Grinning Grinches

What makes the Grinch grin? The kindergartners know!

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Grinning Grinches 2021

B, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, BAT FACTS!

 We are bat experts! Listen to our bat facts below. 

Talking Turkeys

Those tricky turkeys definitely did not get eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. Their disguises were amazing! We used the app Chatter Kids to make our turkeys talk! Enjoy! 

The Pumpkin Gate Challenge

 We are always up for a good challenge! After reading about 5 pumpkins on a gate, we took on the challenge of creating a gate for our pumpkin. We learned about team work, patience, and perseverance. 

K Birthday Song

We love to celebrate birthdays in Kindergarten! We sing a special "kindergarten" birthday song to our birthday friends. Enjoy the song and video below. You're whole family could play along! :) 

Our Strong Schema

In readers' workshop we have been learning about our schema. Schema is the prior knowledge we have about a topic. Everyone's schema is different because our experiences are different. We thought about some topics that was have a STRONG schema for and wrote and drew about them in the video below.

Goal Getters

We made personal goals for our kindergarten year and used those goals to make a set of classroom guidelines. Our guidelines will help us all reach our goals!  #goalgetters

ABC and Me

We are working on beginning letter sounds and writing our name with one capital letter and the rest lowercase. This name project helped us with both of those skills! 

Our Day in K 2021

In case you missed the video at Explore K: 

Our Forever Books 2021

We are readers! Check out our Forever Books ~ maybe you will find a few of your favorites too! 

Meet the Beach Buddies

 Enjoy these Kindergarten smiles! Can your kindergartner tell you about some new friends? 

First Day of K

First Day of K 2021

My Smilebox Creation

We are Engineers!

Last week we read the book The Most Magnificent Thing. 

We used sticky cubes to make our own "magnificent things". We are creative, smart engineers! Hear about our ideas below. 

We are Pig Experts!

We have been learning about pigs in kindergarten! We are amazed at all the facts we have learned. Listen below to hear some of our favorite facts. 

Inventions Day 2021

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - the theme of Inventions Day 2021. We used team work, problem solving, and creativity to make fantastic inventions- Enjoy! 

The Turtle Song

We love going to music with Mrs. Smallfield. Enjoy this class favorite song below!

Our How-To Stories 2021

WOW! We have become rockstars at writing HOW-TO Stories. Click the link to learn some ideas from us!

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Habitat Research 2021

We are habitat experts! We worked in groups to research our habitat and make a poster sharing our learning. 

Hawaii 2021

Aloha! We loved our imaginary trip to sunny Hawaii. From playing in the sand and doing the hula to island explore stations and a fishy snack- it was an awesome day! A perfect way to head into spring break. 

Leprechaun Traps 2021

Wow -  What great ideas we have for catching those Leprechauns! This was a perfect STEM project that challenged our creativity, thinking, and patience! 

Book Reviews 2021

Enjoy some book recommendations from the kindergartners! We have been writing book reviews during writers' workshop and wanted to share a favorite review with you. Click the link below to enjoy! 

K Book Reviews 2021

100th Day Red Carpet 2021

Blow a whistle, 

Give a cheer. 

The 100th Day of School is here. 

Let's have a party, 

Let's celebrate. 

The 100th Day is really great! 

We are Penguin Experts!

We are penguin experts! Ms. Pfannenstein helped us learn about penguins with books, videos, and charts. We shared our smart penguin facts in the video below. 

Our 100th Day Wishes

Blow a whistle, Give a cheer.

The 100th Day of School is here!

Let's have a party, Let's celebrate.

The 100th Day is really great! 

Click the like below to hear about our wishes for the 100th Day. 

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Spot of Kindness

We are Spots of Kindness! Now we challenge YOU to be a SPOT of Kindness too. 

Windblown 2021

Windblown is a delightful story about shapes that were blown in the wind to create images. At the end of the book the shapes blew right over to each of us and we created our own mental images from the story. You will love our amazing creativity in the video below. 

Shape Robots

Shape Robots for the win! Ms. Pfannenstein helped us learn about putting shapes together and we created these cool robots. Find out more below! 

Snowballs 2021

Author Lois Ehlert was our inspiration for our Snowball project this week. Her book Snowballs gave us ideas for decorating our own snow creatures. We are creative kinders! 

Our Strong Schema

We have been learning that schema is all the information that sticks in our brain. Each of us have different schema because our experiences are different. We wrote and drew about our schema this week.

Delightful December 2020

December brought many joyful days to Kindergarten! We delivered poinsettias, decorated cookies, caroled outside, had a fun green Grinch Day, compared Gingerbread stories, explored STEM and creativity in our own "North Pole Workshop", and loved eating our tasty cookies in our PJ's.