Another great week!

Alaila's Birthday

Today we celebrated Alaila's summer birthday. We read a familiar and fun story, Who stole the cookie jar?. The KD Dragonflies loved helping to retell this story as it reminded us of our Cookie Jar greeting we use at Morning Meeting.

Another great week!

Happy Birthday, Jack!

Today we celebrated Jack's birthday! Jack read to the class one of his favorite Iron Man stories and shared a delicious treat. Happy Birthday, Jack!

Happy Birthday, Viv!

Today we celebrated Vivian's birthday. She shared a great story and her special pink flamingo. We also enjoyed beautiful and delicious cake pops. Happy Birthday, Viv!

This past week

What a great week! We made so many amazing memories together. Enjoy these special pictures.

Happy Birthday, Hunter!

Today we celebrated Hunter's Birthday. Hunter shared with us his baby footprints and newborn pictures. It was amazing to see how much he has grown. Thank you for the delicious treat and great sharing. Happy Birthday, Hunter!

We received in the mail our collage that we created with J.C. Phillips!

Manatees and Beach Day pics

Catch Up on these great pictures!

I realize that there are a lot of Construction Zone pictures, but they are so proud when they build their structures and always ask me to take pictures.

These pictures include Guest Readers, playing store, creating scallops, human clock and creating our octopus. Enjoy!

J.C. Phillipps Skype Visit

In kindergarten, we had an "author visit" via Skype today. We took part in the "Skype in the classroom" program (https://education.skype.com) to have J.C. Phillipps join us in the common kindergarten area to discuss her latest book, her methods of illustrating and even take us on a little tour of her house! Julie read one of her stories, and then answered questions while discussing/modeling how she uses collages to create her work. It was a great experience for the kids who were able to ask questions and watch J.C. as she created a bit of artwork right before their eyes! KD has been using J.C. as the focus of our author study, and we will now take a cue from her and use her techniques in a cross curricular activity tying to our thematic study of the ocean. We've also requested, and Mrs. Oeth has agreed, to have some of Julie's books ordered and in our LS library.

Recent pictures of our scallop making, new math stations, guest readers and free choice construction.

Happy Birthday, August!

Today we celebrated August's birthday in a very special way! August brought in his pet chicken, Buffy! We all enjoyed hearing about this very special family member. This was definitely a birthday celebration we will not forget! Thank you to August and his family for a very special share.

Some pics from the zoo...

KD Dragonflies visited the zoo with our Senior buddies. More pictures to come… I was hoping to get everyone, but students were roaming with their buddies and I wasn't able to get as many as I hoped.
Pictures taken by others will surface later this week.

This Week in KD

This week in KD we visited the 3rd grade Wax museum, explored non-ficion texts, completed new math stations, began our ocean unit talking about plankton and expressed our opinions in writers' workshop! Here are some pictures from this week's fun!

THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who helped make my birthday celebration a great one! A special thank you to our room mom and the fan club for the beautiful and delicious dragonfly cupcakes!Here are pictures of the beautiful cards I received from the KD Dragonflies.

Oobleck!

We are celebrating Dr.Seuss' birthday by reading some of his best books! Yesterday we read the story of Bartholomew and the Oobbleck. This was a great story about a king who wanted new things to fall from the sky. With the help of his Royal Magicians, Oobleck fell down all over the Kingdom of Didd! Today we made our own Oobleck with Mrs. McCullen. Mrs. McCullen also read to us as our Guest Reader, a favorite of hers, The Cat Came Back. Check out these great pictures of our Oobleck! A HUGE thank you to Mrs. McCullen for leading this activity and providing each child with their own Oobleck to take home. WARNING!!!! YOUR CHILD"S OOBLECK IS INSIDE A GLADWARE CONTAINER ON TH E BOTTOM OF HIS?HER BACKPACK!

Ask me about the Y's guys! One Y is a bandit and steals the long e sound. We can find the bandit at the end of two syllable words. The one wearing glasses is in disguise. He pretends to be the long i sound in one syllable words. And regular Y he starts a word and make the y-y-y- sound like in our Phonics Dance.

Chinese New Year, Birthdays and Snow!

We have officially begun our Winter and Snow unit! This week we rotated through the K classrooms to do a variety of activities related to snow. We learned about Winter around the world with Mrs. Hoch, did some snow poetry with Mrs. Terwin, made paper snowflakes with Mrs. Paulson and made symmetrical pipe cleaner snowflakes with Mrs. Robeano. We also read a great story called Snowman at Night. We then began our own class version with paint, q-tips, cotton balls and so many creative ideas! Some KD Dragonflies created a scene with snowmen at night having a tea party, others were snowboarding and skiing! I can't wait to see how this class book turns out!

Happy Birthday, Thomas!

Today we celebrated Thomas' birthday with baseball and strawberry shortcake. Thank you for sharing with us! It was a sweet way to end our week.

Today's Snow Rotations

A Minute to Win It

Today we had 'A Minute to Win It' break to practice a little fine motor with valentine candy!

Pass the Cup at Assembly

Today we shared in assembly one of our favorite Morning Meeting activities, Pass the Cup. We each keep a rhythm to pass the cup to our neighbor, working together to do it right and do it fast. We did great  sharing this activity this time with the V-I-K-E-S chant. 

Really proud of the KD Dragonflies today!

Valentines with our Seniors

More great pics from the 100th day of school!

Thank you to Leah's mother for these great pics of the KD Dragonflies!

100th Day 2015 Part 2 - Kizoa Video Maker

It's the 100th Day

Today was a great day! We found 100 hiding pigs, made glasses, crowns and fruit loop necklaces. We built Solo cup towers with 100 cups and marshmallows structures made with 100 toothpicks and 100 marshmallows! We wrote about what we think we would do when we were 100 years old. It was fun too see what we might look like at this age thanks to a free app called Oldster. Thank you to all who volunteered today! The extra help made the day a breeze!!!

Igloo Construction, Creation Station and Rulers….

This week we began working on our sugar cube igloos and explored standard units of measurement with the ruler.

Attention Parents!

If you are available to volunteer to help during our 100th Day celebration, this coming Monday February 9th, please email Mrs. Robeano or Mr. Weible with your time availability. We will doing many fun 100 themed activities and would appreciate the extra hands to make sure this day is a great success and a memorable one for all.

100 Days of Kindergarten!

Indoor Recess Fun!

This week in KD

Our Star of the Week: Addison

Addison is our Star of the Week! Did you know that Addison loves to draw! She can even draw Olaf from Frozen. Addison also happens to be a twin. Her brother, Billy, is a Viking too! Addison alsoloves to eat pasta alfredo. We will be learning more about her this week as our Star of the Week!!

This week's pics

Writers' Workshop

In Writers' Workshop, students were asked to reflect a bit and look back on their first journal entries. They were asked to notice any changes in their writing and decide what they were doing well, how they improved, and now what they can be doing better.We decided on new writing goals going forward into this the second half of our school year.

We also introduced the idea of a writers' voice…

Architect Bean Came in to Share!

Mr. Bean, father of one KD Dragonfly and CA alumni,came in to share with the kindergarten classes. Mr. Bean happens to be an architect that has worked on several local restaurants and commercial properties. Mr. Bean explained the process of building and design. Several students asked Mr. Bean questions about blueprints and the planning process. We were able to make great connections as we have been talking about how homes are constructed. Thank you, Mr. Bean for a great visit! We very much appreciate the time you took out of your day to share with us all.

Computer renderings vs. the real thing, AMAZING!!

The step by step plans to build

The Pizzuti Collection

Our Homes Unit has Begun!

KD students created a glyph to share who lives in their home.

This week we began our house number project. Students were asked to chose different materials to decorate their house number. We will later decorate these houses and display them outside our classroom. The KD Dragonflies loved using these materials that were somewhat unconventional to decorate, lentils, tapioca pearls, wheat, clay, sand, etc. 

Rock Candy, Ready!

Some of our KD Dragonflies were able to take home their rock candy this past Friday. It has been growing for weeks and we have been enjoying the sweet smells in our room. Students have been able to observe the changes that have been slowly occurring and also hypothesize why some rock candy grew faster than others. A few are still at school and may need a few more weeks to grow to a similar size as these ones pictured. Fingers crossed that they do, but we also talked about being flexible and understanding if in fact some don't quite make it. We also discussed that it was the process of making the candy that was fun and not necessarily the product at the end.

Our Star of the Week

Hunter is our Star of the Week!! Did you know that Hunter loves to go to the beach? Hunter also is a Lego expert. He can build anything!! Did you also know that Hunter has a sister in the Lower School? Hunter did an excellent job sharing his pictures and answering our questions.

Happy Birthday, Morgan!

 

 Today we celebrated Morgan's birthday. She shared her favorite superhero story and a delicious and healthy snack. Happy birthday, Morgan!

Inspire Hope and Build Community