Cooking, STAAR with our book buddies, Measurement, Animal characteristics, Earth Day

STAAR
In Kindergarten, we do not take the STAAR test, but our Book Buddies do!  To give them a little encouragement and good luck, we gave them little treats every day.  We KNOW they did great!!

Cooking Ravens
To celebrate the letter Rr, we made Raven cookies.  They were they yummiest birds we have ever eaten!!

Measurement
This week, we are studying non-standard measurement.  This means measuring objects using blocks, pictures, links, or anything else.

We started our learned by tracing our foot and comparing them to each other's.  

We learned that some are larger, some are shorter, and some are equal.

Next we used our Kindergarten feet to measure things around the room.

 We then used cubes and measured how tall we are.

With our partner, we then found things in the room that were longer than, smaller than, or equal to 10 cubes. We learned that it was very hard to find things that were equal to 10 cubes!!!

Animal characteristics
In Science, we are studying the characteristics of animals and how they are are the same or different from other animals.

We learned and wrote about Chameleons. 

We compared birds and mammals and wrote about them.

We charted the characteristics of birds, mammals, and reptiles. 

Earth Day

To celebrate Earth Day, we learned about how to take care of our Earth.  We wrote about what we could do and then we used that to practice it all day.  We even cared for our school by picking up trash outside!

Star of the Week, Cooking, Bubbles with Book Buddies, Community Helpers

Star of the Week
This week our Star is a friend that loves the color pink and her favorite sport is tennis.  She wants to be a doctor when she grows up!

Cooking

This week we learned about the letter Bb, how to write it, the sound, and word that begin with the sound.  We used a recipe from our Kindergarten cookbook to make "Banana Bites."  They were yummy!!  It was even more special because our Dallas Baptist University student, Mrs. Chick, taught the lesson!

Bubbles with Book Buddies

Book Buddies blow bubbles in the breeze.  That's a mouthful of Bb's!!  We used our counting skills to count the bubbles we blew with our book buddies.  

Community Helpers

We have been studying the jobs of various community helpers.  A community helper is anyone that has a job to help others.  Some examples are firefighters that protect our property, the barber that cuts our hair, the chef that cooks our food, or the bus driver that takes us to school.  

We discussed what to do to prevent fires at our house and what to do if our clothes or hair started on fire.  Below the kids are practicing "Stop, Drop, and Roll."

On Thursday, the kids dressed as a community helper.  

The future teachers of Florence Hill.

The future doctors saving lives.

We are safe with these boys protecting our streets and the country.

This chef and zoo keeper are so cute!!!

The firefighters came on Thursday morning to talk about their jobs and how to keep safe if we do have a fire it our house.  Then they let Mrs. Nieves' dress in the bunker gear and spray the water hose!!