Bieber Fever!

Some of my Kindys have definitely caught Bieber fever!  Fortunately, I found a GREAT way to incorporate him into our classroom!  Justin Bieber has a recording of him reading The Cat in the Hat on the web, so I loaded it up and showed it through the projector.
We have been studying Famous Americans lately, which showed when I asked them to guess what famous person made a video of our class...
"Is it George Washington?"  "No, he lived a loooong time ago, and he passed away."
"Abraham Lincoln?" "Nope, he's not alive any more."
"George Washington Carver?"
"Martin Luther King?"
"No, no..."
Someone even asked if it was Michael Jackson!!

I went ahead and began playing, and the room was filled with screams and squeals!!  Look how excited we are!!

Valentine's Day!

We had a blast on Valentine's Day!  Gunner's mom brought breakfast treats for a special snack, and we opened all the Valentines from our friends!  Valentines day is such a fun day in Kindergarten!

Boosterthon Fun Run!

We had an AMAZING time with our Boosterthon Fun Run Fundraiser!  Our class worked very hard to get pledges, and they worked even harder when it was time to run the laps!!  Combined, our class ran over 600 laps!!!  Continue to collect the money from pledges, and I will let you know our grand total!!

Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th Day!

Check out these 100 year old kindergartners we have at HES!

Here are our fun 100th day activities:

*One Hundreds Mix (Students sent in 100 of a food item to make our version of Chex Mix (100 M&MS, 100 Skittles, 100 raisins, 100 Cheerios, etc.) We even shared some with our administrators!!

*Dress like you're 100 years old!!

*100 or Not 100-we estimated objects in clear containers...crayons, buttons, etc. and estimated!

*100th Day Centers- students chose 1 of the following center activities to do in teams:

Alphabet Soup (students used 10 sets of 10 foam sticker letters and divided into 5 bowls of soup)

Ten Tens Frames (students filled 10 tens-frames with circle stickers and used repeated addition to check for 100)

Cotton Ball Cloud (students created a cloud from 100 cotton balls)

We had a wonderful time!  Who knew counting was so much fun?

Merry Christmas!

Instead of exchanging gifts in our class, we decided to be cheerful givers and send in items for kids at Children's Hospital!  We collected items to stuff in stockings and even made personalized ornaments to include in the stocking.  I took the stockings to the hospital and the nurses were so excited to see our gifts!  The stockings have been given to some children who weren't able to be home for Christmas, and we hope our stockings were able to make the holidays a little happier!!!

We were so excited to pack the stockings on the day of our Christmas party!

Here are 2 nurses that helped deliver the stockings!!

Look what we've been up to!

Our class proved to be full of Super Sorters!!  Check out their sorting plates!

We also had a great opportunity to learn about how our bodies work through Body Trek!  This was an interactive walk through the human body!  Here Gunner and Abi show us how a stethoscope is used and what a human heart looks like!

Homecoming Week!

Homecoming week was so much fun!  One of the class' favorite dress up days was "Dress like Mr. Henderson" day!  They had a great time and really looked the part!

We also had a wonderful time at the high school's homecoming parade!  They brought the parade right by our school!!!  We loved the Hueytown Clown!

More Balls, Ramps, and Roadways...

Here are the 4 teams we had for Roadway building!  These were completely student constructed!  They learned to think critically and solve problems, as well as work in a cooperative group!  Each roadway was tested with various balls, and they all worked so well!  I know you're impressed!!

Halloween Math Centers!

Look at all the fun we had!

Balls & Ramps!

Check out what we did during our balls and ramps science unit!  We compared size, composition, weight, and bounciness with many different balls.  We also studied properties of motion using experiments with various balls and ramps.  Our roadways were constructed over a few days...we worked hard!  We had to figure out how to make our balls travel the distance of the roadway.  How do we look?

Math Night

Here is a video clip from our 2010 Math Night in Kindergarten!

More Clouds!!

We acted out a play to explain how rainbows form.  The sun shines through the water droplets in the air, causing many colors to be showcased!  Check out our awesome actors and actresses!

Don't forget to talk with your child about what they're learning about clouds!  You may be impressed by what you hear!!  We've done experiments like "cloud in a bag" to understand that clouds are made of tiny water droplets.  They are also able to classify clouds as cumulus, stratus, cirrus, or contrail.