Mrs. Deaton's Kinders

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Read Across America Week

We are having such an awesome time in Kindergarten because it is Read Across America week! We are learning about Dr. Seuss because his birthday is March 2nd.... this coming Saturday! Yesterday, we got to wear hats if we paid a dollar to the American Red Cross. Today, we wore silly socks. Mrs. Deaton let us take our shoes off for most of the day so everyone could see our silly socks. It was so much fun!

Here are some cool things we know about Dr. Seuss:
"He write words and draws the pictures in some of his books." Paulina
"Dr. Seuss is just his pen name." Nick
"His real name is Theodore Geisel." Selena
"He writes really funny books for kids." Aaron
"Sometimes, he uses his last name backwards (LeSieg)." Gracie

Today is Kamila's 6th birthday. We sang to her and let her blow out some pretend candles. Her mommy sent in cupcakes for us to eat and treat bags for us to take home. Kamila's daddy sent her roses to school. How sweet!

In work centers today, we did a lot of Cat in the Hat things. Some of us made a Cat in the Hat. Some of us worked on our rhyming words and put them in a Cat in the Hat envelope. One group got to put pattern block shapes on Horton. Another group worked on matching opposite pictures. Some of us matched rhyming pictures and wrote silly sentences on green eggs. Dylan wrote this silly sentence: "The duck carries the truck." Abby wrote, "The bear is on top of the chair." Paulina said, "The spoon is in the moon." We are very silly, just like Dr. Seuss.

In math we have been talking about different ways to make 10. Here are a few ways to make a 10:
3+7=10
5+5=10
2+8=10
9+1=10
8+2=10
0+10=10
6+4=10

Also, we have been counting by 2's, 5's and 10's all the way to 100. Guess what!! We are singing the same song on the Smartboard that our friends from China are singing. We met our friends from China on Twitter.

What a great day!! We are excited about tomorrow because it is TACKY DAY!!!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

100th Day of School!!

Happy 100th day of school everyone! Today, we celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten! We had such a wonderful day doing some really fun activities.

Mrs. Greenlee visited our school today. She is 100 years old. Mrs. Greenlee was the principal of South Elementary School a very long time ago. We were happy to get to meet her today. ;)

This morning, we did 100 exercises. It was really hard and tiring! We all needed water when we finished. Whewww!!

Today we all brought 100 pennies to school. We made a penny quilt in the gym. It was really fun.

We had a very special 100s day snack today. We got to count 10 pieces of 10 different snacks and put them on our paper. Then, we got to eat it all. We were full when we finished our snack! Yummy!

Another fun 100s day activity we did was when we found 100 hershey kisses hidden around the room. We put the kisses on some huge lips Mrs. Deaton had. It was awesome.

During math, we colored in some numbers on a hundreds board. Our picture made the number 100. We are so smart!

Today has been a wonderful day in school. We only have 80 more days until Kindergarten is over. Wow!

Check out these pictures of our really cool Promethean Activtable. We got to play on this awesome table for a few weeks. We played games, did puzzles and practiced building words on the Activtable. We hope we will get to use it again soon. It was so cool!