Hoots & Certificate

 It was a short week but we still had many students earn Hoot cards and a certificate earner.

We hope all our students and families have a wonderful Spring Break!

Spelling Number Words

  

A few weeks ago we started reinforcing the number words at school. The number word flashcards were sent home and we want to give  students time to practice at school. We started learning about the number words by singing the numeral words song by Dr. Jean. The students hold up numeral words, ten frames, tally stick cards, numerals or the correct number of fingers as we sing the song. The students are illustrating their and Number Rumba books at school. We sent home the Number Rumba book last week.

Hoot of the Week, JiJi, Hoots & Congratulations

 This week Room 101 had the Kindergarten Hoot of the Week. Congratulations to Wedjinaica! We also had another student make it to the 100% club in ST Math. Congratulations to Mark! We also had a Lexia Superstar certificate earner, a couple at home readers and lots of Hoot card earners. 

Egg-Citing Sight Word Hunt

 To culminate our Chick Hatching Unit we had some fun doing our egg-citing egg sight word hunt. It was a little chilly and a bit damp Wednesday afternoon, but, students, prepared with clipboards and pencils took to the field to crack open eggs and read and record words! We had so much fun!

Color Mixing

We started learning about the primary colors at school. We did a science experiment and watched to see what would happen when we used six containers and put water and food coloring in three of the containers (water + red dye in the first, empty second container, water + yellow dye in the third container then an empty container, next we added water + blue dye then an empty container). A big long paper towel snake was made then dipped into all the containers. We watched the dye get absorbed by the paper towel and it created a rainbow when the primary colors mixed together. 

We created our own color mixing papers. We have been reading lots of color books and we watched another color mixing experiment on YouTube. We colored our own craft eggs on Wednesday. This activity will be a nice way to culminate our Chick hatching/lifecycle unit and our color mixing exploration. We also read Rechenkah's Eggs and watched the author and illustrator, Patricia Polacco create her Ukrainian eggs. She used hot wax when she used the different dyes.  Be sure to s\check out all these items that came home in the Happy Spring white chick bags on Friday.