Sunny Days!

While it may have been windy outside, it was sunny in KA Kindergarten! This week we learned about the season summer. It was fun on Monday to dream of what we want to do this summer. We wrote about what we want to do, and drew pictures. Most of the students can't wait to swim, while one student wants to golf and another wants to go fishing.

On Tuesday we learned more about the heat in summer. We did an experiment using our class gecko;s heat lamp as our pretend sun. We observed a thermometer and how it tells the temperature. Then, we got two bowls of ice cream and placed one under the "sun". Throughout the day we made observations about the melting ice cream progress.

Thursday was the anticipated beach day! We had fun pretending to spend the day in the sun on our beach towels. We played beach games and made sand castles. And of course we had to enjoy our favorite sunny day treat, ice cream! It's amazing how everything is instantly more fun when done on a beach towel.

Fishing for words

Perfect end to a fun day!

In phonics this week we have learned about silent "e" and long vowel sounds. We learned word families like "ire", "ine", "ike", "une", "one", and "ose". We will continue to learn more about vowels and other grammar rules.

In math we talked about symmetry and reviewed solid shapes and patterns. We also began to learn about nickels, and counting them by five.

For a craft this week we made our own "ice cream" paint using shaving cream and glue. The paint puffed up on our paper when we painted ice cream cones with them! They were very fun to decorate.