Fall fun and more!

On our PM class Late Start day all of our Kindergarten classes got together for a Fall Fun day.  One of our projects was to take a Nature Walk around our school grounds.  The kids were wearing duct tape bracelets (sticky side out!) and as we walked they picked up interesting fall nature items.  Look at all of the wonderful things we found.  We worked on the concept of same and different and worked hard to be scientific observers.  (Don't worry AM class, when it is spring time and your turn for Late Start you will get to take a spring nature walk, I can't wait to see what we collect then!)

We are adding more popcorn words this week... our word wall now has the following words on it: I, am, the, little, to, a and we are beginning to work on color words, this week we added red.  This activity with magnetic letters is called "Mix it and Fix it", the children have to practice arranging and rearranging letters to spell the words.  They can use the checker sheet to be sure they have it correct.  Magnetic letters are so fun, if you don't have them for your fridge they are a great investment, and if your fridge isn't magnetic use a cookie sheet!

We were SO excited to plant bulbs in our school garden last week.  The weather was beautiful and we could almost imagine those daffodils and tulips blooming, but we know it will be hard to wait all winter.

Everyone got a turn to use the garden gloves and tools.  While we were waiting we looked at garden books from our library at the picnic table.

When we got back in from planting in our garden we drew pictures in our journals.  We are practicing labeling our pictures with words.  This writer showed the large dirt pile and the worm we found.  He also wrote the word, "dirt", it is great that this writer could hear all of the consonant sounds in the word!  

In math we are finishing our chapter on the study of numbers from 0-10.  One of the games we played used our  numeral cards, dot cluster cards and unifix cubes.  We started the game by calling out a number, they had to find (or make) that number with all three, then it got challenging... I asked them to make the numeral card show "one more", then have the dot card show "one less" then make the cubes show the "same" as the numeral and so on.  Our brains got quite a workout on the concepts of one more, one less and same.

October is Fire Safety Month, we were so delighted to have a visit from the Fire Departments and loved seeing their big ladder truck.  We enjoyed writing about the visit in our journals.