Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: February 2015

Friday, February 20, 2015

What's the "Matter" Mr. Snowman?

Our science investigation into "matter" inspired our writing and art as we tried to convince "Mr. Snowman" that melting wasn't such a bad thing after all, since he is made of water! His state of matter is only changing based on temperature!

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Valentines Math

We estimated, counted, sorted, tallied, added, and graphed our way through math on Valentines Day!

Monday, February 9, 2015

Happy 100th Day!

Thank you for your snack donations- delicious!

Throughout our morning, we challenged ourselves to see what we could do in 100 seconds. We predicted how many times we could write our name in 100 seconds, sing the ABC's, clap, count to 10, stand and sit, etc! Then we recorded our actual times; the children were surprised how long 100 seconds lasted!!

What would you do with $100? Here are some of our writing responses:

Sunday, February 1, 2015

100th Day of School

We will be celebrating our 100th Day on Wednesday January 4th! This is also an Early Release Day! We have many fun activities planned including "100 Day Trail Mix". Please send in a snack to share such as cheerios, raisins, Kix cereal, mini marshmallows- a treat that we can count! Thank You!

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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!