Rainforest Collaborative Projects

Our class did a study about rainforest animals. The children were divided into small groups. Each group selected an animal to research and write about. They then worked together to create the animal. I think they did a great job!

Back To School!

I know that it has been quite some time since my last post, but I thought that I would post some new pictures of my classroom. :)

Kindergarten Fun!

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Until We Meet Again....

We were so sad to say "Good-bye" to our student intern, Miss Acuff.  We have loved having her and will miss her greatly!  We wanted to send her off prepared to start her very own classroom so the students worked together in a top secret way to bring in gifts for her.  Since we refuse to say "goodbye", we'll just say "Until we meet again". Thank you for being our teacher, thank you for being our friend!
 

We are Thankful

Every year, as part of our study about Thanksgiving Traditions, the kindergarten students participate in a Native American parade. All of the other classes stand outside of their rooms to clap and cheer for us.  We are thankful for our school and for the love that we are shown by the older students!   The above pictures were taken as we prepared for our parade.

"Down on Grandpa's Farm"

We have been learning all about farms and farm animals.  We concluded our unit by having some animal friends visit us.  A special thanks to Brandon G.'s family for bringing a goat, a bunny, and a chicken to school!

As part of our unit of study, we divided the children into small groups to work on animal research projects.  Each group worked together to select, and make an animal of interest.  Each group visited our learning commons to do research on their animal with Mrs. Merrit.  Thank you Mrs. Merrit for your help! 

Each student painted a pictue of their favorite farm animal.  We then used wooden cubes to measure the animal's height.  We also used phonetic spelling to write about our animal.





"Squirrel Scientist" Voicethread

Be sure to visit our voice thread about squirrels!  We had a great time reading about and researching on the internet to learn squirrel facts.  We even had a special squirrel visitor "Petey Girl"!http://voicethread.com/share/2298145/