Sea Life: Underwater Volcanoes...

In Kindergarten we are learning that there's a lot more in the sea other than animals. We learned there are volcanoes under water! It's hard to believe, but take a look at these videos that show a volcano erupting.

A New Species of Fish...Psychedelic Fish

Have you ever heard of the PSYCHEDELIC FISH? Don't worry, we hadn't heard of it before either. It's a new species of fish discovered in the last few years. Take a look at this video from National Geographic to learn more about this interesting fish with an unusual way of moving through the water:

Sea Life Unit...Fish

We have been very busy with our new unit on Sea Life. So far we have been learning all about FISH! We learned many interesting facts about fish. We used that information to help us design fish for our classroom mural. As we learn about different animals that live in the sea, we will also create the animal from papers to add to our mural. Check back soon for pictures. In the meantime you might enjoy playing this fish game we found online: How Many Fish?

Fun With Paint....

As part of our Easy Tech lessons, we are learning how to use graphics programs for drawing with the computer. Our computers at school have Microsoft Paint. We are using this program to create drawings to support our learning. You too can use a paint program to draw. If you have the Paint program on your computer, this video may help.


Or you can go to this Crayola site to draw and print pictures as well: Crayola Coloring.

We love using Easy Tech and are happy the Spring Trail PTO helped pay for it. THANKS!
Check our blog soon to see some of our fine computer drawings!

Lola From the Rescue....

A few days ago, the Kindergarteners got to meet my new puppy. I adopted her from the Almost Home Foundation (we've been helping them with supplies and money all year long). The mother was rescued from a high kill shelter and gave birth to several puppies in a foster home. The Almost Home Foundation brings pets who are fostered to our local Pets Mart stores in hopes of finding homes for them. One special puppy stole my heart right away! She is a Labrador Retriever-Mix, so I don't know how big she'll really get.

I had a hard time coming up with just the right name for her. Then Jacob (in the AM Class) thought of the perfect name, Lola!

Isn't she adorable?

Lola came to visit the kids at school. She was on her very best behavior and even showed off her very first trick.... "SIT" ;-)

Lola gets along well with my other dog, Coal. He'll turn 12 years old on March 17th. Lola a good companion for Coal. He loves to play tug-of-war with her.

Take a look at the afternoon class meeting her for the first time.

Groundhog Day Predictions 2010...

We discussed Groundhog's Day and what it might mean if the Groundhog sees his shadow and what it means if he doesn't. We're all pretty tired of this cold weather and would like nothing more than to see warm weather creeping around the corner. But we all realize it's not up to us!

We are anxious to see the results tomorrow! Take a peek at how our classes predicted tomorrow's outcome! As you can see, more of us think he will NOT see his shadow and we'll have an early spring. Let's hope those friends are right!!

Edible SnowPeople...

We had fun using marshmallows, candy pieces and toothpicks to make edible snowpeople! It was kind of sticky, but we didn't care! Take a look at our yummy handmade treats!

SnowPeople...

We finished our SnowPeople and we know for sure...There are NO People, like SnowPeople! ;-)

Our instructions were that every SnowPerson had to have a hat (or hair), eyes, nose, mouth, buttons (or other clothing), and arms. Everyone did a nice job of following directions!
Take a look at what great, creative work we did....

Making SnowPeople...

We were inspired by the video "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs. In the video, a young boy made a wonderful snowman.


We used tons of scraps of paper that we've saved all year to help us get very creative with our designs for making snowpeople. Take a look at how hard we worked to create some really nice snowpeople.

Check back soon to see our finished snowpeople!

Fun with Vocabulary Words...

As part of our Language Arts Curriculum, we are reviewing "positional words". We thought it might be fun to use a few of our classroom "Foster pets" to help us with our learning: