Native American pictographs...fun!

This past week we spent time learning about how Native Americans told stories using pictures. See if your child can retell you the story about the Little Brown Duck Shinnabis? See if your child can retell the Thanksgiving story by using their re-telling beaded bracelet?

We enjoyed using a punch set and some leather to make name plates with pictures...check them out!

We are THANKFUL!

We had a wonderful time at the Thanksgiving Feast! The food was fabulous and the company even better!

Thank you to all those who helped make it possible...parents, cafeteria, janitorial, friends, volunteers and administration!

THANK YOU!

No Bones about it...we loved learning about animal skulls!

We had a great visit from Mr. Benenati. He is a science teacher at another school (and Cascade's dad!) but he came to school to teach us about animal skulls. He has a collection and brought a few to our class to share with us. We became very interested in parts of skeletons a few weeks ago when we explored owl pellets(regurgitated matter) and found the actual bones from mice and other small rodents! It was very cool! Ask us about the skulls that we saw...the picture about shows me holding a (stuffed!) owl and the skull of a Great Horned Owl! Thank you Mr. Benenati!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun day on Halloween. We paraded around the bus circle and enjoyed a little party before heading out for our own celebrations!

(Yes, we adults were a few of the letter people!) If you are interested and would like a closer look at the costumes... we have a book in class that we made from the day called "Boo, Boo, Guess Who?" Check it out!

What was for snack? "Mice Crispie Treats" of course!

Last week we were learning about the color "brown" and Tyler's snack day fell on brown day. As a special treat we made "mice crispie treats" using chocolate rice crispies..they were measy but GOOD! Thank you.

Who, who is crazy about owls? We are!

We learned all about owls last week...and once again borrowed a stuffed REAL owl from the old science class's collection for a hands on chance to see owls up close and personal. This is a Great Horned Owl. Ask your child about owls!

Thanksgiving Feast!

Dear families...please forgive me for my lapse in blogging...I have been busy and although all moments in kindergarten are fun...sometimes there just isn't time to do it all! That being said...

FRIDAY is the THANKSGIVING FEAST! Our class will be eating at 10:37. You or your loved ones may come to our class at around 10:25 and then walk to the feast with us. I believe we will have all of the tickets in our classroom...line up with family...(in bus order of course :-) ) and hand out the tickets to everyone. We will then walk up to the gym, where we will be eating and enjoy the feast together. It should be a fun day. During the feast we will have a chance to see a short video of the whole school singing the Thanksful song...it is adorable and will move you like it did me I am sure!

We have been spending the week learning about real...live...turkeys. This turkey is part of the RC Buclkey science collection and has been a great learning tool. Ask your child what they learned about turkeys!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Engels' kindergarten votes....guess the lucky color?

Yes, it was election day and although kindergarten children cannot vote for candidates...we can vote on something relevant in the life of a 5 year old...our favorite color! Our class voted and the color "pink" won by a slight margin with 4 votes...but green blue and red were right behind with three votes apiece! Congratulations pink!

Tulip Test Garden planted at RC Buckley Elementary

The kindergarten grade level planted their tulips today as part of the TULIP Project through the Journey North site. The children planted their bulbs 8 in. in the ground (which seems a little deep given our climate...but we do as we are told in kindergarten!)... then we covered them up. We will be registering and signing up to be a part of the project over the next few days. We look forward to seeing our beautiful red tulips in the spring!

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tulip/index.html