WE LOVE OUR HEARTS!

Healthy hearts and bodies and valentine hearts have been the emphasis the last two weeks. We learned so many things and made many discoveries about our bodies. We discussed how love should be everyday of the year and not just on Valentine's Day. We'd like to show our love for you by sharing these pictures with you. Love, The Kindergarten Bridge

Pin the heart on Cupid. Everyone got right on the heart. You don't suppose we had any peekers?????????

Land the beanbags on the hearts. Try to get the highest number.

The guys said these heart airplanes needed some clouds so they gave them a personal touch. They're so creative. I loved it.

Letter recognition with m&m's. Yes, we ate as many we used.

Puzzle hearts

Perhaps not as much fun as eating chocolates, but matching up the right shapes in the box was a snap for these guys.

Each person 's fist was measured because that's about the size of our heart. Then our homework was to measure one of our parent's fist and compare the yarn and bring it back to school. It's fun to be scientists and make discoveries.

Our hearts pump the blood. The boys enjoyed coloring the blood red.

LUB-DUB, LUB-DUB is what we heard when we each got to hear our heart beat.

Ms Angela showed us how to find our pulse.

I found it and marked it with a blue sticker!!!!!!

Cutting out food from the ads in the paper.

Picking the foods from a bag and choosing if they are healthy or not healthy.

We learned that exercises like jumping, hopscotch, and Twister made our hearts beat faster.

After all that exercise, it's good to settle down and listen to a book on tape.

SNOW, ICE, & SNOWMEN?????????

Although we didn't see any of the white fluffy snow or ice outside, we created our own snowmen, and did many experiments with ice inside. Getting to play outside in late January was as much a treat as seeing our shadows and learning about the groundhog. Our boys continue to enjoy and reap the advantages of the small group atmosphere.



Shadow play was a blast especially when we turned out the lights :)



A game of bowling anyone????

Since we didn't get any real snow, we used marshmallows to create our shapes and cubes.

The game called Knock Out gave added practice with recognition of lower case letters. The boys used a drill to knock out cubes of letters.

The tornado tube is always a favorite.

The boys were very ingenious on ways to melt their ice cubes. Some poured salt on it, some put it in the sun, and others went to melt it in warm water.

This picture shows frozen water (solids). We kept them out overnight to see if they would melt back into liquids. They did.

Dropping numbers into a bottle of water to go in the freezer showing a liquid state to a solid state.

Our Kindergarten Bridge Class is ringing in the new year with exciting themes and challenges. We began with a study of arctic animals, their homes, foods, and what their footprints look like in the snow. As we still have had some outside play time in the last two weeks, we are still anticipating that first real snowball. Until then, we play in our indoor igloo and fish with our magnetic fishing poles.

I sure hope my partner gets the numbers in order so I can ring the bell.
Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Dong Ding Dong Ding Dong Ding Dong



Working in pairs is an excellent way to check if skills are being learned. Here one friend makes an AB pattern with cubes, and the other one has to copy it onto paper with colored markers.

The father penguin has to carry the unhatched egg in a pouch between his legs so........ we thought we'd try to walk (or waddle) as he does. Not as easy as it looks.

We were fishing with our magnetic poles to feed Mr. Penguin.

Playing outside in January. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!

Board games were a hit this week, as we reviewed our color words and number sequence.

Making a furry polar bear.

Creating our own individual style vehicle.

Dress up fun.