Bringing Spring--Peep's Groundhog Day episode

The kindergartners enjoyed watching this video about shadows and groundhogs!

Bringing Spring--Peep's Groundhog Day episode

Will the Groundhog See His Shadow?

Measurement

Using cubes to measure objects in the room. pic.twitter.com/R47gfFVtqP
— Mrs.Piltz' Kinders (@MrsPiltzK) January 28, 2015

App Smash!

Today we completed a fun project using two new apps and an old favorite.  :)  I wanted the kids to make predictions about whether or not the groundhog will see his shadow on Groundhog Day.  I decided to have them record their predictions in a photo collage using the Pic Collage app.  However, I didn't want them to have to spend too much time finding or making a picture of a groundhog, so I uploaded a stock photo of a groundhog into a shared folder using the Showbie app.  The kids were able to download the photo onto their camera rolls, then insert into their photo collage.  They added stickers (a sun or clouds) and words to show their predictions.  The students posted their finished projects onto their Kidblog.  Fun!

Winter Carnival

The Winter Carnival is this Friday from 6-8pm.  Tickets are available for purchase before and after school, and the evening of the carnival.  This is always a very fun family event.  Miss Heather has a fun Cosmic Bowling booth planned for our class, along with Miss Ash's first grade.  Please stop by our booth for some fun and to help us raise money for our classrooms and students!

Donations are still needed for some of the booths.  If you can supply any of the following, please let me know: cakes, cupcakes, stuffed animals and books.  Thanks!

Hundredth Day Superheroes!

I found this awesome idea on Mrs. Miner's blog about making 100th Day Superhero capes!  I love it.  Your child will be bringing home a plastic "cape" and note explaining that you need to decorate it with 100 things and bring it back to school by the 100th day, which is February 3rd.  The superheroes will wear their capes all day, as we do fun 100th day activities! I hope this will be a fun counting activity to do at home.  Tip: it is easier to make 100 if you create 10 groups of 10!

Football Day - January 30th

We are having a special Football Day at school on Friday! Kids are encouraged to wear football shirts or jerseys. All of our activities will be football-themed. We will graph our SuperBowl predictions and make a fun craft project. If anyone has a fun idea for a snack they'd like to bring, let me know.

Star of the Week

#staroftheweek pic.twitter.com/3E8DGDE49S

— Mrs.Piltz' Kinders (@MrsPiltzK) January 26, 2015

Letter of the Week - Ll

All About Letters from @LakeshoreLM Practicing letter #Ll pic.twitter.com/nPecSUc1J2

— Mrs.Piltz' Kinders (@MrsPiltzK) January 26, 2015

Books on Kidblog - Weekend "Homework" :)

Over the past couple of days we have been working on making our own books about arctic animals using the Book Creator app.  Today our 3rd grade buddies helped us finish them up.  We made the books into a video so the kids could post on their Kidblogs.  Their "homework" is to logon to Kidblog and show you their books.  You can login using this link.  From the login screen, the kids should select their name and enter their password.  If they don't remember it, email me.  :) It would be awesome if they could show you theirs and look at one of their classmates' books and leave the classmate a comment!

Some of you have created your own accounts.  You can login and comment, if you'd like.  If you haven't created a parent account and would like to, let me know. The code was sent home at parent-teacher conferences, but I can email it to you if you need.  Have a great weekend! 

100th Day of School

We will celebrate our 100th day of kindergarten on Tuesday, February 3rd.  This should be a fun day - please remind students it is not the end of kindergarten.  :) 

Groundhog Cupcakes Supplies Needed

     

On February 2^nd we will be making some groundhog pudding to celebrate Groundhog Day!  If you can provide any of the following, please let me know: 18 chocolate pudding cups, Nilla wafers (the circle cookies, not the rectangular ones), chocolate chips and butterscotch chips.

Playing Alphabet Mystery Box

Today we practiced letters and sounds using the Alphabet Mystery Box game from Lakeshore. The kindergartners absolutely loved this fun game!

Snow Fun Online Learning

This site has a wonderful collection of learning games involving snow, snowmen and snowflakes.

Polar Bears

Using Deanna Jump's awesome unit on arctic animals, we have been studying penguins and polar bears this week.  Yesterday, we made a really cute art project with polar bears.  Today we each wrote a fact or two that we learned about polar bears.  After the kindergartners wrote, I typed up the sentences and we glued them to our art projects.  They turned out cute and the kids did such a great job recalling facts about polar bears!