We will be having our Kindergarten field day tomorrow afternoon. It is NOT a dress down day. Students should come to school in dress code.

This Week in KD - Video Maker

This Week in KD

This Week in KD - Video Maker

Happy Birthday, Alex!

We celebrated Alexandra's birthday with a homemade treat and compliments!

Special Friends Day!

It was a great day in KD as we welcomed our special friends into our classroom. We shared all the great things we have been doing in our growing unit, our classroom routines, our writing and reading skills, Spanish and a peek into the year's events with a movie in the theatre. Thank you to all who attended and helped to make this our students first Special Friends Day extra special.

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Happy Birthday, Connor!

We celebrated Connor's birthday! Hope it was a great one, Connor!

We are growing!!!

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Goodbye!

The Kindergarten has been working on a goodbye song for the Seniors, a song written by our own Mr. Gardener of the 3rd grade in our Lower School. We will be singing this on Special Friends' Day to our senior buddies- too sweet!

Thank You!

Thank you to Alexandra's mother who came in to read to us this week. We love when our parents come in to visit and guest read!

Happy Birthday, Jack!

We celebrated Jack's birthday this week with a Star Wars chronicle and light saber cupcakes!

Happy Birthday, Jack!

COSI on Wheels

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Another busy week!

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Phew! What a busy week!!!

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• Making snuggly manatee friends

• Exploring E day 

• Seniors host a game of Duck Duck Goose

• Dr. Terwin's shark presentation and Scuba with Mrs. Terwin

• Measuring the lengths of sharks 

Signs of spring...

A family of raccoons were discovered on our playground and quickly relocated to the woods. Enjoy this footage that was captured on the playground by our helpful grounds staff. Spring has finally sprung!

Happy Birthday, Scott!

Today was Scott's birthday. He and his dad read a fantastic story about a toothy shark and his tiny nugget sized fish friend. What a great connection to our theme! We also enjoyed a delicious fish shaped, jiggly snack. Thank you, Scott and family, for making Scott's birthday a special day for all of us.

Thank you, Guest Reader

Thanks to Aubree's dad who came in to read to our class. He read a classic, Miss Rumphius. This is a great story to preview our upcoming unit, growing. Thank you for taking the time to come in and share with us.

The Mighty Octopus is Complete!!!

Lost and Found

These pictures were discovered. In this slideshow the Mighty Buckeyes are working on their sea stars and our class manatee. For the sea stars they were asked to first draw a symmetrical five armed star and then they used a variety of materials to create texture and make their stars realistic. The manatee was created to piggy back on Mr. Cicetti's art lesson, pointillism. We used different shades of gray and white to give our manatee color variation and add realistic details.

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Building the Octopus

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Thank you to Aashi's mom for coming in to read before break. We really enjoy having our parents in to read. The kids really enjoy it!

Happy Birthday, Nicholas & Sasha!

This month the Mighty Buckeye had no birthday to celebrate so we decided to celebrate our July birthdays. Sasha and Nicholas both read their favorite stories to the class and shared a delicious treat. Thank you to both Nicholas' and Sasha's parents for coming in on these unofficial birthdays. We really appreciate you making the time to come in on these special days to celebrate your child! 

Only in Kindergarten, right?

The Y's Guys

Ask me about the Y's guys! One Y is a bandit and steals the long e sound. We can find the bandit at the end of two syllable words. The one wearing glasses is in disguise. He pretends to be the long i sound in one syllable words. And regular Y he starts a word and make the y-y-y- sound like in our Phonics Dance.

Thank you, Guest Reader!

Thank you to both Scott and his mom for a great reading of Fish is Fish by Leo Leoni. 

This is such a fun one to share. Thank you for taking the time to come in and read to the Mighty Buckeyes!

Oobleck!

Oobleck! - slideshow

A peek at our new stations..

A new sight word game using flyswatters and a Twister game

 Water beads in the Sensory Tub allow students to dig and discover animals whose names begin and end with consonant blends and vowels

In the Pocket Chart students build sentences to explain how ocean animals move 

In the Lily Pad, students scan the QR code that will lead them to a short video on many ocean animals

In the ABC/ Word Station, students sort beginning and ending -sh words

In the Fine Motor station, students strengthen their fingers using melty beads and ocean animals templates

Splash in the Ocean

After reading Splash in the Ocean, students began working on creating a new class book to share. Each student chose one ocean animal to draw, outline and paint. These animals will become the characters for their page in our class version. Students also came up with their own version of the text. Thinking about how their animal moves, we kept with the same pattern of the book and came up with silly words too."All the fish are swimming in the ocean, floppy floppy floppy floppy..splash"You are gonna LOVE this one!

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Our Final Star of the Week

Ryan is the finale for our Mighty Buckeye Stars! He did such a great job sharing his pictures and answering our questions. Did you know that Ryan LOVES Science? Do you also know that he likes to go to Orlando Flordia and play tag. Ryan did a wonderful job waiting patiently for his turn to be our Star of the Week. An incredibly patient and kind kindergartener. Thank you Ryan!

Valentines' Day 2014 - slideshow

Happy Presidents' Day!

To honor our former president, Mr. Lincoln, we used different units of measurement to measure how tall Abraham Lincoln was. Using a cartoon drawing done to scale, we found that he was over 600 unifix cubes tall! This was interesting to see how many of our kindergarten friends wanted to measure from the top if his hat rather than his head. We also used our measuring tape to measure using inches and feet. Did you know that he was 6 foot 4 inches?! ( I always thought he may have been taller!)

A Minute to Win it!

This activity allowed your Mighty Buckeye to stretch and flex their fine motor skills and persevere with a challenge for Valentines' Day. Each student needed to nibble down a Twizzler to the correct length of their love arrow, stack five conversation hearts, make two Swedish fish fit into their goldfish bowl and place their M & Ms onto the tiny lined up hearts. It was great! 

It took us just over 4 minutes for us all to complete the tasks! Wow!

Thank You, Guest Reader!

Thank you to Ryan's mother for coming in to read to us last week. The Rainbow Fish is one of my favorites!

Happy 100th Day!

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100th Day Highlights

We read the story Pigs In Hiding and then searched our room to find 100 pigs that were 'hiding'. We did it! Then each student was responsible for placing their 6 found pigs into the hundreds chart. We practiced identifying numbers 1-100 and skip counting by 10's, 2's and 5's. It was so much fun!

We also made Fruit Loop necklaces where we counted out 100 fruit loops. Most of us counted 100 using colored groups of 10. This was an excellent strategy to keep track of all those delicious loops!

 Finally, we ended our day with a 100th day snack. Each table was responsible for making ten cups of ten snack items. We added 100 snacks at a time and tallied the total to see how many snacks were combined. Who knew 1600 snacks would be so delicious?!

No 100th day would be complete without taking a look at 100 items. What does that look like? We took the time to share and compare the 100 items each child brought in and talked about why they looked different when they all had 100.