Young writers sharing their stories!

Kindergarteners have lots of stories to tell.  We began this year by telling some of our stories. Then we worked to create an illustration rubric to draw a picture to help tell the story.  Now many are labeling or beginning to write the story that goes with their picture.  Thanks to the wonderful support of Donor's Choose, our class can now record our stories to share!  Here is our first attempt at sharing some of the stories we were working on this week.

Young Writers!

We have been enjoying great books and looking at what good writers and illustrators do to tell their stories.  We created an illustration rubric and we are now telling our stories through our pictures.  Notice how these young writers find different workspaces to work on their stories!

Our most beautiful tree!

We have a beautiful tree right outside our classroom!  We have loved watching the leaves change colors.  Now we are watching to see how long it takes for all the leaves to fall off!

Fall Fun

Kindergarten Bakers

        After our trip to the apple orchard, the Penguins wanted to try making an apple pie!

our tools

ingredients

measuring

mixing

rolling the dough

into the oven

Perfect!

Delicious!

Fall observations

                                  Look at what we see happening to our tree! It sparked some wondering questions-
Why do leaves change colors?  Why do the leaves fall? We will see if we can answer these questions as we observe the tree outside our classroom.
 

                                             

Apple picking and Snowball Fight

We had a perfect day for our trip to the apple orchard.  While we were there, we learned what happened to the apple tree in each season. We took a hayride, picked apples and had a snack of apple cider and an apple donut! We wondered what the advantages and disadvantages of having an orchard on top of hill might have been.

The highlight of the week was our first indoor snowball fight!  

This week the scientists in room 12 used their sense of hearing. We listened to different kinds of music and drew lines to represent each kind of music.  

Which line is classical?

Which line is jazz?

Which line is rock? 

A very busy week!

  This was a very busy week! We wrote and shared animal stories. We used our sense of sight to examine things in the classroom and on our nature walk.  On Friday everyone enjoyed working in the SPARK lab on the STEM challenge with our third grade buddies.  

Students choose a good spot to do their writing

Some students are beginning to use the sounds they hear to help when writing! 

Students enjoy sharing their work! 

We took a close look to see what
might be causing the plants leaves to turn
brown

What a bright colored leaf!

looking closely at what we found

 

creating a plan

creating a plan

working together

figuring things out

Stem Challenge with our Third grade buddies!

                                                 

                                                Seeing if it will work

making adjustments

Getting help from a friend

completing the task! 

on display

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A peak at our Literacy Block

Our Literacy Block is organized around the Daily 5.  Students work in groups and pairs to complete different activities to build fluency, reading stamina, and letter/word knowledge.  Here are a few pictures of what it looks like in our classroom during our literacy block.

Choral reading of a poem and then hunting for letters or words. 

Handwriting work with Ms. McBrian

Rhyme concentration!

sorting pictures by beginning sounds

Building letters out of play dough

Fluency practice and hunting for letters.

building our reading stamina

Reading to our friends!