Earth Day

Today is Earth Day!

We have been busy, busy in Kindergarten learning about the history of Earth Day, reducing, reusing, and recycling, and how we can help take care of our planet every day.  

We did a sorting activity with reducing, reusing, and recyling this morning, read a Little Critter book,  learned a fun song (see above), and had our 5th grade buddies from Ms. Clark's class come and help us with a writing project. 

Our prompt was "Dear Mother Earth...." 

We used coffee filters to create an earth and sprayed it with water to blend the colors.  They turned out great! 

Looking for some online Earth Day activities?  Click below:

Memory, Paint, Word Games, Puzzles

Craft ideas and printables

Somewhat related, we have been checking in on the Pittsburgh eagles  from time to time and some of the kids wanted the link for home:  click here

We have watched them go from eggs, to little babies, to growing eagles! Check them out before they fly the coop.:) 

More about the Pittsburgh eagles: "After an absence of more than 200 years, the Bald Eagle is back and nesting in the City of Pittsburgh. This historic pair of once endangered raptors are nesting for a second year on a steep bluff above the Monongahela River in Hays near Pittsburgh's Southside. This web cam, made possible by PixController and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, is the first and only web cam documenting an eagle nest in Pennsylvania."

March Bulletin Boards!

Right when you walk in the front door of IVE, you'll see the Kindergarten-created front display!  The prompt was "What makes you mad?" for "March Madness."  These are always quite entertaining and the kids did a great job. :) 

March was Dr. Seuss month! We worked on labeling parts of the Cat and the Hat.  Labeling is a writing skill we focus on quite a bit in Kindergarten

This was a fun art/writing project that the kids did to tell how they are lucky!  Most of them are in the classroom while some are out in the hall.  

Be sure to check these out in person sometime! 

Dr. Seuss Week Coming Up! :)

Dr. Seuss's birthday is Sunday, March 2nd.  We will be celebrating him all next week!

Here are some Dr. Seuss links for fun!:

listen to books online

Seussville Online

Printable fun and games

List of games with descriptions

PBS Kids Cat in the Hat

Greg Tang Math

Mrs. Tracy Kerth, our school math coach, taught the kids how to play some games on the Greg Tang math website: Greg Tang Math There's currently a math Olympic challenge going on! :) 

Click here to access games: Games  (this also came home on an orange-ish slip of paper)

The games the kids learned were Kakooma, Break Apart, and Missing Number.  All games were started on the "easy" level.  

This is a GREAT game website for a good math challenge.  There are also printables.  

Have fun! 

100 Chart

In EnVision math, we are on  topic 6: numbers to 100.  We learned about the 100 Chart today: patterns we see, columns and rows, and how to use numbers around a missing number to solve the problem.  Below are some great games to play to work on 100 chart skills!  

ABCYa! 100 Chart game

Paint on a 100 chart

Using a 100 Chart to solve problems

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

Part of one of our last days of 2013 was spent with our beloved Pete the Cat! These stories are wonderful, funny, and carry a meaningful message.  The link below is to the Pete the Cat page where your child can listen to the songs from the books for free.  The one we did today was Pete the Cat Saves Christmas.

Happy Holidays!

Link to Pete the Cat songs and more! :) 

Place Value

We are continually working on place value in Kindergarten through counting the days of school each day.  We do this with straws. 

 Tomorrow in math, we will look at using cubes to decompose numbers.  Below a link full of great games that hit on this skill of place value!

Place Value Games