Ms. Roelfs Last Day :(

Today was Ms. Roelfs last day in our classroom. We were so sad to see her go! 
She is going to be a great teacher!

Hugs before leaving

What a nice class picture!

Uh oh!  :)

Playing "Top It"

A favorite game during math time is "Top It"! They have it available on an App too. :) 

We Are Thankful!

Our awesome practicum teacher Ms. Roelfs put together a video of the students reading what they are thankful for.  Ms. Roelfs read books about Thanksgiving and then she helped the class make a list of things/people they are thankful for.  They wrote about what they are thankful for and drew pictures to go with their writing. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrEtL3mmhQ&feature=youtu.be

Check out the video....so cute! 

BOO!

The kids love making little books that they can read.  After finishing our books they took turns reading their books to a buddy. 

Bat Addition

During math today the kids played "Bat Addition". They rolled two dice, wrote the addition problem on their sheet and then covered up the answer on their game board. 

Kindergarten Research

Iowa Core includes a research component for every grade level.  We decided to do some research on bats.  We started by thinking of things we know (or think we know) about bats. (schema) Then we read informational books about bats. We found that our schema about bats was great and we also learned new things that we could list. 
We are working on our own book "All About Bats" that we will share at conference time.

More Text to Self Connections....

The kids love the book "Skeleton Hiccups" so we did a text to self activity about
how they would get rid of hiccups.  We made a list of ideas from the book and ideas of their own. Their skeletons are so cute!

Look in a mirror and scare yourself.

Drink water