Kindergarten Stars!

We've had several friends reach the 100 Star mark recently in our classroom. This is quite an accomplishment and something these children should truly be proud of! In honor of all of their hard work, they received a special t-shirt. All of them wore them with pride! Congratulations and thank you to Charlie, Alex, and Kate! Many other friends are not far behind...I have a feeling I will be giving out many more t-shirts in the coming weeks!

Rocking Out in Kindergarten!

Today we began a science unit investigating rocks and their various properties. We started by reading a wonderful book called Everybody Needs a Rock.

 

 

We then went out to do some rock hunting of our own! In our very own H.C.S. backyard, we found some amazing rocks and everyone had a great time searching for "their" perfect rock.

 

Pat finds a striped rock.

Ben's collection.

Charlie's perfect rocks.

Rock Hunters At Work!

 

Big, small, smooth, bumpy...we found all kinds of rock!

We sorted the rocks by size. 

We brought our many rocks into our classroom to observe and explore with throughout the week. We love being scientists!



Sea Creature Picture Problems

We have been working very hard to practice solving simple addition and subtraction picture problems. Once we got really good at that, we decided it was time to write some of our own! Because we had learned all about the ocean, we wrote problems involving sea creatures. I've created an online picture book of our hard work. Please visit the link here to read our problems. Solve them if you can!