Monday March 15, 2010

In the computer lab we finished our 1st movies. In class we watched them. They were awesome!

At the end of the day we were deciding how to spend our money from the trail mix sale. We are going to adopt a penguin family but we have $25 extra. We are trying to decide what other animal we could help. Our choices are the beluga whale, sea turtle, or the sea otter. What is your vote?

Wednesday February 24 2010

Last week we didn't have school because it was Presidents Week. We have been very busy this week and didn't get to blog on Monday and Tuesday.

Today was Jimena's birthday. She turned 6 and her mom brought in chocolate cupcakes with green frosting. They were yummy!

We had a big mystery today. We were supposed to see a magic show but the magician was missing! We think he was practicing his dissappearing trick. I wonder when he will reappear.

Tuesday February 9, 2010

We sold out of Trail Mix!!!!!!! (We still have a few bags that we can make.) After sorting and counting it, we made $63.40! We are very excited!!

Today we learned what a silhoutte is and how it looks. We learned that presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln have famouse sillhouttes. Mrs. Power traced our sillhouttes on the Promethean Board. Tomorrow we are going to write about ourself and add it to our sillhouttes.

Monday February 8, 2010

"Trail Mix! 25 cents! Help save the penguins!" Today we sold trail mix at recess. We made $24! After selling we sorted and counted the money. We learned that a panny is worth 1 cent and nickle is worth 5, a dime is worth 10 cents and a quater is worth 25. We also learned that 1 dollar is the same a s 4 quarters. We can't wait to sell tomorrow at recess!

Tuesday January 26, 2010

Today we practiced our Penguin Play. We learned why penguins are endangered. There are some popultaions of penguins that 80% have already died out. We decided we would try to save them. We learned that even Kindergarteners can make a difference and change the world. To do this we are going to sell trail mix at recess. Here is our lisrt of what will go in our trail mix:\

• chocolate chips
• M&Ms
• pretzels
• cereal
• goldfish
• marshmellows
• popcorn
• cheez-its
• Ziploc bags

Wednesday January 20, 2010

This week Jimena is our student of the week. She decorated her poster and we learned that she likes to write. Anthony shared a story about Charlie Brown.

Today we decided who was going to be in what songs for our penguin play. We also started doing our MAPS testing at the computer lab this week. Some of the questions are easy and some are hard. It is helping us know what we are ready to learn.

Wednesday January 13, 2010

Today we learned about preditors and prey. We learned that preditors eat other animals. Those animals are called its prey. It was funny when we acted out being a preditor and a prey. Cameron was a fish, Mrs. Power was the penguin, and Anthony was a killer whale. At first Mrs. Power turned to Cameron the fish. Mrs. Power was the preditor and Cameron was her prey. After she ate Cameron the fish she turned to swim away. All of a sudden she swam into Anthony the killer whale. Now Mrs. Power was the prey and Anthony was the preditor. Anthony gobbled Mrs. power the penguin and then swam away.

Tuesday January 12, 2010

We did caterpillar writing again today. More people got Skittles today because they had beautiful handwriting. Maybe more kids will get some tomorrow!

We made predictions on our story Penguins to the Rescue. Some kids were right about the shadowy figure and some were wrong. It is okay to be wrong when you make a prediction. The figure was really the mama seal. We also learned that seals eat penguins so the story is fantasy because the peguins helped the seal. This really wouldn't happen because the seal would eat the penguin!

Monday January 11, 2010

Today we read Penguins to the Rescue. We learned vocabulary words like rescue, drifting, floe, sobbing, skimming, and swirl. Mrs. Power typed a list of adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe something. We described a mitten. It was blue, fluffy, fuzzy, warm, small, comfortable, and big.

We started caterpillar writing. We came up with when and where phrases. We wrote a wonderful sentence. Mrs. power was looking for nice handwriting. If we did it correctly she said we had Skittle writing and we got a skittle. If we didn't get one we will try again tomorrow!

Anthony is our first student of the week. He brought back his poster and Mrs. Power gave him a special blue star to take home.

Wednesday January 6, 2010

Today we read Three Cheers for Tacky. It was a funny story. Tacky was different and the other penguins didn't like him at first. At the end Tacky helped them to win the cheering contest. They learned that being different is okay.

Tuesday January 5, 2010

Today we were writing about what we have learned so far in kindergarten. Some kids learned how to read, write, say their letter sounds, tie shoes, and subtract!

When we line up outside we stand next to letter blends. We need to think of a word that begins with that sound. This is helping us to read and write and stand quietly on line.

Monday January 4, 2010

Yesterday we had pancakes! Mrs. Power made pancakes for us. It was a special breakfast! It was so yummy. We also made New Year Hats. We rolled the dice and solved the subtraction problem to figure out how many decorations we could put on our hats. It was a lot of fun.

We learned that Mrs. Power is having a boy! Happy New Year!

Wednesday October 14, 2009

Today we learned more about bats. We learned that bats are mammals. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Bats are nocturnal. They sleep upside down. Some bats hibernate in the winter and some migrate south. The grey bat is endangered. People sometimes go into caves and wake up hibernating bats. This hurts the bats because there is no food for them to eat. We also found out that some bats eat insects, fruit, blood, or fish. We can't wait to learn more!!

Friday October 2, 2009

Today we used our laptops!!!!!!!

Tuesday September 29, 2009

Today we learned about our eyes and our sense of sight. Mrs. Power did a handstand to show us that we see the image upsidedown in the back of our eye. Our brain fixes it.



We also worked on finding images for our service learning project. We are collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. Start saving your pop tabs!

September 21, 2009

Today we read the story "No David!" written by David Shannon. He wrote this book when he was 5 years old. We watched an interview of David Shannon. He was talking about his books. Later, we picked pages that we are going to work on for our movie. It is going to be a funny movie!

September 16, 2009

Today we had music and library. Our library books should be returned by Tuesdays. We also finished our Dirt Harry dogs. Then we retold the story with our dogs. Mrs. Power took our pictures!

September 15, 2009

Today we painted with red, blue, and yellow. We pretended our fingers were mice and danced in the colors. We saw red and yellow made orange, red and blue made purple, and yellow and blue made green!

September 14, 2009

Today Mr. Johnson came in and we finished filming our Kinder Rules movie! We colored and created our "Dirty Harry" dogs. We went to the computer lab to learn how to do MAPS. It was fun! We practiced writing the letter Aa. What a fun day!

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