Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: December 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Happy Holidays!

A busy two days before vacation: We had a guest chef, Ms. Kay, and she helped us make Latkes! Very Yummy! Thank you Ms. Kay!! We have been learning about celebrations around the world, such as Diwali, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanza.

We made Gingerbread Glyphs- pictures that represent information about ourselves- our favorite activities, books, etc.

After reading The Gingerbread Baby, we decorated our own gingerbread cookies.

The children received holiday gifts by our two favorite authors; Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl- they were so excited to receive books! Happy 2015!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Planet Earth Exploration: Our Green Screen Video!

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Our Cross Country Ski Day

is on Fridays! We will take an hour of our day to cross country over in the Thatcher Brook Field from 12:00 to 1:00.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Earth and Sky

We are learning about earth's moon! We are tracking the phases of the moon every day and noticing how much light is shining on the moon's surface. It has been very exciting as we inch our way towards the full moon! We got a close up view of the moon's surface using google earth. We saw the spot where Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon and also noticed many craters on the moon. We experimented with how craters are formed using meteors (marbles) and the moon's surface (moon sand). We figured out how speed and distance affect the size of a crater. We will continue exploring space during our theme time for the next few weeks!

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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!