Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: November 2014

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Sharing Snack

We put our desks together, covered them with our beautiful tablecloth and enjoyed our Sharing Snack! We also practiced "mindful eating" as we tasted a variety of foods slowly, thoughtfully, and experienced the textures, smell, and tastes of our delicious healthy treats. We worked on our manners, good eating habits, gratitude and appreciation of all that we had on our table. Thanks for contributing!

The children loved having our desks in a long table so we kept them that way for the whole day!

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Candle Holders and Kettle Corn For Sale!

What a great turn out for our Farmer's Market! First and second grade students made over $300. selling our products. The money raised will be donated to the Waterbury and Duxbury Food Shelf. Our class raised over $33. The children worked very hard and what a huge success! Our kettle corn was in high demand for sure! And a big thank you to Way Out Wax for donating the tea light candles for our holders. The Farmer's Market was a perfect culminating activity for our Community Theme. We have learned so much about our community- the town we live in and the farms that surround our town.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

1st and 2nd Grade

Farmers Market

Thursday, November 6
6-7 PM

in the Gym!

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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!