Special Mentions!

A pat on the back to Myah for ordering all the alphabet letters after she finished her sentence this morning! Also, today's Special Helper was Sia. Thank you for all your help, Sia - today and always! Finally, we had a visitor this afternoon...I bet you recognize this pilot!

Making Blue Slime!

Making 2 and 3D Shapes

Estimating Beans

     Our estimation jar changed from holding pom poms (43 as counted by Shanaya) to holding beans. We all agreed that we predict there to be more beans than pom poms, as the beans are smaller and therefore more can fit. This is an example of our numeracy skills - even if children are still beginning to count they can evaluate quantity. Even though the number was very high, everyone knew it would be higher than the pom poms. Great predicting and estimating, JK & SKs!
       Jordan counted all the beans for us and found there to be 190! Erica had the closest guess, with 200. Nice work!

Learning about 3D Shapes

Tuesday May 12, 2015:

    Yesterday, we reviewed our knowledge about 2D shapes and began learning about 3D shapes: cube, cone, pyramid, and a sphere. We went on an indoor scavenger hunt to identify all the 3D shapes around us! We also built ramps to determine which 3D shapes roll while investigating which others stack.

Save the Date!

    Save the Date: On Thursday May 28, from 10 am - noon both kindergarten classes will be going on a class bowling trip. We would like combine with a Father's Day Celebration, so Fathers are especially welcome to attend with their children, if possible.

   I do not yet have the price finalized, but I will let you know as soon as I do. One of the parent volunteers has a connection with this bowling alley, so they have given us a great discount.

Thank you Moms & Families!

  Thank you to all the Mothers & families who were able to make today's celebration a success! Thank you for all your contributions as well; we could not have done this without all of you.

   I am sorry about the volume of the video. ...we used our class iPad to film it and I am still new to Macs & iMovie. I will try to get it on this blog, but it involves putting it on YouTube (with privacy setting, so only those people with the URLs can view it). I can't post to the blog directly (unless someone knows how to do that!) but I will get it up in the next few days.
    Anyway, even though many kids could not be very well heard, the bottom line is that the kids are all thankful for all that you do! (even on those days that you may not see the appreciation!)

    Also, I apologize I was not able to capture the day on camera. The iPad storage was full and I didn't want to waste too much time deleting photos, so I apologize I have none to post. Definitely great memories, though!