If you have missed my previous posts about our duck egg adventures, take a look at my previous posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The duck eggs have continued to be a great learning experience in our classroom. We have continued to care for them, and students are still asking great questions about the… Continue reading The Duck Life Cycle Part 4
If you have missed my previous posts, take a look at them here: Part 1 Part 2 We have finished our third week with the duck eggs in our classroom. I am so excited to see their changes everyday, and our students have been learning so much in the process! Our egg candler is showing… Continue reading The Duck Life Cycle Part 3
This is Part 2 of my Duck Life Cycle series, if you missed it, take a look at: Part 1 We have had another eventful week in kindergarten and students are still excited to have the duck eggs in our classroom. They check on them everyday and continue to ask questions about them. Here is… Continue reading The Duck Life Cycle Part 2
The students in our class were showing an interest a couple of weeks ago in the weather and the clouds that they saw outside. So we decided to start a unit on clouds and see how interested they were in looking at different kinds of weather. Apparently not very interested because we have decided to… Continue reading Cloud Activities in Kindergarten
As was promised with last week's post, here is week 2 of our dinosaur play-based centers. Students have continued to enjoy learning about dinosaurs, and this week we went deeper into the different types of dinosaurs to learn about them. We started off with the T-Rex (of course), then a triceratops and finally the pterodactyl… Continue reading Dinosaur Play-Based Centers Part 2
Our students were very interested in learning about dinosaurs, and so for the past week we have tried to incorporate dinosaurs into our centers to learn as much as we can about them. This is only week 1 of our inquiry centers, so make sure you follow my blog to find out what we do… Continue reading Dinosaur Play-Based Centers
We are finishing up our letter study this year with our last two letters! It is pretty exciting when our Junior Kindergarten students finish learning the alphabet and start writing. It opens up a whole new world to them and they gain so much confidence in their skills. Our letter V center was pretty simple,… Continue reading Letters V & X Centers
Every time we are focusing on a new letter in our class we like to do activities to help them remember the letter and its sound (for C we did cloud painting and a cloud invitation to create and for N we did a night painting), and for the letter E with did an experiment… Continue reading Letter E Science Activity!
We used butterflies as a jumping off point for looking at lines of symmetry. We began by using this butterfly matching game to reinforce the concept that butterflies wings are symmetrical. Next, we used some really simple ideas for our loose parts center: We put a stick in the middle of the cork board that… Continue reading Invitation to Explore – Line of Symmetry
We have started our own little vegetable garden in our classroom. It has been great for the kids to see the process of how our fruits and vegetables grow! Each student received their own "My Garden Notes" book (you can download this great cover page from Sisters Guild Blog), and we have been discussing how… Continue reading Learning About Plants
