K is for King

If You Give A Hippo A Hamburger

We have been studying author Laura Numeroff. We wrote a story that followed the style in which she writes her stories! Here it is:

If You Give A Hippo A Hamburger

By: Ms. Eddy's Kindergarten

If you give a hippo a hamburger, he will want a pop. He will also want fries. When he gets the fries he will want ketchup to dip them in. The hippo spilled the ketchup and wanted a napkin to clean it up. When he sees the napkin, he will want some paper. Then he will want some crayons to draw. The yellow crayon will remind him he forgot to put mustard on his hamburger. So he will ask for another hamburger with mustard on it.

The End

J is for Jellyfish

H is for Hockey

H is for Hockey

Our Turkey Hats

Here are the turkey hats we made! The kids loved them and started to instantly gobble once they put them on! Here is a fun Thanksgiving song to sing with your kindergartener or whole family! Enjoy!

*Sing to the tune of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"

This is the day for giving thanks,

Giving thanks, giving thanks.

This is the day for giving thanks,

Celebrate Thanksgiving!

This is the day for thanking those

Who give us food and give us clothes.

This is the day a "thank you" goes

To family on Thanksgiving!

This is the day for thanking friends,

On friendship, everyone depends.

This is the day our thanks extend

To friends on Thanksgiving!

This is the day the Pilgrims ate,

And the Indians shared their plate.

This is the day we commemorate

The very first Thanksgiving!

This is the day to be sincere,

Giving thanks that we are here.

In November every year,

We celebrate Thanksgiving!

November 7th-10th Weekly News

KINDERGARTEN WEEKLY NEWS

We welcomed a new student to our class this week! Welcome Sulvoris, we are very happy to have you in our wonderful kindergarten class!

This week our theme was how to stay healthy! We talked about exercising, the food pyramid and eating right, and about germs. We even have our very own science experiment taking place in our class room that our kindergarteners are observing. On Wednesday, we had three groups of students: one group washed their hands with soap and water, one group washed their hands with just soap, and one group didn’t wash their hands at all. Then, each separate group passed around peeled potatoes and we put them in separate bags. We predicted that the potatoes that were touched with the not washed hands and the hands only washed with water would go rotten. Now the potatoes are hanging in our classroom for us to observe each day. We will have the results of our experiment next week!

In reading, we learned a new sight word: “we.” Please work on finding this word with your child in books at home. All of the sight words we have learned so far include: I, a, is, and, can, was, will, we. It is great extra practice to have your child look for these words around the house. Also this week, we learned about the letter Dd. We learned what sound it made (duh), some words that start with Dd (we thought of 24), and how to write big “D” and little “d.” We made dinosaurs out of the big letter “D”, and as a class we wrote a story about a dinosaur (a copy is attached). Our kindergarteners really enjoyed working together to write our story. We sat on the rug as a group, and the kids told me the sentences to write to make our story. We will continue doing this throughout the year, and by the end of the year, each child will get their own book of all of our stories! We also learned how to write big “E” and little “e” this week. And we got to read our second whole book! We now know how to read two whole books! The first one is called “I Can Move” and the second one is called “At School”. Each child has a copy of each book and they will remain in our book boxes until the end of the school year.

In math this week, we are still working on counting and writing our numbers 0-5. We also learned how to do some graphing this week! The kids were very excited about graphing, and we will be graphing our science experiment I explained above for some extra practice! We will continue working on numbers 0-5, and then we will have a test on them next Wednesday. Please work with your child at home on writing their numbers 0-5. Number 2 and number 5 are the most tricky!

Thank you to all the parents who were able to come to conferences this week! I really enjoyed meeting all of you and getting the opportunity to talk about the amazing children you have raised. Your children are the reason that I love teaching so much. They brighten my day every day and I love coming to school and helping them learn and grow!

Our Dinosaur Story

The Dinosaur Class

Written By:

Ms. Eddy's Kindergarten

One day we were reading a story about dinosaurs and the dinosaur came alive out of the book. The dinosaur walked around our class. He played with the toys. Then he yelled, "GET OUT OF MY CLASS!" We ran out of the class. The dinosaur chased us out of the school. Then he chased us outside. He finally caught us and then he played basketball with us.

The End

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who helped make our Halloween day extra spooktacular! We had so much fun playing the skeleton drop game, getting tattoos, decorating cookies, and doing the cake walk! Then, we got the chance to show off our dance moves in the gym. We sure know how to boogie down and have a great time!

Dancing

Andrew the Zombie Hunter

Frankenstein Jaden

Princess Kaylee

Eating Cookies

Princess Sofia

Ninja Kayden

Doing the Cake Walk

Mya Getting a Tattoo

Decorating Cookies

Watching the Costume Parade

Watching the Costume Parade

Button B's and Snow

The big excitement in our class today was the morning snow! Everyone was jumping with joy because they thought snow automatically meant it was Christmas. So we had to have a discussion about snow, and how Christmas isn't until December and the kids know that it is only October.We also created small "b's" out of buttons today! The kids loved it and loved showing me which buttons they chose. Earlier in the week we collaged big "B's" out of blue, black, and brown paper. You will see those displayed on our bulletin board along with our button "b's"!

Our Collaged Big B's and Button Small b's

Our Morning Snow

Letter A Centers

On Wednesday, October 19 our class worked in three different centers that helped us practice writing/making the letter "Aa" and recognizing the letter "Aa". The most popular center involved making a big "A" and little "a" out of Playdoh! They had a blast and the letters turned out great! Another center was just practicing writing our big and little "a's". In the last center our kindergarteners had to circle words that started with "a". Once they found all the words that started with "a" and circled them, they drew a picture of "a" word that started with "a". I had pictures of words that started with "a" at the center to help give them some ideas. The centers were great practice and our kindergarteners really enjoyed them! Keep working on those "Aa's"!