Once Upon a Time...

...there was a Kindergarten classroom that had a fun week at school! We spent this week learning about a few different fairy tales. On Monday we read Three Billy Goats Gruff, and then made our very own trolls with Play-Doh. They were a little sad that they couldn't bring them home, but the trolls had to go back to their bridges.

These trolls are too cute to scare a goat away!

On Tuesday we read about Little Red Riding Hood, with the help of some puppets. We then wrote and drew our own version of the story by completing the sentence "What big ____ you have." Some very creative answers were "hair", "mouth", and "everything".

Thursday we read about Jack and the Beanstalk. We did a science activity with the Giants Footprint, finding bigger and smaller. 

 Bigger

 Smaller

 Same Size

We also did a beanstalk sight word activity!

During out Bible time we read about the ten commandments, and started to read about David. We also started to learn a new verse: Even a child is known by his doing ~Proverbs 20:11

The students are doing great with reading their books! When we read we split up into three groups where one group reads, and the other do reading activities. One activity this week was to put "fairy dust" on sight words. The more we work with sight words, the more familiar they became with the students.

The other activity was a letter sequencing activity. 

Math is also great. We are still working on telling time to the hour, pennies, and we are not talking about nickles! Pretty soon I'll have a room full of accountants! We are also focusing on number recognition, which can be a tricky concept. 

We also had the library come in on Thursday, which is always a special treat!

Since it is harvest time, we did a harvest time craft. On Monday we used paper to weave a basket. Then on Tuesday we used sliced up vegetables to stamp paint on our pictures. The result was a cute little vegetable harvest picture.

Coming up...

We are starting a new unit all about animals. Next week focuses on animals in the Bible!