Delightful December

December in kindergarten brings lots of joy! We were busy with Grinch Day, caroling, Polar Express pajama day, cooking baking, ornament making, plays, and more. We made many happy memories!

ChatterPix

This week we tried out a new app called ChatterPix Kid.

 

 This app invites us to take a picture, draw a mouth, add our voice, and make the picture talk. Pretty awesome!! :) We took pictures of book pages and shared our thinking about the characters. This is just the beginning of great things we can try with ChatterPix Kid.

ChatterPix Characters from Katie Zuehlke on Vimeo.

Fabulous Fall Fun

Better late than never!! We had a fun November with turkey disguises, Scarecrow Day, and a yummy Fruit Feast. Thanks for your help with these special projects and days!

The Three Little Pigs...Lego Style!

I'll huff...and I'll puff...and I'll blow your house in ! These words were said often in our classroom this week. We enjoyed reading several different versions of The Three Little Pigs. While reading, we made book to book connections and analyzed the characters. Ask your kindergartner about his/her favorite selection. On Friday, we used our Lego sets to retell, focus on vocabulary, and share our thinking about the pigs and wolf. Without much direction from me, these kindergartners were creative, independent thinkers! Each kindergartner shared one pig or wolf smart thought in the video below.


The Three Little Pigs....Lego Style! from Katie Zuehlke on Vimeo.

Names and Sounds

We spend much of our time in kindergarten learning about letter sounds. Recently, we made a name chart listing something that starts the same as our name. Next we used the app SeeSaw to take a picture, add drawing, and add our voice. Our books buddies helped a little, but we are getting better and better at sharing our learning on the iPad.

Our Alphabet Movie from Katie Zuehlke on Vimeo.

The 50th Day of School

We definitely are 50 days smarter...look how far we have come in just 50 days! On Friday we celebrated the 50th day and what a perfect day it was--filled with floats, socks hops, 50's stations, and more! Check out our dance moves in this video. We would have fit in perfectly in the 50's!

Whooooo is learning about owls?

Now that we understand the concept of our "schema" (all the ideas we already know), we did some research to make our schema GROW for owls. We learned facts from books, magazines, and online. After drawing our owls, we wrote about a few facts, and then shared our thinking in this video.




Owl Facts 2015 from Katie Zuehlke on Vimeo.