The Letter Game

One of our favorite classroom games! I hold up letter cards and the class has to say the letter and the sound. If they get it correct, they get a point (and I make a dramatic upset face- which they find hilarious) and if it is incorrect I get the point. As you can see they LOVE this game!




First week of kindergarten under our belt and having a great time!

The First Week

What a MOM learns the first week of kindergarten

http://www.yourmodernfamily.com/first-week-of-kindergarten/

Tie up all the lose ends...

School is approaching! And for every teacher, including PE teachers you can do one thing that will help make your child the teachers pet...teach them to tie their shoes! 

Here is a link to a YouTube video that is a simple step by step way to practice at home. If this one doesn't work for your child check out YouTube for other versions. 

http://youtu.be/LsFKxElIr_A

Are You Ready?

Did you know that there are some really important things you can be doing to get ready for kindergarten this fall? And they have nothing to do with ABCs or 123s. Check out this blog post about things you can start doing today to help your child walk in the door ready to learn!

http://www.harvardhomemaker.com/10-things-to-think-about-before-your-child-starts-kindergarten/

Michelangelo Artists!

It's the end of the year so its time to add a little extra fun into our learning. Today we learned about the artist Michelangelo and learned that he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so we decided that we had to try it for ourselves!  Parents be warned...they may be asking to this all summer, you may need to buy some extra tape!  

 

Math Words Video

We are beginning our unit on measurement and one of the new vocabulary words is the word: "attribute." Here is a short video of us describing the math term "attribute" in kindergarten vocabulary.

Field Trip!

Today we visited the Buffalo Botanical Gardens! http://www.buffalogardens.com/

The children learned about types of plants, different foods that are plants, seeds, and when I asked them the best part there were so many "favorite" things they couldn't choose!

 

  

 

 

Here we learned about different grains and the many foods that we eat that contain grains.





We loved exploring the many different plant houses




Spring in bloom



The Koi ponds were a definite favorite.







Here we learned about various fruits and the best part was squeezing our very own orange juice!






In the vegetable room we learned about eating different parts of plants, including roots and stems!