A Delicious Week in Kindergarten

We celebrated TWO, no, THREE birthdays this week!  Maycie's birthday was Wednesday, and Sawyer shared his birthday with his mom on Friday!  Thank you all for the fun birthday treats!

We finished up our studies of fall and leaves this week with an experiment about veins.  We made hypotheses about what would happen when we put celery in colored water.  Then the next day we checked our results... It was amazing!  The kids were thrilled when they could see BLUE veins all over the celery!  We also found blue veins on ourselves.  We talked about what veins do for leaves, and what veins do for us, too!  Then of course, some of us tasted our edible experiment.

We continued our study of leaf veins by doing some leaf rubbings so that we could see the veins better.

We explored circles, rectangles and squares, and had a yummy math lesson figuring out how to turn rectangles into squares and squares into rectangles with graham crackers.

We had another delicious math lesson when we measured and counted ingredients for our cranberry apple pies!  They turned out great, thanks to Joni Roslansky, who helped us make the crust, and Sawyer Roslansky, who helped us play in the flour, and Loretta Fitting who provided the all-important icecream!  We had a neat opportunity to share our pies with our First Grade neighbors and with staff around the school who help us every day.

In reading we are working hard on rhyming words, and we created some wonderful poetry.  If you are in the school, stop by and read the leaves on our Poet - Tree.  You'll find poems about lizards and blizzards, batman, fall, shooting stars, and much more!  Thank you to our wonderful T.A. Madison Crozier for her help in writing groups!