Better late than never!

Sorry for the delay!  I had quite a weekend last weekend, and didn't have a spare second to blog about our wonderful week.  On Sunday, I walked into what I thought was a birthday party, but it turned out to be my bridal shower!! I was super surprised and overwhelmed by all of the love I received from my closest family and friends.  I spent all of Sunday night unpacking and organizing all of the wonderful gifts Nick and I received.

On Friday, we had a special visitor sneak into our classroom.  The little bugger left green footprints and glitter all over our room!  We followed the footprints and they led us outside and into the bushes where we found a pot of gold.  We read all about Liam the Leprechaun in the book Jack and the Leprechaun, but my kinders still weren't convinced Liam really left us that pot of gold.

 

Since it was gorgeous outside Friday, we decided to go outside to enjoy a story and the beautiful weather.  When we came back in, this is what we found....

...a special treat from out leprechaun friend!!

We also celebrated Cayden's 6th birthday!  He brought in delicious cupcakes to share with his friends.  Happy birthday Cayd :)

All of this upcoming week, we will be having music rehearsal everyday for our Spring concert.  Kinders are doing an amazing job! I can't wait to see the finished product.  Keep practicing at home!!!

Dr. Seuss Week

For Dr. Seuss week, we had some special readers come in and share our favorite Dr. Seuss stories.  On Monday, our special guess reader could not make it in, so my friend Justin Bieber dropped in to read us The Cat in the Hat.

On Thursday, we had a special call during circle time.  When we answered, we were so excited to see that it was Miss Burkett's 5th grade class.  They shared the book The Sneetches and taught us all about treating everyone nicely even if they are different from us.  

Mrs. Kueny surprised us and came in to read Hop on Pop, a story with LOTS of rhyming words.

We also made Dr. Seuss' Oobleck to help us learn about our senses.  Mrs. Engle and Mrs. Luciano came in to help with our messy but super fun Oobleck.  The kinders were amazed because Oobleck always felt different.

When we rolled Oobleck into a ball, it felt hard like a solid.

...but, when we opened our hand, it would melt away like a liquid.

When we punch Oobleck it was SUPER hard, but when we put our hand in it, it sunk to the bottom.

After we were finished experimenting with our Oobleck, we charted what it looked like, felt like, and smelled like. 

We measure up!

This week in Math, we worked in learning teams to explore measurement.  We learned that we measure things to find out their length.  First, we brainstormed everything we knew about measuring already.  Then, we practiced measuring on the Smartboard using cubes.  We compared lengths using words like shorter than, longer than, and equal lengths.

Next, we broke into learning teams and worked together to find lengths of different objects around our classroom.  

After all of our measuring was finished, we met back at the rug and talked about our measurements and team work.  My kindergarten friends did a fabulous job!!

Mr. Ryer was brave enough to come back and help us with centers this week!  I think it was because he missed all of our knock knock jokes during snack time (last time he was here, kinders ambushed him with knock knock jokes!!)  

Thanks for the yummy pretzels!