happy halloweeeeeeeen!!!!!

We had a blast at our Halloween party!

(This picture is for Marin's great grandma…Happy Halloween!)

Some of my students stopped by my house to trick or treat...

a beary fun day in kindergarten

We brought our bears to school so celebrate the end of our reading workshop unit, Powerful Partnerships. We counted Teddy Grahams during math, wrote about bears during writing workshop and read with our bears during reading workshop.  We had a beary fun day...

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this week in kindergarten

we played lots of ten frame games...

 we played Ten Frame Snap on the iPads...

 we brought our bears to school to celebrate the end of the 

Powerful Partnerships Reader's Workshop Unit...

 we made a map of our community during social studies workshop…

 we went on a field trip to the police station and fire station...

A special thank you to all the parents that went on our field trip with us, 

especially Andrew's dad who showed up in his police uniform!!

GO AWAY Big Green Monster Reader's Theater

monsters love letters

We read this about monster that love colors. This book sparked a discussion about monsters loving other kindergarten things like letters, numbers, shapes...  Then we made these adorable colorful monsters that love letters.

Make your own monsters that love letters.

(font: Whackadoodle Doo)

this week in kindergarten

we used 5 frames to play games and learn about numbers

we played Growing Kinders' caveman game...

and her kids on the bus activity...

and lots of other 5 frame games...

we wrote and illustrated (using our thumbprints) a poem about monsters...

we made monsters that love letters...

we made monster mash with Mrs. Raymore...

we practiced reading and sharing with our reading buddies...

we drew Christopher Columbus' three ships...

 and we made a BIG mess at the art center during free choice...

literature connections...

Happy Friday!