Growing Wild About Kindergarten

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Snow

This week, we read The Snowy Day. After reading the story, we decided what we thought the main idea of the story was. Then we charted the details from the story that supported our thoughts.

In our morning meeting, we welcomed everyone with a snowball fight. The children wrote their names on the paper, balled it up, and threw the paper balls back and forth. When the bell rang, we sat in a circle and unrivalled our snowball. We read the name and told that person, "Good Morning!"

We also brainstormed words that described ice. The children did a great job coming up with adjectives. We then took an ice cube and tried to melt it. The children rolled a die, then had to...

Blow on it.

Drop it.

Shake salt on it.

Put it down your shirt.

Hold it for 10 seconds.

Drop it in water.

Winter is Here!

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year! It didn't take us long to get right back into the routine of things.

January comes from the word Janus. It means forwards and backwards. On New Year's Day we look backwards to where we have been and forward to where we are going. Forward and backward are opposites. We had fun learning about opposites and we shared our New Year's Resolution. There sure is going to be a lot of clean rooms out there! My resolution is to make myself take pictures throughout the day. We get so busy in our room, I often forget, the batteries die, or I have put the camera down and can't remember where I put it!