Boy, have we been busy in here!

First, we had fun last Friday in our Halloween costumes.  Sorry the cold rain came that night but I hope you had fun anyway.

I am so impressed with the students taking it upon themselves to write a book at home–all on their own!  WOW!

Meet one of our authors-Leo Wetzel

Great job Leo.  Thanks for sharing your story.  It was interesting to read what happened when the boy’s family climbed the tree.  They sure did travel!

Stay tuned for another author tomorrow.  Who will it be??

Yesterday we spent all afternoon doing math and science.  First we used magnifying glasses to check out some pumpkins.  We sure found some interesting features when we took close looks.  Then we predicted which pumpkin would have more seeds…Pumpkin A     or    Pumpkin B.  We entered our Predictions  in our Science Journal.  Then we cut open the pumpkins and dug out the seeds.  Take a look.

I know I didn’t get everyone-I was busy helping to keep the seeds/pulp on the table and washing hands.  They sure enjoyed emptying those pumpkins.

Next we entered our data findings into our Science Journal.

I predict…         I learned…

Today we spent the entire morning reading, predicting, discussing the story “The Little Red Hen.”  (It starts with planting a “seed”–get the connection?  The kids did.)  Then we identified and made the characters.  Next we wrote verbs (action words) that described what the hen was doing in the story.  (Plant, cut, grind, bake)  They cut out the characters and verbs and can retell the story.  Ask your student to retell the story to you.

This afternoon we spent with Math and Science again.  First we predicted if pumpkins would sink or float.  We tallied our responses.

We entered our predictions in our Science Journals.  Back to the table to perform the experiment!!

Boy, were we surprised!!  Pumpkins float!!  (You should have heard the squeals of surprise!)

Next we tried paper clips.  Sink?  Float?

We were confused…pumpkins are heavier that paper clips and yet pumpkins float and paper clips sink?  Hmmm

I wonder what we’ll discover tomorrow?

Stay tuned.  Authors   Scientists   Mathematicians    We are thinkers in Kindergarten!

REMINDER- Half Day of School tomorrow.

Mrs. Smith

P.S.  Keep up that good reading every night.  Readers are Leaders and Readers are Thinkers