Saturday, October 18, 2014

Color Weeks

We just finished up our fun unit on colors! We had a great time wearing our "Color of the Day," reading books, and doing a variety of activities to learn all about colors. Enjoy these pictures of our activities:

Red Day!
Orange Day!
Yellow Day!
 Oops! I forgot to take a picture on Green Day!

Blue Day!
Purple Day!
Color Mixing Experiment with Allyson's mom, Kathy.

Color Mixing with cream, food coloring, and Dawn dish soap.
Allyson mixes colors like the mice in Mouse Paint!
Our Brown Bear retelling puppet.


Happy Rainbow Day!
Liam's Rainbow Hair.
Rian's Rainbow Hair.

Our Rainbow Jell-O treat!
Next up: All About Pumpkins! Followed by a spooky, Halloween-inspired unit on everyone's favorite eight-legged creatures: spiders!

Fire Safety!

We were so lucky to have members of the Hinesburg Fire Department visit us last Friday, October 10th, to help us learn about fire safety.

Allyson practices Stop, Drop, and Roll.

Theo practices Stop, Drop, and Roll.

Firefighter Rob demonstrates how he puts on his gear to fight a fire.

Firefighter Eric explains what happens if firefighters need to come to your house to help.

Kindergarten Firefighters!

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Bridges Unit 2

Today, we started our new Bridges math unit. Please read the parent letter explaining the concepts and skills covered here:
If you are interested in having your child play any of the online games that support the concepts presented in this unit, please visit this link. We played the Five Frame game on our classroom Smart Board today!