NEW, New Movies for Fall of 2011
We are a busy bunch. Our learning is best seen in action. Enjoy these short films. They should bring you joy. Share them with grandparents and friends!
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Our Sunny Sunflower Week
- This movie include the exciting sunflower science
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Chicka Boom Boom Week
- We really worked on the alphabet thanks to a coconut tree. Watch all we did in this busy 5 days and then look at the next movie of our Chicka Boom Play!
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Our TOTALLY Unrehearsed Chicka Boom Play
- We retell the chicka boom story. Watch how it is done!
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A Snip-it From Parent INFO Night
- Thanks parents for coming and sharing an evening with me. This is just a small clip from that night!
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A House-ful of Learning
- We took our tree study into the building of homes. Watch us do reading, math art and science with houses in mind.
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An Apple a Week Learning
- We used apples to help us with reading, math and science skills. It was YUMMY fun!
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Apple MATH for Johnny Appleseed Day
- Watch as we learn about height, weight, circumference and graphing all by using an apple!
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How We Do Reading Buddies
- Every child in this class has an upper grade buddy for 30 minutes a day. Watch all the learning practice we do!
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A Play...Owl Babies
- We read the book "Owl Babies" and we pweformed this play over and over in our classroom. Watch and share the joy!
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LEAF Us Alone & We Will Learn
- We are working on color words and combining this skill with a scientific adventure into autumn leaves. Watch as a learning "FALLS" down!
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Our Funny Scarecrows
- We scare up lots of learning. Watch with a crow..or not!
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All About Trees Fieldtrip
- We visited our school forest and then we had a vist from the folks at Talk About Trees. Watch as we make our OWN paper!
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Our Version of The Little Old lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything
- We love to retell favorite stories. Watch our version of this scarecrow tale.
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Pumpkins Teach Kindergarten
- We used pumpkins to invite learning in reading, science and math. Watch our adventures in orange!
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SPIDER Homework
- We are assigned family homework each month. In october we were asked to do ANYTHING about a spider. Wait till you see and hear our learning!
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Batman Phonics
- We have found a very fun way to practice our sounds. We know you will like it!
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Arachnids Invade Kindergarten
- We are spider experts! Look at all we have done with arachnids! It's creepy!
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Spider Parent Teacher Child Conference
- We "theme" up our parent conferences. We share our spider learning with the ones we love the most!
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We HARVESTED a Party on Halloween
- We partied and learned skills at the same time. Watch our Halloween fun and see how many skills we practiced!
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Retelling of the Very Hungry Caterpillar
- We have a great puppet and many props to retell this story. Watch and try not to get hungry!
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Fruit Foodies...Very Hungry Caterpillar Style
- Come with us on this fruit learning adventure. You'll see reading, science, art, math and more
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Our APPLE Store Fieldtrip
- We took our 1st fieldtrip to the Apple Computer Store. We learned to use photo booth and we created a story about ourselves. We also got bright yellow t-shirts! What fun!
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Reading and Writing About PIZZA
- It's a yummy week of learning in kindergarten. You need to watch this movie and see how this delicious food inspired our reading and writing this week! You will be amazed.
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Thanks and Giving
- We had a short time to learn about this holiday. See us in action.
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Heads-Up Writing
- We use Mr. Potato Head to inspire our writing. We do REAL work while thinking we are playing!
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My Oh MY...Pizza Pie
- We created our own pizzas today. Watch K chefs do their thing!
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Our Learning Will RISE With YEAST
- We watched a can of dough explode and then we did some investigation with yeast and dough.
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ELFish Fun Helps US Learn
- We read several versions of "The Shoemaker and the Elves". This story inspired all our learning this week. Watch for sheer joy!
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The LIGHTS of December
- Let's study the worldwide festivals of light. Watch this film. It will BRIGHTEN your day!
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The Day Our COOKIE Ran Away
- We baked a gingerbread man and he escaped. Watch us chase him all over the school.
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Our Sweet Week of Learning
- It is all about the candy and the frosting. Watch how we take the story of the gingerbread man out of the books and into our kindergarten learning.
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Jumping ball Science Experiment
- We had some fun using our own wind power to make a ball jump.
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The Week Before our WINTER Break
- We had lots of holiday fun. Watch how we learned and celebrated.
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Our Winter Party
- We learn about many December celebrations during our winter party.
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Farewell to Mrs. Dirksen
- We wanted our student teacher to know how much she has given to us. Watch this sweet goodbye.
