Miss Lawruk's Kindergarten: March

Sorry about how long it has been since I last posted! My cord for my camera disappeared so I could not download any pictures! But I have found it!

Easter

We dyed Easter eggs and then we
wrote a how to writing on how to dye Easter eggs

Easter Egg hunt!

Eating your words

We have been working on word families. So far we have learned: at, ug, in, it, ot, op word families. For example: Pin, tin, bin, chin (for the 'in' word family).

We use magnetic letters to make word family words. The next day we review the word family and the students have to come up with the words on their own. They write them on their sheet. After they have filled up their paper with words, they use markers to trace over the words.

Violet writing words from the 'ug' word family

Hunter tracing over his words

After st. trace the words, they use the snack that correlates with the word family to cover up the letters in the word family. Brooklyn covering up the 'ug' words with Lucky Charms.

The final step, st. take turns reading one word at a time to their partner. After they say the word, they get to eat the snack covering the word family.

We used Dots for the 'ot' word family and Skittles for the 'it' word family.

American Symbols

We did a directed drawling of the Statue of Liberty after learning about it.

We also learned about the American Flag. We water colored the stripes and we used white paint for the stars.

We learned about the Liberty Bell and the Bald Eagle as well.

We are now learning about dogs! We have studied about the boxer, border collie, golden retriever, Saint bernard, pug, and the German Shepard.

First we watched Dogs 101 on Animal Planet on the smart board

We read about each dog and then we write 2 facts we learned about each dog in our dog books.

The we draw a picture for each fact we wrote.

Religion

John 3:16

Crosses for Easter

Palm branches for Palm Sunday

Writing

We made a prediction if March would come in like a lion or lamb

and wrote why we thought that.

We wrote what we would do if we found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

We have been working on nonsense words

Dr. Seuss

Put together Dr. Seuss puzzels

We made a "green eggs and ham" snack

We read many Dr. Seuss books and wrote about our favorite book.

We also made ourselves into Thing One or Thing Two.

We also made Cat in the Hat hats (and wrote 'at' words on them)

Students goal this marking period was 7 AR points (or about 14 books). For every 5 points they exceeded their goal, they got another prize from the treasure chest! The student who read the most books got an extra prize.

Violet choosing her prizes