This week was filled with lots of good literature from Eric Carle.  His books are very appealing to children due to their beautiful illustrations and content.  We also studied the sense of hearing which led us to roar like dinosaurs and perform in a marching band.  It was a short but fun week.

 

Stomp and roar whose name on that dinosaur? 



Giving their loudest ROAR........



Learning how a relay race works.



We made caterpillars to go along with one of Eric Carle's books.

Making an elephant bookmark and pretty happy about it.



 

He was testing out his bookmark to see if it really kept his place.



The Lego table was popular this week.



Mrs. Angela reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar with a sock puppet



Sequencing our numbered cans from zero to one.



Our marching band!!!!!



Definitely using our sense of hearing outside



Stacking cans only to knock them down and rebuild.



How magical is this.  The white blank page was no longer white. 

A chameleon and our name appeared on the page we painted.

 

 Each of us got to select our favorite Eric Carle book we read this week.

 The finished graph.  Looks like Rooster's Off to See the World got the most votes.

 Happy Birthday Miss E (the girls are vowels) We place pictures of words that begin with the e sound into the gift box.

This week we discussed our family who is so very special to us.  Our friends, and our school are also important.  The highlights of this week were buddy drawing, making friendship necklaces, and our science unit on the sense of smell. 

 The moms and dads have been doing a wonderful job packing healthy lunches for us.  As you can tell we REALLY enjoy them.

 It is also our special time to chat with our neighbors:)

 Our science unit this week involved the sense of smell.  We smelled a lemon.

 Some of the mystery jars contained bar-be cue sauce, coffee and bananas.

 The tricky ones were chocolate, cherries, and mustard.

One thing about Musical Shares instead of Musical Chairs was you had to tell who you were sharing the chair with.   

 Just waiting for the music to stop so we can hop into a chair.

 In the library area we have whisper tubes, you can read or whisper into them and your voice is magnified. 

 One of the favorite toys this week was the marble works. 

 Do we have a budding carpenter or architect????????

Sometimes little brothers just need an extra hug from another room.  Thank you big brother. 

 No peeking!!! Draw a shape to find out who will be your buddy.

 1,2,3, go find your buddy by matching your shape.

Belly, buddy drawing.   

 Clean up included putting the markers away- a perfect sorting activity.

 Working our fine motor skills making a friendship necklace with everybody's name in our class.

 We had a birthday party for Mr. L.  Each of us marked the capital and lower case L's with party hats while we wore party hats.

Our first week at Kindergarten Bridge was totally awesome.  We are learning how special we are and how much fun school can be.  We are also learning the rules and to share with our friends. 

Her face tells it all- the fantastic first week at LAP 

 The stamp says I love myself.  That was the message of the week.

 These boys are playing in the sensory table filled with pom poms.

 We put a puzzle together of our names.  If you got it in the right order, it turned out to be a heart.

 Checking in the mirror to see what color eyes he has.  I think he likes what he sees.

 Making our fingerprints showed we were all unique.

 We start our bridge class off  everyday with active songs and

circle games like Head and Shoulders



 

 An old favorite they love- The Farmer in the Dell

 Some of our dancing moves

 A get acquainted game rolling the ball to one of our friends.

 We enjoyed the beautiful sunshine this week.

Down the Stretch

The last two weeks we have kept busy with Derby activities and studying insects especially the butterfly. We are excited about our graduation next week when we will become kindergarteners.

 

 Decorating our bible verse bracelets.

    The Hungry Caterpillar is much better when it's told by a talking puppet.

 Parking lot sight word game.  Mrs. Angela says a word and the child parks his car in the right spot.

 Serious business this racing.

 At the gate.

 Our balloon races. The balloon could only be pushed forward with our own air blown through the straws.

 We just can't get enough of that fresh air and sunshine.

We really enjoyed a great game of horseshoes.

 Someone made one.  Hooray!!!!!!!!

 Horses can go over the hurdle or...

Horses can go under the hurdle.