Forest to Sea.........more on Friday!

Art is important in creativity , math and reading language skills.  We used colored packing peanuts to build and create from our ideas.

  Math activities during our unit included weighing 'bears' to see how the scale tips.  It is interesting to hear the dialog and how they are figuring out how a scale works.

 Harlow tries her hand at copying FOREST on the board.  Reading from a board and copying are Kindergarten skills.

Cole is looking at our new fish and sharks as we begin our new Sea unit.  Marcus is enjoying counting with gold fish.  Everyone counted their fish in their cup and we graphed how many everyone had.   A great lesson for "more" , "less" , "greater than" and "less than".   Sean won with 20!

We had a great time with our Forest unit, and

the "What Does the Fox Say" song and book
were a hit.  As we go through our animal units
we are learning how different animals can
be in different environments.  We are looking at
eating habits, prey and similarities and contrasts.

The children have been learning to count pennies, identify money and recently they have decided to "open a movie theatre" and sell tickets with their dollars.  (I love when they come up with their own ideas.  Don't worry - the movies are rated G.)     : )