High Tech High Touch

We had so much fun when High Tech High Touch visited all of the Kindergarteners with a hands-on learning experience all about Weather!  

We made our own test tube clouds!

 We had a wonderful scientist leading us through all of our experiments!

 We made our own tornadoes!  This was one of the learner's favorite activities!

 How cool is this!

We had so much fun learning all about different types of weather!

Thank you to the PTO for sponsoring this special event!

Shapes All Around Us

We have been having fun learning all about shapes last week and we will continue learning more about shapes this week!

Check out the following links for some fun shape activities that you can explore at home!

Shapeville

http://www.tvokids.com/games/shapeville

Shape Construction

http://www.abcya.com/shapes_geometry_game.htm

Shapes Bingo

http://www.abcya.com/shapes_colors_bingo.htm

Starfall Shapes

http://more2.starfall.com/m/math/geometry-content/load.htm?f&d=demo&n=enviro-shapes&y=1

Pattern Blocks

http://mathtoybox.com/patblocks3/patblocks3.html

Penguin Flipped Classroom Lesson

 Our first Flipped Classroom Lesson was a success!

Thank you for working with your learners at home to research penguins!

We used the information that the students found at home and created life size Adelie, African, King, and Emperor penguins!  We used the measurements that the learners located to measure and mark the height of each different penguin.  The students then located pictures of their penguin and used the pictures to illustrate their penguin as closely to the actual picture as possible.

Once our penguins were complete, we measured them with several different types of non standard units such as unifix cubes, paper clips, pencils, and popsicle sticks.

Each one of our penguins is standing in the hallway now and we had fun seeing which penguin we were the closest in heighth with.

November and December

We were very busy during the months of November and December!

Our favorite E Time during December was creating Gingerbread Houses! 

The learners were so creative and I loved seeing their amazing houses!

 For a special treat during one of our November E Times, we created yummy graham cracker turkey snacks as we prepared for Thanksgiving!

We also had such a great time during our Kindergarten Pow Wow!

We can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us!

Black and White Day

 Yesterday was Black and White Day in K4!

See if your child can tell you some of the things that we brainstormed that are black, white, as well as both black and white!

We created dalmatian ears during E Time since dalmatians are black and white!

We were also treated to a special black and white snack of milk and Oreos!

Be sure to ask your learner about their black and white symmetrical painting.  What did they think their painting looked like when they unfolded their paper?

Happy Black and White Day from K4!