Monthly Archives: September 2010

After school today, I worked on switching my post from WordPress (what you are reading now) to Posterous.  Unfortunately, we weren’t able to figure out why WordPress wasn’t working for us at school even though it appeared to work at … Continue reading →

Today we did an art project that used a variety of colored squares.  We changed many of those squares into other shapes such as triangles, rectangles, and circles.  We glued the shapes onto a large sheet of construction paper to … Continue reading →

Today was our first attempt to do stations.  In kindergarten, stations is something that we do once or twice a week.  It allows the students to be involved with several different activities (typically four) for about 10-15 minutes each.  Today … Continue reading →

We read the story, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and practiced our shapes.  After doing both, we put them together to make a project of the three bears.  We cut lots of squares into circles by trimming the corners and … Continue reading →

Today we differentiated between letters and numbers.  We then practiced our letter by writing them on our alphabet soup.  On Thursday, we’ll paint our bowl of alphabet soup!

After rereading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, we went all around the school searching for the letters for our coconut tree.  We visited the Media Center, Gymnasium, Computer Lab, Music Room, Cafeteria, and the office where we met Mr. Schuler.  Each … Continue reading →

Bus safety was our highlight of the day.  We practiced getting on and off the bus safely. We took a thumbs-up/thumbs-down quiz on how to stay safe on the bus.  We practiced our best coloring in our bus safety coloring … Continue reading →

Creating our classroom rules and bus safety were the main topics of kindergarten today.  Our classroom rules are: help people, share, be nice, and use your words.  We learned about the Danger Zone and colored it red on our picture.

Today, the kindergartners came up with a really good list of things dinosaurs should do when they go to school.  Some of those things included sharing, being nice, taking turns, being quiet, helping people, and making friends.  We will use … Continue reading →

Wow, did the day fly by!  All in the course of 3 hours, we read a story, wrote our name and drew a picture of ourselves, went to the Media Center, went to the Computer Lab, had snack, did the … Continue reading →