What do you want to be when you grow up?

This week we read different books about jobs people can have. In our journals the kids wrote about what they would like to be when they grow up. Here are a few I thought everyone might like to see...

 

 

 

Firefighter

 

Another firefighter!

 

Police officer

 

Veterinarian  (so cute!)

 

Painter

 

 

This is one of the books we read from our reading curriculum this week.

 

 

We also spent time wrapping up our apple unit this week. We made these super cute Johnny Appleseed people, read more apple books, and finished apple centers.

 

We practiced listening for beginning sounds in words. We played this spinner game together. Spin the spinner and color the apple with the letter you hear at the beginning of the word. They kids did great!

 

The following pictures are from centers this week. This first center, kids had to match the tree to the apple. The tree has the number word and the apple shows the numeral. Kids had to find the word on their paper, color the apple to match, and write the numeral. Kinda tricky;)

 

 

This next center, kids read the color word and found it on their paper. Then they had to color the apple to match and write the word.

 

How many apples? Count the apples on the apple tree and write the number.

 

Trace the sight word, stamp it, and then write it by yourself.

 

This next center will continue each week throughout the year. These are our ABC Journals. We started our letter of the week last week, with M. In our journals we practiced writing the letter M, drew a moose, and made a moose with a capital M. Next week we will be doing S!

 

So far, our sight words include the following:

 

I

the

and

like

 

This week we will add the word "see." Please practice these words at home with your kids. We will be doing assessment for report cards this week and kids need to be able to read these words fluently. By the end of kindergarten we will have over 80 sight words! WOW!

 

Hope you all had a great weekend! Darci

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Seasons of an Apple Tree

This week in room 6 we talked a lot about the seasons of an apple tree and how an apple tree grows. The kids each painted an apple tree with their table group and then added the correct leaves, apples, or blossoms to show the season of their apple tree. We finished painting this week and everyone will write a sentence about their apple tree next week!

 

We also made these cute apples and caterpillars for our bulletin board in the hallway. During centers this week, the kids listened to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. These are so cute!

 

 

During centers this week we had lots of apple themed activities, which included counting and writing numbers to 10, writing the beginning sounds in words, finding missing numbers on the apple trees (ex. 4, ___, 6), and reading color words and coloring apple trees the correct color. I have a picture of our glue dots this week and will show you how sparkly and fun this activity was, but don't have pics of the centers. Will make sure to include these next week.

 

 

Remember all those apples your kids brought to school? Well, this week we made apple sauce!!! It was so much fun! We cut the apples, put them in the crockpot, cooked them all day, and then we got to eat our very own kindergarten cooked apple sauce!

 

 

Yummy!!!

 

Thanks for taking a look at what was happening in our kindergarten room this week. Next week we will be practicing the letter M, we have a new sight word - and, will be doing a couple more apple projects, and finishing our apple centers. Have a great weekend!

~Mrs. Craig

 

 

 

Apples, Apples, Everywhere!

This week we started our apple unit off with a bang! Everyone brought an apple on Monday and we started measuring, weighing, sorting, and writing about our apples.

 

Does your apple float or sink?

 

 

 

The kids balanced their apples with wooden cubes, then counted to see how many cubes it took!

 

 

How many unifix cubes tall is your apple?

 



 

Look at all those cubes! We had some heavy apples!

 

Next, we talked about the parts of an apple and then we labeled our own.

 

 

What is your favorite type of apple? We made our favorite apples (either red, green or yellow) and glued on the words "I like red/green/yellow apples." (I and like are our sight words so far)

 

 

 

 

Then we graphed how many people liked each.

 

 

 

Look at all the describing words the kiddos came up with to tell me about apples! After holding, feeling, and touching our apples we made quite the list of words to describe apples. After we did this together, kids wrote their own lists of words...nice job room 6!

 

 
 

 

Last, but not least this week we made these cute little poems with illustrations. "Eat and apple, save the core, plant the seeds, and grow some more!"

 

Here's a closer look...

 

 

 



 

 

We had so much fun this week. More apple fun to come next week!