ABC'S of Winter

The kids put their own spin on what happens in the winter.  I was very pleased with their creativity in finding words that they could mold into the assignment of going with winter. 

Another Day of Learning!

Today we were learning characteristics of winter, estimating and adding, reading from a favorite author Mo Williams, and discussing the difference between needs and wants.  It was a very productive day! :)

Just Another Day in K3!

Today I was just looking around at some of the learning going on in the classroom.  There is nothing "mind blowing" other than a group of five and six year olds reading, writing, researching, and having a great time doing it.  I would call that a success!

What We Know About Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank You Mystery Reader!

We LOVED the Curious George and the Penguin book today.  It was the perfect ending to our week.

Penguin Experts!

This kids used the iPad ap show-me to create a fact sheet about penguins.  We have read many non-fiction books and researched on Pebblego.com and Pocket Zoo.   *everyone made one, but they didn't all make it to publishing.  I will add when they get done. 

Brennen's Penguin

Gisele's Penguin 

Kathleen's Penguin 

Lily's Penguin 

Ty's Penguin 

Lauren's Penguin 

Sofia's Penguin 

Audrey's Penguin 

Parmida's Penguin 

Koen's Penguin 

Riddhi's Penguin 

Matthew's Penguin 

Sydney's Penguin 

Aadarsh's Penguin 

Caiden's Penguin 

Juan's Penguin 

 

 

 

 

Science Experiment!

Kids had to predict which would make the largest explosion on a grade level graph.

We had to go outside for this kind of fun!  Here they are lined up and ready to go!

Countdown is ON!

Now THIS is fun!

During our Jan Brett author study we came across a story with a geiser.  Our class decided to make some of our own.  We began with four diffrent bottles of diet soda and four packs of Mentos.  Our guiding question was, "which one will make the biggest explosion." The kids made predictions in their science journals and then had to wait 4 DAYS because of the rain to conduct the investgation.  We discovered that the geisers wemt in order from Sunkist, Cherry 7Up, 7Up, and Diet Coke with the greatest explosion.  How could we tell?  In addition to actually watching the height of each explosion we measured the remaining soda that was left inside the bottle!  The bottles with the least soda left had to have gone the highest because it lost the most liquid!  The best part of this entire progect, other than the sheer joy of 5 year old excitement, was that the kids figured this out ON THEIR OWN!
I will post pictures and video on Monday when I am back on my computer.  The iPad isnt working like I anticipated.  I just wanted you to be able to understand what great things are going on in your kids minds!  Have a great weekend!