Growing Minds

This week in KA Kindergarten we began to learn about gardens and how plants grow. This is such a fun theme, that we're going to spend two weeks on it! On Monday we discussed different plants and flowers that are grown, and how God made them each unique! We then wrote about our own uniqueness in this cute flower assignment.

On Tuesday we learned about what plants need to grow, and did an experiment by watching colored water travel up a celery. By the end of the day, the tip of the celery was blue like the water! Below is the idea of the experiment, I forgot to take pictures though!

On Thursday we journeyed outside to draw some plants that we could observe. However, it was so rainy, that we're moving the activity to next week. 

In reading we are continuing to work with sight words and letter blends. This week we worked with "er", "ur", and "ir". A way to help us remember the sound of these letters is by this picture.

The story is that "er", "ir", and "ur" love to drive, but they are absolutely terrible at it! So, they have to constantly be hitting their brakes and making an errrrrr sound! 

In math the students are becoming quick at addition and subtraction facts! They also began to combine different types of coins to make different amounts. We might have some future bankers in the making!

This week we learned about another famous artist, Monet. We made our own water lily pictures. On Monday we painted the water, and used plastic wrap to make waves in the paint. 

Then on Tuesday we made the lily pads and lily flowers using tissue paper. The result was gorgeous Monet like pictures!

We also started the IOWA test this week. We will be working on the test a little bit everyday for the next few weeks. The first day the students thought it was pretty fun to fill in the bubbles! But the enthusiasm wore off by the next test. With just doing one test a day though, the test shouldn't be to bad! Plus, they get to read their favourite book, Tap the Magic Tree after every test as a little reward!