A Play and St. Patrick's Day by Guest Bloggers Madison and Lucy

Here is our past week according to our guest bloggers Madison and Lucy.

Guest Bloggers Madison and Lucy

Last Thursday we went to St. Paul's School.  We saw a play called Goldie Locks and the Three Pigs. It was a mixed up fairy tale. It was a funny show and the pigs were the funniest.  There were actually six pigs.  There were three girl pigs and three boy pigs. It was a sunny day and we had fun on the bus too.

On Tuesday when we came to school there were little foot prints on the easel and the floor and the door.  The chairs were upside-down. The toilet water was green and it had glitter in it!  We all screamed AAAAAHHH!! Our block towers that we built for the leprechaun were knocked down. We found coins everywhere! We knew the leprechaun had been to our room.  We saw a sign that said the leprechaun was here.

We played a shamrock game.  We had to look for shamrocks with sight
words on them.  We had to find 10 of them. It was a scavenger hunt.

We had to look all over the classroom. It was fun.  We all liked it.

Searching for our leprechaun.

Mrs. Duval did not know how to draw a leprechaun.  We watched
an art video that taught us how to do it.  It was fun.
http://artforkidshub.com/how-to-draw-a-leprechaun/

This is what our leprechauns looked like.

Everyone's looked a little different.

We all got to bring home a gold coin! St. Patrick's Day was really fun.

Today in art we started learning how to wet felt.
Mrs. Emerson is teaching us.

We are getting ready to make felt flowers. We worked with fiber.  We
had to pull it apart and put it on a bead. Then we rolled it
together with dish soap and hot water.  It has to dry until next week. It
was fun to learn something new.

In like a lion... by Guest Bloggers Joseph and Rose

Here is the week according to our two kindergartners celebrating birthdays this week, Joseph and Rose.

Happy Birthday to our two guest bloggers, Joseph and Rose!

We learned about one to one matching in our math class with Mrs. Jones. We are learning
how to compare sets of numbers.  We also acted out subtraction stories with Mrs. Jones.  
Sometimes we pretended to be bunnies and sometimes we pretended to fly kites.  
We had to figure out the math problem. Subtraction means taking away.

We snowshoed out to a stone wall.
It was a warm afternoon.  We are all
great on  our snowshoes.

It was too hot to wear to wear hats.

It was really fun to snowshoe.

We are learning how to get our snowshoes on and off.

We all help each other.

We tell the third grade class above us that they are really loud when
they take a brain break and dance.  We like to joke with them.
On Friday, they invited us to their classroom.

Third graders invited us to have a dance party to the song Happy.

It was fun. We followed along to the dance moves.

We went to the computer lab this week.  We decided if we liked lamb or lion
days. We typed our own sentences for the first time.
We have been learning about lamb and lion days in March.

We all like to use Kid Pix.

We learned a poem about lion and lamb days which means warm days and cold days.
We voted on what our favorite kind of day is.  

Exploring Together

We had a wonderful end to the month of February.  We finished up assessments for the second trimester with lots of fun activities in-between. Here were some of the highlights before vacation...

We had a silly time celebrating 100 Day! 

On our 100th day of school, we wrote about 100 things we would like
to have and 100 things we would not like to have.  We also practiced
 counting to 100 by 1s, 5s and 10s.  We played math games and shared
 the 100 objects we brought to school.

Valentine's Day was a great time.  Thanks to everyone who
sent in  treats or supplies for our party.  Our fancy friendship
 party wouldn't be complete without a little dancing!

We had the perfect snowy afternoon for some snowshoeing.

Stopping to take a break on the stone wall.

Snowshoeing is hard word!

Joseph walks along our trail to the vernal pool.

This is the spot where we will catch frogs in the spring.

A perfect afternoon before vacation!

Only two snowshoes fell off all afternoon...that's a new record!

Samantha enjoys our afternoon.

Making our own tail in the woods behind our school.

Lia and Alice help each other out!

Lucy snowshoes by the top of the picnic tables.
It will be a while before we see grass on our field!

A Look Ahead:

We will be very busy as we head into spring. When we return from winter break, we will celebrate Read Across America week with an assembly on Monday to honor Dr. Seuss.  We also have two field trips just around the corner.  One is to St. Paul's school to watch the Jr. Service League play. The other is to the Capital Center for the Arts to watch the Curious George play.  Look for more details and permission slips to be sent home soon.  

Our writers will begin to learn about a new type of writing in the third trimester, opinion or persuasive writing.   Opinion writing in kindergarten can be writing about your favorite pet, season, book, etc., and telling the reader why you feel this way.  We will continue to read, read, READ!  Thank you to everyone who has been practicing reading Book Buddy Books and/or WIN Group Books at home. It is so helpful in the classroom!  In math, we will be working on comparing sets of numbers as well as addition and subtraction stories.  

Happy March!