Friday Fun and Green Day!

Today was green day!  Green day is so much fun because we have lots of fun activities for green.  Ask your child about Go Away Big Green Monster.  We read the story, and then made our very own "big green monster" as a class.  Each child cut one part of our monster and glued it on.  Check out the pictures below!  Then, we each made small ones so we could have one to keep at home.  But, for now, they are haning in our hallway.  Ms. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom stopped by for a minute to talk with us and to get our picture made.  We watched the video this morning on BSLK t.v. 

GREEN

(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

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  G-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n,

I know how to spell green, g-r-e-e-n.

Caterpillars are green, and grasshoppers too.

I know how to spell green, g-r-e-e-n.

Here we are retelling Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?  by Bill Martin Jr.  We used character cut-outs to retell the story. 

During literacy time, we practiced reading our new sight words, I and am, by reading a pocket chart story.  Each child got to pick a sentence and come up and point to the words and read.  They were so excited that they were doing the reading!

Here are some pictures of our "big green monster" and the finished product. 

Each day we have been singing our alphabet sound songs from Heidi songs.  You can see her on our Promethean board.  The kids LOVE Heidi songs.  It's precious to watch them. 

In math, we began learning to sort.  Today we used m&m's to sort by color.  We sorted them on the Brown Bear characters from our story...then the best part...we got to EAT them!  Yum!

We sorted together using the ELMO so everyone could see well! 

Every Friday, if we build our rainbow, we get to visit the treasure chest.  Today was our first visit to it.  I didn't get everyone's pictures, but a few.  The kiddos were so excited to finally see what was inside that mystery chest!  What a GREAT week! 

Red Day!

Today was red day.  I keep forgetting our class color pictures, but I took pics of the kids tissue papering their red birds.  Below is our red song from Frog Street Press.  I'm also adding pictures of our math center activities for the day.

Red

(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)

R-e-d red, r-e-d, red.

I can spell red.

I can spell red.

Fire trucks are red.

Stop signs are red too!

R-e-d, r-e-d.

Brown Day!

Today was brown day!  We painted with shaving cream, glue, and brown paint.  When it dries, it will be puffy paint.  The kids had so much fun painting with popsicle sticks.  Below is our brown song that we are learning and put in our poetry journals.

Brown

(Tune: Bingo)

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There is a color we all know, Can you guess what it is?

b-r-o-w-n, b-r-o-w-n, b-r-o-w-n,

and that's how you spell brown.

Teddy bears and squirrels are brown,

Autumn leaves are too.

Chocolate candy's always brown,

Chocolate cake is always brown,

Chocolate milk is always brown.

We love brown, don't you?  Yes!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activities

Friday, we began our Brown Bear unit which correlates right along with our colors theme.  I read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? by Eric Carle to introduce the colors.  Then, we learned how to use our paintbrushes by painting a Brown Bear mural.  The kids loved it!  This was our first time painting for the new school year.  Two children worked together to paint one section of the color I assigned them.  When it is dry, we use it to match the characters, label the color sections, and to retell the story.  This year, we are doing our color days in the order of Brown Bear, so each day we just look at the mural to see what color is tomorrow's color.  Later in the day, we colored the Brown Bear characters, cut them apart and put them in a brown baggie.  We practiced retelling the story to a partner.  Enjoy the pics!

The finished product!

1st Day of Kindergarten 2010-2011

Our very first day of KINDERGARTEN was GREAT!  We had so much fun, met new friends, found some special places in our school that we will visit each week while we looked for Chester (we didn't find him, but he left us a special "kiss"), read stories, sang songs, went to p.e., colored, glued, and our most fun thing today was playing on the BIG playground.  Below are some pictures of the things we did today.

colored our first picture

sang the "Tooty Ta"

learning how to get our trays in the lunchroom

making our first TLC project, "Chester"

some were "sleepy heads" during rest time...we had a long day!

and, some weren't so sleepy...

See you tomorrow!

Oceans of Fun in Centers

Here we are working in our ocean centers.  We are telling time, adding, and subtracting in math centers.  I wanted to post a few pics to show what we are learning at school this time of year.