Brown Bear, Pete the Cat, Mouse Paint, and More!

We have been working hard in kindergarten!  Here are some of the fun things we did last week:

We practiced writing our numbers the correct way.  We took a break from doing it on paper and used play-dough to make the numbers during center time.

We are continuing to review each letter of the alphabet.  Alphabear hides his alphabet friends for the day around our room and we have to find them.  We also figure out how many people have that letter of the alphabet in their name.

We also practiced writing our names the correct way.  We are making sure that there are no capital letters in the middle!

The kids LOVE reading around the room during center time. 

We practiced writing our letters in gel.  They kids liked smelling the gel bags as much as they liked writing in them.  :)

The kids got to read to a stuffed animal this week.  It was very exciting!  They are learning that they are all readers...even if they don't know how to read with words yet.  We talked about how to be a good reader using the pictures.

We went fishing for letters.

And we made sentences using the word wall words we have been learning.  If you would like to have a fun pointer at home for your child, I just bought some fun pre-painted shapes at Hobby Lobby for 59 cents each.  Then I used a glue-gun to glue each shape to a dowel.  For about $1, it will be a fun thing for your child to use to read around the house!

We read the book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin.  The kids LOVE this story!  Here is an online video with the author telling the story that we have seen in class.  I told the kids I would share the video so they can watch it at home!   

We even made our own Pete the Cats and picked which color of shoes he was wearing. 

 

We went on a color hunt around the room.  The animals from Brown Bear, Brown Bear were hiding all over and we took a clipboard around the room and searched for them.  The kids practiced writing the color word on their paper when they found an animal.

They were great little detectives!

We also read the book, Mouse Paint.  The kids had fun retelling the story on our white board.

Then we danced in our own mouse paint and mixed red, yellow, and blue paint to make 3 new colors!

Titan was our first Star Student of the year!  His mom came in and helped Titan share his memories with the class.

Everyone liked hearing about Titan's pets.  He even used to have a goat!  Thanks for sharing your fun memories with us Titan!

Enjoy your break and I will post again when we go back on track.