End of the Year Movie!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

End of the Year Movie!

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Peace Center Field Trip

Friday, May 7, 2010

This week we went on our last field trip of the year. We went to Cleveland Park and to the Peace Center to see the play Charlotte's Web. The kids were wonderful and had a fun time! Watching them play on this equipment scared me!






Finding some shade! It was a very warm day!




Mrs. Robinson having lunch with her grandson.

I think their favorite part was going back and forth in the chairs. We had front row seats!




Whooped!


Going..

going...


and gone!

Diggin' Dinos!

One of the most rewarding parts of teaching kindergarten is see the growth the kids make from August to May. The each arrive to school a little unsure of themselves and insecure. To see these kids makes me so proud of them. They have become so independent! After putting dinosaur number words in order, we practiced writing them. In the Mexican Restaurant, we put number words 0-10 in order. They were written in Spanish.

They really enjoy playing math games together.
One of the kids favorite parts of the week is the estimating jar. Each week we put a new item in a different size jar and estimate how many pieces of candy are in the jar. We have all week, during centers, to make an estimate. If we try, at the end of the week, we get to sample the candy. If we estimate the correct number, we get to take the jar of candy home.


We got a little messy digging for fossils in the science center.


We enjoyed finding all the different treasures in the fossil mounds. It was hard work to find them!



Each morning the kids have a writing assignment to complete in their journals. They enjoy reading their journals to the class. We were sharing about our favorite part of the field trip.

The Dinosaurs Are Back!

Friday, April 30, 2010

The kids had a fun week exploring dinosaurs and raising money for Relay For Life!Each day the kids paid $1 to participate in Relay For Life Spirit Week! Ravenel raised over

$2, 000 this week!
It was a windy, beautiful day for the balloon release.

We released balloons in memory or honor of people effected by cancer. Then we took a lap of silence around the track.


playing math games

Can you write the missing number?

You can hear the kids singing in the listening center. It's too cute!
We sorted dinosaurs and tallied how many we had. We had to sort the dinosaurs 6 different ways. It was a challenge!


Happy Birthday JC!

We've heard some very interesting conversations in our Mexican Restaurant!



For snack we were herbivores and carnivores. As carnivores we ate chicken legs and matzo balls (for dinosaur eggs).



In art, we painted a dinosaur scene. Next week, we will add characters to our painting.


We were so proud of how well the kids measured the "dinosaur bones" in science.

We compared, predicted, and counted using dinosaur eggs, a human foot, and a dinosaur foot.

Magnetized

Monday, April 19, 2010

This week we had fun discovering magnets.We made predictions and tested to see which magnet would hold the most paper clips.
We discovered that magnets can be attracted to each other through paper and plastic.


We moved a marble using a magnet and created a magnet marble painting.





Exploring magnets in science



Building with magnets

writing rhyming families


playing war

learning to play phone-a-word-we call our friend and ask them to spell a high frequency word


We've enjoyed putting on a puppet show for our friends.