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Pennies for Planting
Here are the pennies that we collected to plant our tree. All of the kindergarteners are voting on what kind of tree we should plant and where it should be planted this week. How much money to you think we collected? Leave a comment with your guess. Stay posted to find out the true amount and what kind of tree we will be buying...
Our Totem Pole
Room 131's Totem Pole
We read the story Totem Poles by Jennifer Frantz and decided to make our own totem pole. We read about how each family of the Haida people would pick an animal to represent their family. The totem poles were like a coat of arms. They told who the family was. We also read about how when they raised a pole they would have a feast called a potlach and that the man that carved the pole would do a special dance. Enjoy this movie of our potlach. Each "family" of students chose an animal to represent their group and did a little dance when they placed their animal on our totem pole. We also watched some great short videos about totem poles on YouTube.
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It....
Our newspaper articles about what we will be doing when we grow up...
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Spider Facts
We have been busy researching spiders. Here is a list of facts that we learned about spiders and a movie of our spider project:
- spiders have 2 body parts
- all spiders make silk
- spiders spin webs
- baby spiders are called spiderlings
- some spiders are poisonous
- spiders like to climb
- spiders eat insects
- spiders don't stick to their webs because they are covered in oil
- spiders have blue blood
- spiders have fangs
- some spiders carry their babies on their back
- most spiders have 8 eyes
- spiders have 8 legs
- spiders like to build webs at night
- spiders turn their food into soup and suck it up
- the biggest spider is as big as a dinner plate
- spiders have spinnerets
- spiders are arachnids
- spiders smell with their legs
- spiders are different sizes
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Ask your child to tell you what they learned about spiders this month.
Room 131...Where the Wild Things Are
We read the classic book Where the Wild Things Are
and painted our own wild things.
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Kindergarten Tree Project
As part of our year long study of trees we are collecting pennies to buy a tree to plant at our school. We are going to use this map of our school to choose and vote on where we should plant our tree.
We are going to vote on what kind of tree we should plant. A sugar maple, white oak or a Japanese Zelkova.
Here are the pennies we have collected so far. We are going to be collecting pennies until November 4th. It has been very exciting for the children to dump their pennies into the jar. Stay tuned as we make some very important decisions about our tree and find out how much money we have collected. A special thanks to Denny McKeown for working with us on this project!
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