Miss Lawruk's Kindergarten

Saturday, May 25, 2013

End of the year

Can you believe it is the end of the school year already?!

I wanted to let you know that I have not updated the blog with pictures because I have a special surprise for you at Kindergarten graduation!

Friday: Dismissal at 11:45 to 12:00. Tatum (in preschool) is being baptized. Therefore, mass is going to run a little longer than usual. You are welcome to come!

This is the LAST day your child needs to bring his/her backpack. All remaining art projects and personal items will be sent home.

**I forgot to collect guided reading books on Friday. Please return them on Tuesday! **

Monday: No School

Tuesday: School Picnic- We will be served hot dogs and hamburgers. I believe other treats are also going to be available. If your child does not want a hot dog or hamburger, please pack their lunch in a disposable brown paper bag. Wear your tie dye shirts!

Wednesday: Graduation!! Graduation begins promptly at 10:30 in the gym. After graduation, light refreshments (cookies) will be served. This is your child's last school day!! Please have your child wear "church" clothes. Girls may wear dresses, skirts, or pants. They may wear sandals. Boys can wear dress pants/shorts and a nice shirt.

We have been practicing graduation and cannot wait for you to join us!

Saturday, April 6, 2013

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

Centers

ipad

Leap Frog game

Stamping sight words

Writing items we want from ads

What's Cookin'

Math: Half and Equal

Science: Dogs

Religion: Jonah and the Whale

Letters: Reviewing A-H

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

100th Day, Valentines Day, Student Appreciation Day

100th Day

Using 100 pegs to make a design on the Light Brite

Building with 100 blocks

We are 100 days smarter!!

Here are their capes with 100 items on them!

They filled a 10 frame up with "gumballs" and added all 100 to the gumball machine

We made portraits of what we would look like when we were 100 years old

Working on adding 10 dots to 10 different colors of paper strips to make 100 dots for our 100th day hats

We also made necklaces out of 100 fruit loops and covered a "pizza" with 100 toppings. However, my camera is not cooperating and will not load some of the pictures. All these activities helped the students count to 100 by ones and tens!

Valentines Day!

We were busy using candy hearts to practice math skills!

Sorting by color

Making simple and complex patterns

Tallying how many of each color they had

Learning about even and odd numbers.

They figured out if they had a even or odd amount of candy hearts.

Practicing counting by tens

Graphing to determine which color they had the most of

We played two different versions of this game. First we rolled the dice and covered the number they rolled. First person to cover up all the numbers won. Then they started learning how to add numbers together. They rolled two dice and counted how many dots were showing. Then they covered that number up. First one to cover up all the numbers won!