Kindergarten Here We Come….

Thank you for joining us on our learning adventures in transitional kindergarten.  We have had an awesome year growing, creating, discovering, and exploring new things.  We are ready for kindergarten….Let us share with you for the last time!

Reviewing the Alphabet With Fun and Friends (in 21 days)…

A – Autograph Day

Autograph Day

B – Bubble Day

C – Cracker and Cookie Day

Graham crackers, cream cheese, and nutella make a great sandwich cookie!

D/E – Dance Exercise Day

F – Favorite Book Day

G – Game Day

H – Hat Day

I – Ice Cream Day

J – Joke Day       We shared silly jokes!

K – Kooky Hair Day

L – Luau Day

M – Movie Day with a Mickey Movie

movie day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N/O – Nature Day and the Outdoors

Effie Yeaw Nature Center visited our classroom and brought many animals, including Echo the owl and Jasper the gopher snake!

P – Picnic Day

Q – Question Day

What was your favorite activity in TK this year?

Please click on the following link to view our Voicethread project – http://voicethread.com/#thread/7964392/43717481

R – Relay Race Day

Relay Races

 

 

 

 

 

 

S – Silly Socks Day and Solar Cooking

T – Tea Party

Tea Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U – U.S.A. Day

V – Visitor Day

W/X/Y – Water Play Day and Extra Recess in the Yard

Water Play Crew

The Water Play Crew

Z – Zestful Learning!

Thank you so much for a fabulous year!  I’ll miss you, little TKs!

 

Earth Day Is Every Day

We celebrate the earth every day as part of our TK curriculum…. soil, worms, caterpillars, butterflies, and plants.  Please take a closer look…

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Worm Composting – We compost our food scraps and feed our worms.  The worms make rich, dark compost for our fall and spring planting.

Gardening – We planted lettuce, beets, and carrots in the fall.  We just planted our flower seeds last week….they are now starting to grow!

Flowers – Taking a Closer Look

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly – The Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly lays its eggs on the tender leaves and stems of the California Pipevine plant.   The eggs hatch into caterpillars and feed on the pipevine  leaves, transforming into a chrysalis through the winter and finally emerging as a Swallowtail Butterfly in the spring.

We Made a Swallowtail Butterfly Book

Celebrating the earth with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees

 

 

 

 

Welcome Spring!

We celebrated spring with eggs, nests, bunnies, and treats!

Coloring eggs with natural food products is so much fun…using cabbage, grape juice, blueberries,  parsley, and turmeric.

Nests

Bunny love!

Fun, fun, fun!

OPEN HOUSE March 24, 2016

Join us as we showcase our learning adventures in TK…. the “letter of the week”, science, art, and fun.

Welcome to our classroom

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss – March 2, 2016

We celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with reading, sorting, counting, and fun!  Can you believe Dr. Seuss would have been 112 years old this year?

We read many Dr. Seuss books including 1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. We counted fish, graphed fish, and put red and blue fish in a fishbowl.

We read The Foot Book and measured with our feet.

We read The Cat in the Hat.

We made the Cat’s hat with bananas and strawberries.

Oh, wait….is that a ten frame?  Five plus four more…5 + 4 = 9

Then we made a pattern to make the Cat’s hat!

Cat in the Hat Kabobs

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS….WE LOVE YOU!

Wearing our cat hats

Love and Kindness

 

Love is in the air as we return to school after a long winter’s nap. (We’re so happy to be back after a six week break!) We celebrated Valentine’s Day and Kindness Week with the letter V.

 

We wrote about love…

We decorated with love…

 

We played with our friends…

We sang about love…

Click below to hear us sing.

Let it snow…let it snow…let it snow…

TKs celebrate the holiday season.

We celebrated the winter season with a holiday performance beginning with Rudolph, Santa, and his elves… and continued with games, learning, and lots of fun!

TK Holiday Performance – December 16, 2015

 

Family and Friends…

More learning and fun!

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We Are Thankful – Thanksgiving

TKs show their appreciation in many ways.  We shared special family foods and traditions with one another.  Let us share with you…

 

Thanksgiving Lasagna

Click below and I will tell you about lasagna.

Thanksgiving Muffins

Click below and I will tell you about muffins.

Thanksgiving Apple Juice

Click below and I will tell you about apple juice.

 Mexican RiceClick below and I will tell  you about Mexican rice.

Thanksgiving Pokeys

Click below and I will tell you about Pokeys.

It Is Thanksgiving BookClick below to hear me read.

 

Little TK Turkeys

Little TK Turkeys

 

Celebrating October

Celebrating autumn is so much fun…with pumpkins, skeletons, spider webs, and bats!

We celebrated October with family and friends.

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Fall Harvest

Photo Booth Magic

Family Fun

Looking for Someone…Guess Who?

TK Pumpkin Patch

Black Bat, Black Bat, What Do You See?… a book created, illustrated, and read by TK’s is coming soon!

Black Bat, Black Bat, What Do You See? A book created, illustrated and read by TKs.

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