Gingerbread Houses!

I LOVE this activity!  Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here are a few.

Create your own digital ecard To all the parents who helped ...............  THANK YOU!

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Only one more week until Winter Break.  We have been busy with reindeer, candy canes, gingerbread, big Santas and lots more preparing for the holidays.  We started the month off by reading and learning about reindeer.  The children made factual books with reindeer faces for the covers and also made deer to decorate our hallway.  We did a guided drawing of a reindeer and used that to decorate the bags that our snowman ornaments will go home in.

Here are some of the big Santas that we have started making.

Our class is participating in a holiday card exchange with other classes from across our country and Canada.  As cards arrive, we post them on our bulletin board.  Here is what our board looks like so far.  We are expecting about 15 more cards.

Next week we will be making our gingerbread houses and TLC elves and having a pajama day. 

Merry Christmas

Soldiers, Pilgrims, and Indians

It has been awhile since the last post.  We celebrated Veteran's Day by making TLC soldiers.  They decorated our hallway for the week before Veteran's Day.  Thank you to all the military who keep us safe and guard our freedom!

We are in the process of completing a two week unit on Thanksgiving.  We have spent a lot of time reading and talking about how things are "now" compared to how they were "long ago".  We made TLC Pilgrim portraits and also Indians.  We read many books about the Thanksgiving story and even acted out a sound story of the first Thanksgiving.

The children made paper plate Pilgrims that are sailing on the Mayflower on our bulletin board.

The children wrote and illustrated stories about what they are thankful for.  They also colored and cut out turkeys and made signs for the turkeys to hold recommending that we eat something besides turkey.  Those Chick-fil-A cows have some competition now!

Our class is going to be participating in a Christmas card exchange with 30 other classes from across the USA and Canada.  We had a fun time trying to get a good class photo for our card.  Of course when you take a serious photo, the children always want to make a silly one.  Here is one of our silly ones!

We will let you know how the Christmas card exchange goes.  We will be posting our cards on the bulletin board with a map.  Have a great Thanksgiving!

Spooktacular Fall Fun

We had the best time this week!  After reading Go Away Big Green Monster, we made our own green monsters.  Everyone who has seen them hanging out in the hall has said that they are the best.  The children were amazingly creative.  So here is a slide show of them all.

This free slideshow made with Smilebox We read many monster stories but we also read about fall and how the leaves change colors.  The children made cute scarecrows to add to our fall bulletin board display. With Mrs. B's help, the children also made fall crowns.  Here are the kings and queens of fall.

Customize a slideshow design Next week things are going to be a little batty in Kindergarten as Spooktacular Fall fun continues.

Fire Safety and Funny Feet

We were busy learning all about fire safety this week.  The children colored and cut out Fire Safety Sam.  These are out in the hallway.  Each Sam is holding a fire safety rule written by the children with their best guess spelling and some help from Mrs. B.  The children also made TLC firemen and fire trucks.  These are the cutest things, especially the firemen.  I love their different facial expressions.

Fire Safety Sam

Part of our impressive hallway display

The children have been practicing their reading skills since the beginning of the year during Read to Self time every day.  This week they began to learn how Read to Someone works.  Partners sit EEKK or elbow to elbow and knee to knee.  They share a book between them and take turns reading.   

Kadyn and Aubrie practice reading to each other.

 On Friday we celebrated Funny Feet Day to help us remember the letter Ff.

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Apples Apeel to Us!

We finished up our apple theme this past week.  We had a taste test where everyone tasted red, green, and yellow apples and then drew and colored an apple to match their favorite.  We sorted our choices to see which was the favorite in our class.  More children liked red apples! 

We made paper plate apple cores.  We had to roll the dice and count the dots to see how many seeds our apple cores would have.

We finished up our science unit on living and nonliving things by observing worms with magnifiers.  That was a wild and crazy afternoon.  We also read about fish and drew a fish and labeled its' parts in our Math and Science Journals.

In art, Mrs. Jones helped the children make beautiful sunset landscape pictures.  They are on display outside the cafeteria.

The children are always making interesting things during center time.  Check this out.

We will be moving on to fire safety and monsters in the weeks ahead.

Quick Photos

Traffic Signal TLC project

Pete the Cat

Baa Baa Black Sheep

 The children actually worked for three days on these sheep to go with the Baa Baa Black Sheep rhyme.  They don't look much like sheep but they will make you smile. 

Line Art done with Mrs. Jones in art class