We Are Thankful

Right before Thanksgiving we started to make our very first kindergarten produced video!  The kids each used the iPads to take a video of themselves or of a partner.  Once we got all of the videos they went right into our dropbox and then they were magically on our computer!  We then learned what it means to edit and voted on the style and song for our video.  We still have some things to learn but are very proud of the first video we created together!  Here is our video:  We Are Thankful

New! Blogger of the Week

This week Alanis became our first blogger of the week.  While in the computer lab on Friday she typed up a post about our week.  She used her kindergarten sound spelling with a little help from our Gingerbread clues to write our first post from a kindergartner.  Each week one of the kiddos will get to be our featured blogger of the week.

Blogger of the Week!

My name is Alanis.  This week we lost our gingerbread men. they went  to the cputr lab, ofis, frc, and librarey.

iPads are Here!

We were very excited to start using our new classroom tools, our iPads!  This week we learned how to hold them safely, how to navigate the screens, how to store them, some new technology vocabulary, and how to turn them on and off.  On our first day we explored the Photo Booth app, here are some of our creations.

Halloween

We had a great day celebrating Halloween(Check out our costumes!) and Jose G's birthday today!!!  We practiced letter sounds with a Haunted House this morning and unwrapped a whole bunch of caramels to make caramel apples for our party.  We had a parade around the whole school to show off our awesome costumes!  Happy Halloween!!!

Pumpkin Fun!!!

We have spent a great deal of time on pumpkins over the last couple of weeks.  On our field trip last week we got a big pumpkin for the classroom.  Yesterday we read the story, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?  by Margaret McNamara.  We learned what it means to estimate and that you can estimate how many seeds are in a pumpkin based on the pumpkin's color and the number of lines on the outside.  We found out that it does not matter how small the pumpkin is because as Charlie states in the story, "Small things have a lot going on inside of them!"  We estimated anywhere from 10 seeds to 100,000 seeds.  We opened our pumpkin up and played with all the guts on the inside and separated our seeds.  Today we counted the seeds and discovered that our pumpkin had 686 seeds!!!  We created some pumpkin faces and then voted on our favorite one.  We made a pumpkin with star eyes, a diamond nose and a silly mouth.  We can't wait to eat our seeds at our Halloween party on Thursday!!!

Our Trip to the Farm!

Our Trip to the Farm!