Design/Build a Cast, Step up day!, Last 4 Winds.

Sharing This Week.....

Willis - "This is my lego guy flashlight. I got it from my sister's birthday."

Eva - "I am doing Marry Poppins dance rehearsal today."

Eli - "I got this Eskimo from my uncle who got it from Russia. It's a Nanette people who are native. They are reindeer herders and hunters."

Max brought in his new Batman car that he got with his grandma. 

Molly  told us about her dance performance coming up. Break a leg Molly!

Kamden shared his cars with the class.

Mazie "This is my new horse that she got for $50 at a yard sale."

Maddie "This is a hatchimale, its really special because it's $29.00. It hatched after my sisters. It can turn on and roll. It can repeat your voice."

Evan shared his new sunglasses.

Ryder brought in is big truck, little trucks, fire man, and planes. 

Science......Design/Build a cast
We have been speaking so much about bones, this piece is the last part of our Human Body:Structure and Function unit.  The idea is that the kids will be able to recognize medical professionals work and that they diagnose and treat disease or injury. The kids will design a cast. Share with friends how it worked or didn't and why. They will document their progress and compare with their friends. Their cast has to be strong, light, comfortable and water resistant. This is a big step by step process and they will do this over a couple days; designing and building.

Dr. Macky used all her resources and healed Earl with a great cast.

 West was hurting, until he found Dr. Azza. She fixed him right up.

 Assistant Beth, getting materials for the doctors.

Dr. Maddie, fixing up Ethan.

 Dr. Ryan, was very cautious attending to his "patient" Molly.

 Dr. Willis worked really hard to make Eva all better with his cast.

 Dr. Grady made a strong cast for Connie. She could barely get out of it!

Evan is all set. Feeling better already.

 Eli is feeling much better now that Dr. Mazie fixed his broken arm.

 Dahlia is questioning if this cast is going to do the job!

STEP UP DAY!!!!!!
All the Kindergarteners went to 1st grade where they meet with and hung out with Gina for a little while this morning. A few favorite things they did was "playing with legos," "drawing" and "EVERYTHING!" These guys are totally ready for 1st grade.








TRIP COMING UP TO ECHO, JUNE 14th....
If you haven't already sent in money ($11/kids, $13/Adults) please do so. You also need to send in a bagged lunch for your child that day as well. It's going to be a great cumulative day for us as Kindergarteners. 




FOUR WINDS...... Flowers

 Ellen and Kathleen showed us the different parts of a flower.

We dissected flowers and figured out their parts and where they belong, like a puzzle. 

 Dissecting flowers

 Putting the paper puzzle together to make a complete flower. 

 Tasting fruit and seeing the seeds in the fruit. (Apples, cucumbers, peppers)

Finding flowers outside and seeing the different stages. 

And, drawing a picture of a flower and identifying its many parts. 

Nice flower Willis!

Mad Libs

Sharing..... 

Bodhi - "When we were on vacation my Dad got me a hat. I also got a shopkin saxophone."

Fiona - "My Dad gave me a bag for my snack for valentines day with 6 chocolates in it."

Grady - "This is a shield my Dad made me. Its really special. My Dad cut his belt to hold on to it. It is a hub cap I found in the river."


MAD LIBS Junior......
The kids have loved doing this as a whole class. They have been learning about nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. Todays was "How to Clean A Room" and "A Trip to the Doctor."

Books We Read Today......
Froggy Goes to the Doctor  by Jonathan London



Clifford's Manners by Norman Bridwell

Respect, Lice and Bones...Oh my!!!

Morning Meeting.....

We discussed about what it means to be Respectful and to Do Your Job. Principal Beth has asked that we think about what it means to be respectful and to do your job. This was also emphasized in the school bulletin.
Some ideas that kids had were,
West- "Saying something not nice is not respectful."
Mazie -"If a teacher asked you to wash the lunch table, you should just do it."
Eva -"Listen to the teachers."
Max-"Do your work."


Sharing.....

Kamden - Showed us his cool fidget spinner he got at this moms work.

Max - "Um, next weeks Wednesday, I'm going to go with my Nana and sister to Wal-Mart and she might be able to get me a Auto Octavius. This one is green and silver and yellow."

 Mazie brought in a Starfish that she got from her grandparents.

 Maddie brought in her toy dog Georgie. Georgie can bark, sit and go to sleep. 

Ryder brought in his semi truck and his match box cars. Then he shared with all the kids during free choice time. What a hit his sharing was today!

Free choice/Recess.....

McCartney made a cool building with the light blocks during free choice.

It never gets old to climb up the space net!

West and Ethan made some Origami jumping frogs.

INSIDE RECESS!!!!!

Fiona is an amazing hula hooper! Not only did she hula with one but she did with two hula hoops!

 Earl was cruizin' on the stilt cups.

Willis zoomed a scooter!

West, Max, Ryder and Beth were throwing a football.

Health Class with Deirdre........

Deirdre came in to talk about Lice today. This week all kids in the K class were checked for lice. What is lice?  They are little bugs that live in your hair. One lice is called a Louse. What is a lice egg called? A nit. Deirdre passed around cards with lice and nits and magnifying glasses so kids could look carefully at what they look like.  An adult louse can lay up to 8-10 eggs a day. Then there are many stages from nit to adulthood

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How do we get lice?  Lice do not jump, do not fly, do not swim. They crawl from head to head. Sharing hats. Hugging. Reading with heads together. Those are just a few ways we can get lice. Lice can only live up to 2 days with out a host/someones head. They survive on the human blood in your scalp. Lice do not care if you hair is super clean or really dirty. They don't care if your hair is knotty or combed nicely. Lice need your hair to grab hold of and to lay their eggs on the hair shafts. 

Questions/Answers: 

-What do you call a louse egg?  A nit.

-Do lice spread diseases?  NO. They are just a nuisance. 

-Do lice have wings? No, they have six legs and use their claw like legs to move around.

-Who gets lice? Anybody.

We all talk about sharing with our friends, but Deirdre shared with us a great saying...

"In my mouth or in my hair, these are things I never share!"

Deirdre read a great book about lice called, Yikes, Lice! by Donna Caffey.

Science.......

Today we had more time working with our bones, hand bones. We had a great experiment where we taped our fingers on one hand to make only 3 fingers. Then with our other hand behind our back, we were timed to put pegs into a peg board. The idea is that you are not able to bend your fingers. Which makes it hard to use your fingers and complete a task. After they tried to race the timer and put the pegs in the peg board, they did it without the tape and compared the differences. 

We had some question and answer time (as Scientists do), after we did the experiment. The big question was, "what did you discover as Scientists?"

A few Answers:

Eli - "it was harder taped up because we only had three fingers and they were harder to move."

Ryan -"It went well when I wasn't taped."

Ethan -"It was easier without tape."

Molly-"It was easier without tape, I could bend my fingers."

Grady - "This was a fun experiment. Thank you!"

We have discovered that we definitely need all the bones in our hands to make them work better.

Snacks, Snacks, we always need snacks. If you can provide some we greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

Have a restful and enjoyable long weekend!