leaves:

Show and Tell:

Mr. Gary read to the kids when I lost my voice.

Spanish came and taught us how to draw people with Spanish words:

Writing in our word books:

We made flags for Veteran's day!

Mr. Gary taught us a game to play for P.E.

Dr. Minear taught us a song using colored bells.

Word books:

Music practice:

We have the best costume in the world in our play area:

We are learning about rivers and oceans. The kids created this Venn diagram:

Word Books:

Writing cards to each other:

Centers:

Word book:

We created an ocean for science. We saw the water travel up the sand creating wet sand near the water and dry sand away from it. Then it became a sand and water station.

Music practice:

Spanish: drawing bears.

Science field trip! Dr. Pendergrass's class created small lessons and activities with science. The kids were able to travel to each place.

Then we were going to do our river science experiment. In their Venn diagram, they told me that there is grass on the side of rivers but now on oceans. So we decided to dye our sand green.

However, we saw that once the sand dried, it became almost white again. So that didn't work and we used the green sand for a more elaborate sand and water station.

Then, using just food coloring, we dyed sand yellow, green, and water blue.

This was the amazing experiment. We used yellow sand and blue water. The water traveled down the hill through the indentation I had made. As the sand soaked up the blue water, the sand turned green - illustrating how water gives life to plants. Then it even made a peninsula and we were able to talk about how they are formed and how deltas are formed. It even allowed for us to talk about soil erosion. This worked out far better than I had even imagined.