We Love Parties!

Thanks to our wonderful parents, the kindergartners enjoyed a fabulous party on the last day before winter break.  They played games, made ornaments, and enjoyed yummy treats provided by all of our terrific Concord kindergarten parents.

Holiday Celebrations

As we approached the holiday season, the kindergartners enjoyed learning about celebrations around the world.  We read stories, learned poems, wrote letters to Santa, and located different countries on our world map.  Sophie's grandma, who visited during our Winter Party, enjoyed listening to her read our Christmas poem.

We Love Writing!

My kindergartners are becoming excellent writers as they practice their skills writing books and stories in the Writing Center during free choice centertime and in their daily work.  Here is Estelle reading a book she wrote to the class.

Sticker Fun

Sticker Fun

The kindergartners celebrated the last round of letter of the day today with stickers.  They decorated their ABC Books with 26 stickers, one for each letter of the alphabet.  They counted by fives as they put them in rows of five and one (uno as they call it) at the bottom.   They sang ABC songs and watched a fun DVD of their sight words.  We'll take a break and begin letter of the day again in January.

Letter of the Day

Today we finished our second round of the letters of the alphabet.  We focused on letter recognition, phonetic sounds, letter formation, high-frequency words, writing sentences, spacing between words, and spelling.  The kindergartners are looking forward to decorating their binders with stickers!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Although the winter season is not officially here, the kindergartners were just thinking ahead (or wishing) and made snowmen on Friday.  In addition to being an art project, we incorporated math as well.  Their circle snowmen's accessories were made of triangles, rectangles, and squares.  They definitely showed a fashion sense as they coordinated colors and designs into the project.  They are currently on display in the kindergarten hallway.

Winter Musical

We are very excited about our Winter Musical on Sunday.  The program begins at 2:00 but all kindergartners should be there by 1:45.  Please have your bear dressed in white, wearing the white bear ears they took home last Tuesday. 

Venn Diagram

My kindergartners are getting to be experts at doing Venn Diagrams.  After a discussion of The First Thanksgiving and celebrations of their Thanksgivings, they compared and contrasted the two using a Venn Diagram.  We used two hoola hoops as a visual tool and they chose three ideas to write on their individual Venn Diagrams.

Tribe of Hasik

Thanksgiving Feast

All the kindergartners at Concord School reenacted the First Thanksgiving dressed as Pilgrims and Native Americans.  After a reading of the Legend of the Five Kernels of Corn and a recitation of a poem,  they feasted on many of the same healthy foods as the Pilgrims and Indians. 

Thank you, parents, for your donations of food and your help at the feast.

As you can see in the pictures, we were dressed as Indians.  The students made their feathery headbands,  beaded necklaces, and colored Indian pictures for their fringed costumes. 

We Love Our Families!

The kindergartners are talented artists and good writers as is evident in the family portraits and stories they have recently created as an ending to our unit, Family Time.   Check out these works of art in our kindergarten hallway.

Pilgrims and Indians

The kindergartners have been very busy learning about the Pilgrim's voyage to the New World and Native American Indians.They can say good morning in Navaho, sing an Indian song, and recite a poem about the Pilgrims and Indians.  They picked out their Indian names and made a picture of an Indian using their handprints.  They wrote a sentence using Indian symbols on pretend bearskins.  Check out their great work on display in our kindergarten hallway.

Comparing Apples and Pumpkins

After the students listened to a story about apples and pumpkins, we shared ideas about how they are alike and different.  We used two hoola-hoops as a Venn Diagram to show this.  It was a great visual lesson and engaged all the kindergartners as they eagerly participated. 

Letter of the Day

My eager beavers recovered from Halloween very quickly and are ready to learn.  They worked hard today on the letter J, brainstorming words that begin with that letter, writing the letter on their chalkboards, and cutting and gluing in pictures that start with that letter.  They wrote two sentences using j words and are good at using proper spacing, capitalization, and punctuation.  As we write sentences, they are able to spell sight words for me and sound out words that are more difficult.