Kind Kids in Kindergarten
See what our brains and imaginations up to!
March 14 - 18, 2016
This week's focuses were:
-Engineering
-Engineering
-Place Value (Hundreds)
-Nutrition and Balancing the 5 Food Groups
-St. Patrick's Day
-Story Writing
Engineering Fairy Tales!
Monday started the week with the grand finale of our Happily Ever After projects: the make and build challenges! Students donned on their engineer hats and got to work in collaboration. The process proved to not always be easy, but our groups successfully built: a new chair for Baby Bear; a house to protect the Three Pigs from the huffing and puffing Wolf; a zipline to get Rapunzel down safe from her tower; a shelter to protect Henny Penny from the falling sky!
The following gallery shows groups hard at work:
The following gallery shows groups hard at work:
Aaron and Caleb work on the walls and roof of their structure for Henny Penny.
Aarushi, Ali, Sanvi K., and Tommy begin to build their house to protect the Three Little Pigs from the Big Bad Wolf.
Betty Jane, Chris, Saanvi, and Aadhya test run their zipline to repel Rapunzel.
...and the Final Products!
Three Little Pigs' House (and outside trees too!)
Chair for Baby Bear (represented by Campbell's soup)
Strong roof and walls to protect Henny Penny!
Comfy basket to zipline Rapunzel down to safety!
Thumbs up to all groups!
Place Value Rocks to the Hundreds!
The class revisited our old activity of having to travel around the room and solve posters of base ten blocks. This time students worked in partners and had to count numbers to the three digits!
Chris and Andy discuss a problem.
Aadhya takes a moment to pose next to her partner Caleb :)
Saanvi G. and Tommy think hard.
Nutrition!
This week we've been focusing on how to be healthy! We discusses the different food groups, examples of each, and how it is important to balance all five since they serve different purposes. Students self-reflected on ways they are already healthy, and what they could do even more to improve. Eating more vegetables, exercising, and drinking water every day were all great examples.
Below, you can see the poster students helped me create, as I gave them photos of food and we discussed where to post them on "my plate".
Below, you can see the poster students helped me create, as I gave them photos of food and we discussed where to post them on "my plate".
St. Patrick's Day!
I'll admit it--my two favorite things are the color green and dressing up, so I couldn't help but celebrate St. Patty's with the kids! We were lucky to enjoy a variety of holiday themed activities.
Pulling in this topic this week on nutrition, students brainstormed green vegetables and fruits they like to eat!
The class crafted leprechaun masks to wear as we delivered our handmade "pots of gold" to our Reading Buddies!
Saanvi G. is seen working on our matching rainbow Place Value puzzles.
Betty Jane and Sanvi K. pose with their 3rd Grade reading buddy, Ginger.
The kindergartener leprechauns present their pots of gold for their reading buddies!
Leo and Caleb pose with their reading buddy.
The last day of school before Spring Break was filled with fun PTO pizza, a spring flower craft, and a final Read Across America Month assembly in the afternoon. Homework was placed in students' binders, but is not expected to be completed and turned in until the end of our returning week, April 1st. Enjoy the time off with family and friends!