Day, Night, and Space

We have been very busy learning about day, night, and outer space.
Here are some of the highlights from the past few weeks.

We illustrated the day and night pattern.

We learned about the night sky.

We asked questions about the moon. Here is our Moon Padlet wall. 

Both classes added to the same wall to keep track of our learning.

Created with Padlet

We described the moon and the students helped write the sentences.

We painted the moon with special "moon paint" and added craters.

Each student wrote their own facts about the moon. Here are just a few. 

Check out the spaces between those words! Whoop!

Stop by our hallway to read the rest of our moon facts.

Flashlight moon phases and eating moon cookies were class favorites.

We learned about the sun and stars too.

We wrote our own sun facts.

We found constellations and the moon with the Sky View app. 

(It's a free app! Check it out!)

Here are the silly Storybot songs we learned about the Sun, Moon, and Earth

Finally, we compared day and night.
Each class chose a familiar tune and wrote a song about the day and night sky.

CVC Words and Padlet!

For the past few weeks we have been learning about CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. We know how to read them by saying each sound and blending them together. We also know how to write them by listening for a beginning, middle, and ending sound. These words teach our Kinder readers so much about words and how they work.

This week students participated in a CVC Word Mission. The challenge was to write or type as many CVC words as they could. They looked for words in books, in our stations, and made up their own by rhyming! We used a web site called Padlet with our iPads to enter words on our CVC wall. Using Padlet allowed us to keep our learning all in one place and see the words that were being entered by students from both classes in real time! The students who reached 25, 50, and 75 words earned a spelling badge. We had so much fun!


Check out our awesome word work!!! 

Created with Padlet

3 Dimensional Shapes

Can you name these 3D shapes?

Kindergarten can!

In math, students have been learning all about 3 dimensional shapes. Our Kinder mathematicians explored, described, sorted and named these shapes. They enjoyed going on 3D shape hunts around the school and singing groovy songs about them.  Here is a class chart they made to record their learning.

 To wrap up their study, students were invited to eat the 3D shapes!!!