Plants, and Caterpilars and Flowers... Oh My!

 Good news!  All of our sprout houses have started to sprout.  Some of them have big roots and some of them are just starting to sprout! 

This morning we took white roses and celery and put them into colored water.  We want to see if they will drink the colored water and what that will do to the plants. 

After we put them in the water we learned about the different parts of a plant. 

The kids went to music and when came back from music, we were surprised to see that you could already tell that the celery had drank up some colored water!

We continued our daily routine and by the end of the day we were so excited to see how colorful our plants already were!

We can't wait to see them tomorrow!  Our caterpillars formed their J's and one of them fell, but it is looking like it may be okay.  I believe it formed it's chrysalis today!  

Our bean and pea plants also have grown so nicely!

SPROUTS & SPROUT HOUSES!!

Today when we came in we saw that our pea seeds are starting to change!  Our bean seeds are still hanging in there!

We made sprout houses to tape to the windows with bean and pea seeds today as well! We are excited to see if they will sprout even without soil! 

Our caterpillars are getting bigger and bigger! I forgot to take a picture of them today!  I will make sure to get one tomorrow though!  It is so fun hearing how excited the kids are getting everyday about science! 

Life Cycles

 With spring comes a fun and exciting Science unit it kindergarten!  We will spend the next couple of weeks learning about the life cycle of plants and animals.  In class we will be observe caterpillars as they transform through the stages of caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.  We will release them once they turn into butterflies.  We will also be observing pea and bean plants as they grow.  We will compare and contrast them.  They are planted in a clear container so we will be able to observe how the seeds change and the roots as well. 

Day One

On Day One we observed the caterpillars and noticed some webbing at the bottom of the container. This is what caterpillars do in nature to protect themselves from predators and weather.  We also talked about the butterfly's life cycle and used some pretty cool magnets to display it on our board.  We are all very excited to watch our caterpillars grow!

    

We planted two bean seeds and two pea seeds today.  We are looking forward to watching these grow as well.  Today we learned that plants need sun, soil, water, and air to grow. 

Day 2

Today we learned about the life cycle of a plant.  We also observed our seeds from yesterday and noted no changes.  We watered the seeds and will check again tomorrow!

Today we observed our caterpillars some more.  The students noticed that they appeared to be a little more active today and they have made some more webbing.  The students also noticed that there are a lot of little brown specs in the jar.  That is their poop.  They thought that was pretty funny. 

I can project the caterpillars onto the whiteboard so they can get a nice big look at what they are doing!  

We look forward to sharing more of our butterfly and plant journey with you!

100th Day of School!

 We had so much celebrating the 100th day of school today!  

We made ourselves look 100 years old by putting our pictures through a time machine app!

We practiced counting by tens by doing 100 exercises!  10 of each one!!

We read 100 words!!!  They are getting SO smart!

We wrote 100 words!!

And we had a special 100th day snack!!  Our cookies made the number 100!

We had so much fun working with the number 100 today!  In addition to these fun activities, we read stories about the 100th day, we counted to 100 lots of times, and we wrote what new things we can do now that we are 100 days smarter!  

GLOW DAY!!!

 

Today when the students arrived they noticed something a little strange about our classroom.  There was neon stars EVERYWHERE!  They got to play with their busy box at their seat until it was time for the pledge and attendance.  After attendance we took a bathroom break.  Mrs. Laue was very sneaky and I turned on the black lights and turned OFF the regular lights.  The kids were SO excited walking into the classroom and were so excited to see what parts of their outfits glowed.  

Glow day is a lot of fun, but there is still work to be done!  We got started making words right away. First the kids had to add the beginning sound to the rime and then write the words.  They all got a special invisible ink pen, a highlighter, and neon crayons to use. 

We did some rainbow writing and a sight word search next!

Making words with glow in the dark stars was also a HUGE hit!  We were working on words in the -ad family today!

Days like today, it is sometimes fun to just sit back and listen to the excitement and the giggles coming from the students.  

We got to have a little fun today also!  We read the book A Creepy Pair of Underwear (it GLOWS under the black light!) and then the kids got to create their own creepy pair of underwear!  

For math, we did some rainbow writing with our numbers.  We also played a dice game where students roll either one or two dice and color the number that they get.  The kids love this game and playing it with highlighters and neon crayons was an added bonus!  We also had some fun counting and sorting beads onto pipe cleaners!

Glow Volcanoes are always a HUGE hit!  All of my in person kiddos got to make a glow volcano today!  

My remote learners also got to join in on the fun today!  Instead of doing their normal Thursday work, they got an at home GLOW DAY kit with some similar activities and some different activities!

Overall, we had an AWESOME glow day!!!  

Team Spirit Day!!

 

Tomorrow is Class by Color Day and Kindergarten is PURPLE!!!

Spirit Week!

 Today was pajama day and we had so much fun chillaxin in our PJ's!  Tomorrow is wear your favorite sports gear day so I will obviously be decked out in my PACKERS gear!!