These Beach Buddies are amazing readers! Almost every week this year, 100% of our class met their at home Razzle Dazzle Reading goal. Mrs. Reimer thinks we just might hold the record for the most 100% weeks! WOW!!! On Friday we had a Razzle Dazzle pizza party to celebrate our accomplishments! We will be sure to keep up this reading over the summer too! :)

We loved sharing our "three words" video with out families last Wednesday and thought we would now share it with the world! Inspired by Good Morning America's "Your Three Words" segment, here are our "three words" about our kindergarten year.

Check out artsonia for uploaded images of our artwork from our art class with Mrs. Pawelski. You can search by school name or town. Choose kindergarten and click next a few times to get to our class. Our budding artists are looking good!

The kindergartners are "Going Green"! In honor of Earth Day, we celebrated with an "Inventions Party". After collecting recycling at home, we spent Friday morning creating, creating, creating! Check out these amazing inventors....their future looks bright!

During community writing, we created a chart about the settings of stories. We brainstormed a list of places we could go where stories would take place. Next we used Kid Pix to draw our settings.

After reading Freight Train by Donald Crews, we created our own train in the hallway. As we painted our train cars, we used sponges to smear the ends of our cars to create the look of "speed" just like Donald! We added onomatopoeia to remind our viewers of the sounds trains make. Choo Choo! Click Clack, Click Clack! Toot, Toot!

With our study of mental images, we read the book Birds by Kevin Henkes. After reading Birds, we sketched our mental images on sticky notes. Later, we each had a chance to fancy up our mental images by using the tools on artpad.com. The slide show below shares our thinking! I added a link to artpad on the left side of the blog in case these budding artists want to do some more creating at home.

Birds by Kevin Henkes - Our Mental Images on PhotoPeach