Opinion practice

We have been doing such a great job with our opinion writing.  The kids have now experimented with opinion letters, posters, and books.  We talked about how the opinions we communicate need to be things we care a lot about or want to change.  Just like the Lorax our words are powerful and can change the world.  We are practicing hard so that we are ready to share with you on May 16th.

Lady bug update!

This just in...our ladybugs are entering their third phase. They have just started to transition into their pupa stage and the kids were SO excited.  They will stay in this stage for about a week and a half and then we will be onto part one of the final phase (yellow lady bugs).  Stay tuned!

Think Spring Read and Munch

Thank you so much to our many wonderful volunteers.  We certainly felt the spring theme as we enjoyed the gorgeous weather during our outdoor read and munch!  

Think Spring

Thank you to Laila's grandparents for donating the wonderful flower pots and flowers for our science unit.  Today we reviewed the necessary items a plant needs to survive.  We labelled our pots, filled them with soil, put seeds in several places, watered them, and then placed them in the sun to grow.  We are excited to watch these new living things go through their life cycles.

Tie Dye Divas!

A HUGE thank you to the moms of Ben, Flynne, Logan, Olivia, Sophie, Ava and Lily.  The children did a great job rubber banding and preparing for our tie dye divas to color our master pieces.  We are so grateful for your helpful hands!

Our new "class pets"

We are so excited to announce our new arrivals...the LADYBUGS are HERE!!!

The kids were thrilled to observe our new "pets" and record the life cycle of a ladybug.  We noticed our ladybugs already passed out of their egg stage and are now active larvae.  Stay tuned, we have another week or two until our next stage occurs.

Volunteer Breakfast

Just a quick reminder that the volunteer breakfast is coming up next Thursday.  Please be sure to mark your calendar and join us as we celebrate you and all you've done to help us succeed this year!

Birthday Bash!

Happy 6th Birthday to our Laila Lou!  We had so much fun celebrating with ice cream and cake AND icecream cake!  What a great way to spend time today!

Opinion/Persuasive Writing

Today we began our new unit on opinion writing.  We learned that an opinion is anything we believe, like/dislike, think, or prefer/choose.  The children practiced forming an opinion and stating their opinions.  We briefly talked about how opinions can be changed as we become persuaded or convinced by others.  We practiced using a continuum.  I gave the phrase, vanilla is the best ice cream flavor and the children chose, yes, no or unsure.  The "yes" kids tried to convince the others why vanilla was the best and then the "no" kids had their turn.  We repeated the exercise and talked about what persuaded the "unsure" kids where to move.

We will be getting more practice at forming opinions and persuading our families this week.  We will be looking for your feed back and responses as we draft letters to you about something we think we should have or do...to prepare yourself please watch the link below!  I think we have some very persuasive personalities in this group of super heroes!
Enjoy!

I wanna Iguana

End of Year Info.

Parents invites to school:
Tye dying- April 24th @ 2:00
Last Read and Munch- April 25th @ 3:15
Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast- May 1st, before school
* Please let me know if you plan to attend the volunteer breakfast. It is always helpful to know who I should keep an eye out for!
Mother's Day Celebration- May 9th @3:15
Zoo Field Trip- May 16th @ 9:00
Learning Celebration- May 16th @ 2:00
Field Day- May 20th, All Day

Things that have been sent home and need to be returned to school:
* White shirt to Tye dye
* Mother's Day form

Things coming home soon and need to be returned:
* Learning Celebration form
* Sno Cone money
Field Trip Permission Form and $
Pizza Party Form and $


Thank you and please let me know if you have questions or if you need new forms.

Published Pieces continued...

Here are our newest online authors! Enjoy!!!
Jacob
Ben T.
Erik
Josie
Evie
Olivia
Dean
Sophie
Finn
Ben S.
Nikhil
Flynne
Logan 
Etta
Lily
Colin

Expert Authors!

The children are continuing to work tirelessly on publishing their first books digitally.  I have encouraged the children to publish as many pages as possible while still focusing on exploring the Pixie publishing tool (we will be publishing digitally for the remainder of the school year). Here are our latest amazing published pieces...keep checking back, there are more to come tomorrow!

Ally

Laila

Ethan

Living Things

Yesterday for our living things unit we explored what makes something living versus non-living.  We learned about the many characteristics of living things and then played a living/non-living sorting game.  To dive deeper, we looked at where living things live today.  We discovered many different types of habitats and will be exploring how these habitats affect what animals choose to eat, how they protect their young, and what other types of animals they are exposed too.  We will also be creating habitat homes in teams during the course of this unit!

Delightful Day!

Happy birthday to our sweet Josie!  We celebrated the day with doughnuts, apple juice and of course some "ice cream and cake".  We are getting so big and looking more and more like first graders every day!  

Happy birthday Miss Josie!

Non-Fiction Sneak Peek

We are in our final week of non-fiction writing and the children are working hard to publish their expert books.  We are SO excited to share our hard work with you.  Today we had a few kindergartners finish their first books.  Please check out our incredible digital book (as a sneak peek as to whats coming)...we are amazing authors!

Ava

Spring Tree

This is the Heroes and their spring tree (LA).  The tree has blossoms on it (ER). We love our spring tree because it gives us lots of answers to science (LH). There is flowers around our tree (BT).  Flowers do not grow if you say "grow, grow" (AH).  Flowers grow by air, water, and sunshine (DU).  Flower need lots of sunshine to grow (BS). Flowers need soil and dirt to keep them nice, but you don't have to put dirt (AC).

Purple Cow

Today we had a special visitor who told us the story of "the purple cow".  We learned how to make a purple cow (a special ice cream drink) just like the story and helped Ms. Sinnokrak write a how-to teaching book.  The best part was we got to try them ourselves.  We love purple cows and our tummies did too!

A big thank you to Mrs. Seal, the author of "The Purple Cow" and inspiration behind this fun tradition.  We love our resident author!