GLOW DAY!!!

 

This week we had our very first theme day this year!  We had GLOW DAY!  We had so much fun!  We spend the day doing all sorts of learning activities that glow under the black lights.  

We started the day working in our phonics journal.  The kids got to use neon crayons and highlighters to write their words and their making words letter were on neon paper. 

After phonic we started literacy learning centers.  Students got to learn at different glowing centers.  They got to make words in the neon rice bin, write the room using highlighters, learned about the sight word you, played tic tac toe, and worked on building fine motor skills by placing glow beads on decodable words. 

In the afternoon we read the book Creepy Underwear which is always a class favorite!  It is especially cool, because the illustrations glow in the black light!

We transitioned into math centers where kids worked together to build towers and count how many cups high their towers were and they completed many center activities to build number sense. 

We ended the day with free play and glowing volcanoes!

We had a great glow day!  

This Is Halloween!

 We had so much fun celebrating Halloween on Friday and Monday.  The kids all looked super cute in their costumes and had so much fun walking in the parade.  On Halloween we talked about our five senses as we carved a pumpkin.  We will try eating pumpkin seeds soon. 

Apple Fun!

 We have had so much fun learning about apples this week! 

We learned all about how apples grow, the different types and colors of apples and we taste tested lots of different apple things!  

All of the students LOVED the Mott's apple juice!

We learned about the different parts of an apple! 

Today we spent our morning peeling and coring apples to make homemade applesauce!  The kids were very helpful and used their GIANT muscles!  

We put it in the crockpot with some water and sugar and put the temperature to high.  Our classroom smelled SO good all day!

When it was time to taste test, Mrs. Kurich's friends came to join us.  We made PLENTY of applesauce!  We compared how Mott's applesauce and homemade applesauce are similar and how they are different by looking at them.  We talked about how the homemade applesauce doesn't have preservatives and only stays good for a couple of days, and it is also why the homemade applesauce looks brown and the Mott's applesauce is yellow. 

Then the fun part came!  We got to taste test!  As you can tell from the photos, some friends LOVED it and some friends...not so much!

After we taste tested both types of applesauce, we graphed which one we liked better! 

SPIRIT WEEK!

 We had a great spirit week!  Our class was in full spirit mode all week! It was so much fun to see them SO excited about coming into school in their awesome outfits every day! 

Pajama day was so epic, I caught them sleeping on the job!

Everyone looked so adorable in their blue!

Yesterday we dressed like something that started with the first letter of our first or last name!

And today we showed our EPIC school spirit!!

The kids had a blast at the parade and they were such good listeners there!  I was really proud of how they handled the chaos of the parade!  They each have a brown bag with candy in their backpack!

We even got to see one of my personal kiddos!  She threw us A LOT of candy! 

What a Fun First Week!

 

We have had such a fun time learning together so far this school year.   We are working really hard to learn the routines and rules of kindergarten.  A big struggle we are having right now is respecting each other's personal space.  We are especially having a hard time keeping our hands to ourselves when we are in line.  We will continue to work on this!  

We have had so much fun learning and playing in our classroom.  We started learning our letters and are working really hard to write and spell our name.  

This activity was extra tricky because we had to use our fine motor skills to rip SO MUCH paper.  We were tired at the end, but we did not give up!

In math this week we are working on sorting!  They were all really good at sorting the sorting bears by color!

Today we got to get out the parachute!  We had to run underneath it and find letter bean bags and run out speedy fast!  There was a lot of laughing and giggling!  We also worked together as a team to spin the parachute like a clock!

Here are some fun pictures of us during free play time too!  We are making lots of new friends!

Hopefully as things calm down a bit, I will be able to snap some more fun pictures to share.