Kindergarten Here We Come….

Posted on July 2, 2016 by mscheung under June

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

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

: Share your favorite book from home.

G – Game Day

: Share your favorite game from home.

H – Hat Day

I – Ice Cream Day

J – Joke Day We shared silly jokes!

K – Kooky Hair Day

L – Luau Day

: Making pineapple kabobs

M – Movie Day with a Mickey Movie

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!

: Jasper the Gopher Snake

: Jasper the Gopher Snake

: Beaver pelt

: Baby Jackrabbit

: Echo the Owl

: Echo the Owl in Flight

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

S – Silly Socks Day and Solar Cooking

: Making pizza and S’mores

: Cooking with the sun

: Ready yet?

T – Tea Party

U – U.S.A. Day

V – Visitor Day

: Miss Vicky read us a story.

: Mrs. Freeman dances the Tooty Ta with us!

: Miss Barbara read about our favorite pigeon.

: Miss Ashley and Miss Nani sing “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?

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

: Chalk Painting

: Chalk Painting

: Chalk Painting

: Chalk Painting

: Shaving Cream!

: Shaving Cream!

: Pool Play

: Tunnel Train

: Bubble Magic

: Water Basketball

: Parachute Play

: Parachute Play

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

Posted on April 22, 2016 by mscheung under April, Earth Day, Holidays, Science

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

Note: Scroll over photos to read captions

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

: Newspaper bedding for our worms

: Water for our worms

: Feeding our worms

: Caring for our worms

: Warm bedding for our worms

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

: Fall Plants -Lettuce, Beets, and Carrots

: Watering our flower plants

: Look at that! Wow! Our first plant…

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.

: California Pipevine Plant

: Swallowtail Butterfly Eggs

: Swallowtail Caterpillars

: Swallowtail Caterpillars (close up)

: Swallowtail Butterfly Chrysalis

: Swallowtail Butterfly

We Made a Swallowtail Butterfly Book

Celebrating the earth with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees

Welcome Spring!

Posted on April 3, 2016 by mscheung under March, 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.

: Cabbage?

: Cabbage makes a blue dye.

: How pretty!

Nests

: A small bird lived here!

: A chocolate bird lived here!

Bunny love!

Fun, fun, fun!

OPEN HOUSE March 24, 2016

Posted on April 3, 2016 by mscheung under March, Open House

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

Scroll over photos below to read captions…

: D is for duck

: B is for bear

: S is for snake

: T is for turtle

: B is for bumblebee

: A chocolate bird lived here!

: O is for owl…N is for Nigel Nightowl

: I is for iguana

: Seven seeds on a strawberry

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss – March 2, 2016

Posted on March 13, 2016 by mscheung under Birthdays, Holidays, March

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!

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

Love and Kindness

Posted on March 3, 2016 by mscheung under February, Holidays

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…

: Decorating Valentine Cards

: Decorating Valentine Cards

: Decorating Valentine Cards

: Decorating Valentine Cards

We played with our friends…

: Love Beads

: Valentine Snack Chef

: Love Beads for my Mom

: Fishing for Love

: Valentine Play Dough

: Sorting Candy Hearts

: Candy Heart Bingo

We sang about love…

Click below to hear us sing.

Let it snow…let it snow…let it snow…

Posted on January 27, 2016 by mscheung under Christmas, December, Holidays

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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: Snowman…I made it myself!

: Frosty the Snowman

: Reading my snowman book!

: Holiday Sticker Counting Book

: Sorting Sequins

: Counting Marshmallows in a Mug

: Ornaments adorn the tree!

: Pinecone Ornaments

: Look what I made! ….oak gall ornament.

We Are Thankful – Thanksgiving

Posted on December 4, 2015 by mscheung under Holidays, November

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

: Thanksgiving Chicken

: Filipino Lumpia

: Filipino Dessert – Turon

: Spanish Sweet Bread

: Indian Rice

: Pumpkin Pie

Click below and I will tell you about lasagna.

Click below and I will tell you about muffins.

Click below and I will tell you about apple juice.

Click below and I will tell you about Mexican rice.

Click below and I will tell you about Pokeys.

Click below to hear me read.

: Sharing Food with Friends

: Turkey Turkey Gobble Gobble

: Eat Too Much Wobble Wobble

: Feasting Together

: Chinese Ribbon Dance

Little TK Turkeys

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

Posted on November 30, 2015 by mscheung under Birthdays, November, October, September

We celebrate new beginnings with our birthdays. All children have now celebrated their fifth birthdays. Each child received a crown and a special reading blanket. Watch us as we grow!

September Birthday Babies With Birthday Blankets