Owls

We just ended our Owl Unit yesterday by making our own owls! We learned about 4 types of owls: the Great Horned Owl, the Snowy Owl, the Pygmy Owl and the Barn Owl.  Our big project was to make each owl. The kids were divided into groups and assigned a specific owl.  Each group had to use their resources (their owl books and the laptops) to make sure their owl looked like the owl in the pictures. They paid close attention to the little details and they turned out very real!

Here is another fun project we did. We did a guided drawing with our black crayons of an owl. Then we used water colors to paint them!

Here is where we stored ALL of our owl information

Halloween Fun

Halloween day was so fun to celebrate! We began the day with a parade around the school to show off our awesome costumes. The TK started in our room and we followed along through the school to all the grades.

Here are the Tkers!

Now it’s our turn!

Watching the other classes in their costumes

Here we are!!!  

After the parade we read Arthur’s Halloween, read and colored our own monster books, finished a spider counting page in math and enjoyed an amazing Halloween party in the afternoon thanks to our awesome moms! Seriously, I am so thankful to you for your hard work. The kids LOVED all of the activities and fun. So did I!!!

The kids started out playing Musical Ghouls! There were pictures of pumpkins and ghouls on the floor. As the music played, the kids walked around the pictures. When the music stopped, they had to find a picture to stand on. The fun part was that no one got out! There could be more than one person on a picture. When all of the pictures but one were taken away, everyone piled onto the same one! Such a fun idea!

Next they decorated treat bags! They all got to choose their own candy pieces to make a colorful candy corn!

Our next game was “pin the legs on the spider.” The kids remembered the parts of the spider we talked about last week and pinned the legs on its body.

  

 

The last thing on the agenda was making our snack: dirt and worms!! They crushed up Oreos and put them in the chocolate pudding. Then they got to add a gummy worm. YUM! We had lots of chocolate covered faces.

Happy Halloween from Miss Richardson’s Kindergarten!!

Spider Facts

We learned a lot this week about spiders! We read many books, had a naturalist speak, made our own books called The Very Busy Spider,  made our own spiders and webs and painted our hands to make a spider poster with spider facts. Whew! We were BUSY! There were so many fun things to do with spiders! The kids learned many cool spider facts and shared those facts in their writing.

 

 

Here is the complete spider fact poster!

The students each got to make their own spider, however they wanted! As long as it had two body parts, 8 legs and 6-9 eyes..the rest was up to them! After reading the book, Be Nice to Spiders, we followed Helen’s (the spider) step by step directions in making her web. We finished them off with a little glitter

AB Patterns

We learned a lot about AB patterns this past week. The kids practiced making their own AB patterns with linking cubes, teddy bears and shapes.  On Friday we made AB patterns with people! We lined up in AB order according to gender and then according to shoes (shoelaces vs. no shoelaces).

After all of that practice, the kids made their own AB patterns with fun Halloween stickers.  Here are some examples!

  

We also made different patterns using shapes. The kids decorated their own spider web and glued the shapes on in a pattern.

Here is all of our AB pattern work in one display!

Fall Fun!

Last week we voted on what kind of pumpkin face we wanted to carve in our class pumpkin. The choices were scary, silly or sad.  The winning face was….SCARY! Here is our graph:

Today we talked about the steps in carving a pumpkin. The students filled our their own first, next and last chart. First we cut out the top. Next we take out the seeds. Last we carve the face. The students chose the eyes, nose and mouth by looking at the face option on starfall.com. This is the finished product!

Are you scared??? The kids loved watching me carve the pumpkin and drew their own version of the pumpkin on paper.

Last week we also talked a lot about the season of fall. We read lots of fun stories, used tissue paper to make maple and oak leaves change colors and drew and labeled a fall picture! Here are how the fall pictures turned out:

Itsy Bitsy Spider

This week we are learning all about Spiders! Today we voted on whether or not we liked Spiders. We had 11 yes votes and 6 no votes. At the end of the week, after we are all done learning about spiders, we will re-vote to see if we change our minds!

Today we made a KWL chart about what we already KNOW about spiders and what we WANT to know.  At the end of the week we will be able to fill in what we LEARNED. After that, we practiced singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider and made a house with a spout for the spider to crawl up and down. The spout is a pipe cleaner and we used plastic spiders. They turned out very cute. Here is an example.

More spider pictures to come! We have a lot of fun planned for this week!

Pumpkin Patch!

Today was a cold, windy day but we enjoyed everything the pumpkin patch had to offer anyway! We went through the corn maze, mini golfed, played on the playgrounds, rode big tricycles and went on a hay ride to pick our pumpkins!

Enjoy these picture from our fun day!

 

We were tired on the ride home