Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: February 2018

Friday, February 23, 2018

Winter Olympics

Kindergarten had a blast participating in many events such as Penguin Waddle, Ariel Ski and Snowboard Jumping, Ice skating, Pillow Polo, curling and Mogul Skiing!

Friday, February 16, 2018

Valentine's Day

Thank you all for the wonderful treats and cards! We celebrated our friendship with an afternoon party!

Friday, February 9, 2018

What a fun day!!! We participated in a variety of 100 day activities, we: counted our collections, took a "museum walk" to see other kindergarten collections, made 100 bead necklaces, did 100 exercises, made 100 dot pictures, and counted 100 words in a 100 word poem!

Friday, February 2, 2018

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the...

We love Mo Willems books! Throughout the school year, they have been our favorite read alouds...Mo Willems is also a great teacher of Author's Craft, and we get many ideas for own writing during Writers Workshop.

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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!

Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten