Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: April 2012

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Solar Energy

Our school was invited up to our Library for a special presentation on Solar Energy. We learned how important solar energy is and that Vermont is a great place to get energy from the sun!! Children participated in a skit that showed us how solar energy works.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Trip to Singapore!

Last week, Harper's mom brought us on an imaginary trip to Singapore! She shared beautiful pictures of this very busy city and we even tried some treats from this far away land! Thank You, Tamatha, for a wonderful journey!

Tamatha teaching us about Singapore

A delicious peanut butter treat

Strong smelling "Durian"!

The Durian fruit

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

All School Shares

Monday, April 30th, 8:10-8:40 Spring Booster kick off in the gym

Friday, May 11th, 1:30 Arbor Day outside, all school share in gym afterwards

Friday, June 15th, 1pm Late Spring Celebration, parade outside, all school share in gym afterwards

100th Day of School!

We are celebrating the 100th day on Tuesday, February 6th. We will be completing all sorts of fun math and literacy activities on this day. One activity is “Sharing Collections”. Students are asked to bring in a collection of 100 items. All collections need to be back by our 100th day. Examples of items to collect are:

Pennies, crayons, beads, matchbox cars, lego’s, erasers, marshmallows, toothpicks, pebbles, noodles, paper clips, stickers, goldfish, cereal… the possibilities are endless!

All About Books

Our Animal Research Books are complete! We have included many facts about our animals, used "Kidspirartion" to organize our facts on the computer and used "Kidpix" to make diagrams with labels on the computer. We also included headings, bold print, a glossary, a table of contents page and a "Meet the Author" page. This project came together beautifully as children incorporated technology into their research and final products. We are now experts on many animals!! (and non-fiction text features!)

Adventure Play

One component of our weekly routine is Adventure Play. These games and activities invite children to challenge themselves, practice cooperation, provide opportunities to practice decision making skills, and build upon our classroom community skills.

One of our favorites is called "Car and Driver" where children are encouraged to participate in "challenge by choice". One child is the "car", and may close their eyes for the "challenge", but may open their eyes at any time "by choice". What fun it is to "drive" our "cars" around our classroom!