Tower Power!

This year we will be learning all about engineers.  As engineers we will be solving problems from all over the world with our friends, India and Jacob.  India and Jacob are the children in our science curriculum, Engineering Adventures.  They taught us that engineers are problem solvers, "they're people who design things that make our lives better, easier, and more fun."  Our first engineering challenge was to create a tower.  The tower had to be 10 inches tall to protect our frog from the alligators below.

Signs of Fall

Every morning during calendar time we check Wonderopolis for the Wonder of the Day.  With it being the first day of fall we found a past wonder, Why do leaves change color in autumn?  We watched a time lapse video and discussed what we observed.  Later in the afternoon we went on an expedition searching for signs of fall.  We discovered many of our trees at school were already changing colors.  The leaves we observed were red, yellow, orange, green, brown, and even purple.  One of the trees looked like it had already lost all of its leaves however, there were no leaves on the ground.  Some friends suggested maybe that tree is just "bald." :)  Once we finished our observations and collected many signs of fall we brought our findings back to the classroom and created projects.  One of the fall changes we discussed was the change in weather.  For now we are enjoying the nice warm weather, hoping it stays around for a few more weeks!  

Happy Fall!!!

               

First Days

The first days of school were a blur!  We had so much to learn and so many new people to meet.  We went to stations around the school and learned about our bee expectations at each one.  We know to bee respectful, bee responsible, and bee safe everywhere in our school.  We also discovered a new friend named the quiet fox.  We made quiet fox headbands and know that if a friend is being noisy, instead of telling them to be quiet and being loud ourselves we can show them our quiet fox.  After our staggered start days we got to know all of our new friends, we have 23 friends this year!  Here are some pictures of us exploring the classroom and our iPads.

It's time to get our learn on!

"It's time to get our learn on!"  Kid President

Welcome to the 2014-15 school year!  We have a lot going on in kindergarten this year and I cannot wait to meet each and every one of you!  This year at Lincoln Elementary each child will have a device to use.  In our classroom each child will have an iPad to use every day.  With the new technology we will also be focusing on personalized learning in our classroom.  This means that each child will be involved in guiding their own learning.  We will be setting goals and working to achieve them throughout the year.   On our classroom blog you will find information about what is going on in our classroom throughout the school year.  We will be learning all about blogs and soon the children will be blogging with their third grade buddies. 

Thank you for checking out our blog, I am looking forward to working together with all of you this year!

"Together we can make the world awesome!"  Kid President

Kindergarten 2013 2014

It has been an amazing year!  I cannot believe how fast time flies!  I hope everyone has a fantastic summer preparing to be first graders next year!  Here is our end of the year video celebrating our many achievements and events throughout the kindergarten year.

Happy Mother's Day

We love our mom's and everything they do for us!  Happy Mother's Day!!!

Tech Time

We have not been posting on our blog recently because we discovered a new site, kidblog.org.  As much as I love Blogger our kiddos cannot use Google+ so they cannot post on the blog without logging in as me.  The neat thing we discovered on Kidblog is that we can each have our own login and post to the same site.  The kids have been writing their own posts during computer lab, writing centers, and during Tech Time.  While we have been gone from blogging we started Tech Time each Wednesday!  During this time each one of us has our own iPad and we are learning many different things.  We learned how to get onto our e-mail using the iPad, how to e-mail each other, how to get to our Google drive, and started blogging.