We Have a Dream...

Last week we spent time talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and all the great things he did for the world. Books like Martin Luther King Jr. and Martin's Big Words helped us understand Martin's dream.

Next, we wrote and drew about our own dreams we have for the world.

The Mitten Readers' Theater

We have been reading several books by author Jan Brett. One of our favorites was The Mitten. After examining the setting, characters, problem, and solution of the story, we read the story in a "readers' theater" format. 

Miss Martinez - Getting to Know Us

We have loved welcoming Miss Martinez into our kindergarten classroom. She has been leading morning meeting and has taught us greetings in many different languages. As one of our morning meeting activities, Miss Martinez helped us create "getting to know you" posters so she could learn about the kindergartners interests. She already has created lessons based on these passions such as basketball, pencil machine pencils, football, and more! Miss Martinez made a video of the kindergartners sharing some of their favorite things.

Kindergarten Snowballs

After reading Lois Elhert's book, Snowballs, our minds were spinning with ideas of "junk" we could use to create our own "snowballs" like Lois. We used lots of teamwork to create our snow creatures from start to finish.

Snowmen 2014 from Katie Zuehlke on Vimeo.

Delightful December

Cookie baking, caroling, Kwanzaa beads, Grinch Day, 5th grade plays, the dreidel game...December was fast and busy in kindergarten! So much action, I needed to make 2 videos! The first one is from Grinch day and the second is from the rest of our December fun.

Make a free slideshow

Fruit Feast

Fruit Feast, Fruit Feast
Yum, Yum, Yum!
Which fruit is your favorite one?

The Little Red Hen

In readers' workshop we have been making text to text connections. After reading many versions of The Little Red Hen, we performed our own version of the story. **You may need to turn up the volume...some parts are a little tricky to hear. We'll try again with another play soon!