Is That in the State Standards?

Yes, it is!

Here are some pictures of our Dinosaur developmental stations. I added dinosaur figures to the block station. The children  are practicing conversation skills and deveoping language skills.

 

 Not only are the children working on language skills but they are also working on science and the scientific method. They are using critical thinking skills when building towers and "caves" for the dinosaurs.

 Math skills are also being practiced. How big do we need to make the "cave" for 4 dinosaurs? How many blocks do we need to make the "cave" square or rectangle.

 

And do we need to discuss the social skills that are being developed? Children need this time during the day to become well rounded students.

 

 

Another one of our stations is playdough and dinosaur cookie cutters. Fine motor skills are being developed here. We are doing more writing as the year goes on and our fingers need to be strong. Kneeding the playdough and pushing the cookie cutters help our fingers become strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And where would a Kindergarten classroom be without great parent volunteers! Levi's mom helps us every Thursday afternoon. Today she helped the children measure their dinosaurs that they painted yesterday. They used unifix cubes to measure how tall and long their dinosaur was.

 

 

 

Dinosaur Days Begin

We started out dinosaur unit learning about the Brontosaurus. We made a Brontosaurus and read about it and then wrote some interesting facts.

 

           Chandler is looking for a word on the word bank we made.

 I think the children have really come along with handwriting and forming sentences!

Check back later in the week to see pictures of some of the stations we will explore!

Bits and Pieces!

Gingerbread day is always a hit! The children had fun with parents and grandparents.

Then we had 100Day! Yes it was a 2 hour delay that day so we continued the day for a few more days. We made our crowns when we got to school.

 Some children dressed to look 100 years old! It didn't take much for me to look 100 :) but I don't think I have a picture of that sorry.

We wrote numbers to 100 by 10 and made a caterpillar headband...ok I LOVE headbands!  We make them for everything.

 Students counted out 100 of several snacks and we mixed them together and made a 100 day snack!

Parents came in to help us find numbers around the room. Numbers were written on different colors of paper and the children had to find each one and color the square on the 100 chart that color. This took several days to finish.

                                      

So that was 100 day!

Now for Valentines Day!
To start out the day we had phase 2 of our park district program. Remember in the fall we went to Stillwater Prarie and learned about trees? Well they came to us this time and we learned a lot more about trees and what gifts they give us. We also learned a song  and made a costume that we will use in May when we go to the Banana slug Concert.

 Then in the afternoon it was Valentine fun time! The children had to write names on their cards as homework and then they had to read the names to hand them out during our party. we had lots of yummy treats too!

Ok so I think I am all caught up and I PROMISE that I will post somethinng every week from here on out! We begin our Dinosaur unit on Monday so there will be lots of fun pictures to come.