O.R.E.O. 2011

We participated in an internet project called OREO. We each had to stack up Oreo cookies to see how tall we could get before they fell down.

After we each had a turn, Mrs. Hewitt added the totals up and averaged the height of our towers. The average was submitted to the Oreo project. Oreo 2011

All of the results will be posted after the weekend, but on average Kindergarten students stacked towers of 14 Oreos. Guess what our average was? 14- Can you believe it?

Reminders

Just a reminder that picture day is tomorrow (Friday). You need to send in your picture form with money in the morning.

There is a new book order form out that is due back on Friday October 14. You can always order online. Thank you to all the people who ordered online. We received 18 dollars in book $ as well as $20 in free book picks AND 6 free books sent by Scholastic! Wow! We love to read in Kindergarten. Pete the Cat is in this book order and it comes with a cd of the song. Also, another favorite- Skeleton Hiccups can be found in the order.

We saw the Tanglewood Marionettes this afternoon. The name of the show was Perseus and Medusa. The kids really enjoyed it.

Apples

We have been talking about apples and will be talking about Fall this week and next week. I asked the kids what their favorite color apple to eat was. Most said red. We painted the apples in our favorite color and built the sentence- I like _____ apples.

Then, we had a blind taste test of red, yellow and green apples. Students labeled their plates with numbers 1, 2 and 3.

I gave them the 3 mystery apples and then we graphed which their favorite was. Check out the results- Yellow (golden delicious) was our favorite color by a landslide!

Happy Friday

Thanks for all those great book orders. I will be finalizing the order and sending it. We should have books in less than 2 weeks. If you ever decide to purchase them for a present, please let me know and I can get them to you without your child seeing them. September orders are great- we are due to receive about 75 dollars in free books. They always have great giveaways at the beginning of the year!

Be sure to check out the page with class photos. I think I figured out how to lower the jpeg size so I can put more in there all the time. It will run like a continuous slide show.

Today we ran out of Lysol Wipes for the tables. I am trying to use them often to keep germs away. Anyone who can send some in- it would be GREATLY appreciated. I could also use Baby Wipes for wipe ups after things like stamping with ink pads or sticky lunches.

Scenes from a Kindergarten Class

Here are some shots from today as we worked in small group centers in the morning.

The kids are using our "Ellie Elephant" puppets to play a math game. The Ellie Puppet allows the kids to use only 2 fingers to form a proper grip. We are working hard on gripping pencils, crayons and markers the right way.

This group is stamping the color words that go with the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

This group is having belly time to strengthen upper bodies. They are matching lower case magnetic letters to the alphabet chart.

Today we looked at parts of our name and how it looks in lower case form. We used star stickers to start our letters from the top and form them.

Stars of Kindergarten

This is our section from the front bulletin board. Every class did their own stars. Be sure to see it at Orientation Tuesday Night.

Look Who Is Popping Into Kindergarten