Star of the Week, Thanksgiving, Graphs, Cooking Dirt

Star of the Week
Our Star of the Week is a friend that is always kind and helpful to her friends.  She likes the  color pink and wants to be a ballet teacher when she grows up.

Cooking Dirt

This week we worked on the letter Dd, it's sound, and words that begin with Dd.  For our cooking lesson, we followed a recipe to make "Dirt."  It had pebbles (Oreo cookies) and a worm (a gummy worm) in it.  It was so yummy to eat dirt!!  To top of the lesson, we had a special teacher!!  She is a Dallas Baptist University student that is practicing how to teach.  Thanks, Miss Salazar, for the yummy fun!!

Thanksgiving

This week we have continued our learning of Pilgrims, Indians, and the first Thanksgiving.  WE have talked about traditions, what traditions are, and why we have traditions.  Here are a few samples of things we have learned.  Don't forget our Thanksgiving Program is Friday, November 21, at 2:30!!!

Graphing

This week in Math we are learning about collecting data, organizing it into a graph, and using the "data" (YuP!!  We know that word!!) to analyze it (YUP

!!  We know that word, too!).

We started with a "real-life" graph using real objects.  

We made a picture graph.  Did you know you can turn the graph side-ways and it still makes a graph that you can analyze?!?!

We made a real life graph of our hair color.

Our hair graph is so long it passes the table!!!

      

The picture graph of our hair color!

The real life graph of the kinds of shoes we were wearing.

We made a real life graph of the boys and girls in our class.  The boys are girls are EQUAL!!!!

The picture graph of the boys and girls in our class!!

  

Baby Bunnies, Texas, Graphs

Bunnies
What a week!!  This week we discovered four baby bunnies on our playground.  They were so young that their eyes were not open yet.  Mommy rabbit had run away (we decided we must have scared her when were came out to play).  The bunny man came to save the bunnies and I am happy to announce that they are warm and safe.

Texas This week we have been studying Texas symbols.  We located Texas on the map learned about the mockingbird, the flag, the pecan tree and bluebonnets.

 We took a picture in front of a pecan tree by the school.

 We found real pecans!!

A handful of pecans and shells.

Graphs
This week in Math, we reviewed graphs.  We learned about how to create a graph and how to analyze it.  Yup…we used the word "analyze!"

 "What sport do you like to play most?"

 "How do you get home?"

 "What is you favorite part of the school day?"

"If you had an ouchie, would you rather have a band-aid or a kiss?"

DATES TO REMEMBER:

May 21-Last day to order a field day shirt-$7

May 26-Memorial Day --No School

May 30-Field Day

June 3-Kindergarten Picnic Day--12:00-2:00

June 3-Kindergarten Completion Awards--2:30

June 5-Last Day of School

Star of the Week, Eating Dirt, Graphing

This week our star of the week is a quiet boy, but when he smiles....you can't help but smile, too!  

On Thursday, Mrs. Nieves made us eat dirt and worms to study the letter Dd!  Well, it wasn't really dirt! It was chocolate pudding, Oreos, and gummy worms.  We used our kindergarten cookbooks and followed the recipe to make dirt.  Eating dirt and worms was soooo good! 

Graphing

Math this week was all about graphing as an organized way to find and analyze data or information. We made lots of graphs, including real-life human graphs, object graphs, and picture graphs.