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!

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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.

Thank you to our two guest readers this week!
 Connor and Griffin's mothers came in to share two great stories!

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Inspired by the story, Snowmen At Night, students used black construction paper and white paint to create a scene of what their snowman might do at night. This will be turned into yet another class book. Their ideas were fantastic! We had everything from snowmen going to school to rollerskating! This week we also had yet another guest reader and introduced InstaSnow in our sensory tub.