Our Bird Mental Images

In readers' workshop we have been learning that strong readers make mental images when they read. One of our favorite mental image books was Birds by Kevin Henkes.

Our favorite mental images (movies in our mind!) are below.

Go Cards!

What an exciting week in Annandale! One of the week's highlights was our send off for the boys basketball team on Wednesday afternoon. Instead of just waving to the bus, we were thrilled to see the entire team walking along the sidewalk giving high 5's to all the AES students. What a special Cardinal memory! Here are some pics from the day. Press play and you can click on a picture to zoom in.

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Digital Writing Celebration

For our last writing celebration, Miss Martinez helped us publish our books online. We used an app called "Shadow Puppet" to take pictures of our writing and record the narration. In this unit we focused on ellipsis, comeback lines, "show not tell", "many moments" stories, and adding an About the Author page. Check them out by clicking the link below. They really are fantastic!!

http://kindergartenbeachbuddies.blogspot.com/p/writing.html

Our Jungle Drawings

In art last month, the kindergartners learned about drawing jungle animals. Their awesome drawings can be found on www.artsonia.com where you can purchase merchandise with the artwork. A big thank you to our art teacher, Mrs. Pawelski, for scanning all of their images onto the website. Your child's personal code was sent home earlier in the year. Otherwise, you can also search by school and easily find the artwork.  A video of their drawings is below.

Valentine's Day 2014

Valentine's Day and the 100th Day in one week....what excitement! The video below captures some smiles, love, and fun of last week.

The Very Busy Spider Readers' Theater

During our Eric Carle author's study we performed one of our favorite books, The Very Busy Spider, in readers' theater form. Watch our budding actors and actresses below!

Our Penguin Research

Penguins here, penguins there.

Penguins are everywhere! 

Miss Martinez helped us become penguin experts. Hear our facts below.