We are what we eat!

Fall in Kindergarten is so fun.  Well, every season in Kindergarten is so fun.  

This week we created poetry to decorate our Poet Tree with fall leaves!  These poems are the best, and show some true creativity and talent :) . 

We are learning about healthy food choices and the food groups.  The kids made handprint strawberries and sorted our play food into food groups.  One great talking point at dinner would be to ask your kinder to identify which foods on their plate belong to which food groups!

We had so much fun creating healthy food people for snack one day.  I thought their food people were just amazing, all so unique and awesome!

In reading we learned about Venn diagrams, nonfiction and fiction, and are still working hard on popcorn words as well as our letter sounds, letter names, rhyming, blending sounds together, and "chopping up words" to hear the sounds inside.  

We read a nonfiction story about picking apples and pumpkins and made a Venn Diagram to compare the two!

We got to watch our two T.A.'s play in a high school volleyball game on Friday.  The kinders were the cutest cheerleaders ever!!!

We had a presentation by the DOT about snowplow safety, teaching kids to get out of the way and move away from the side of the road if they see a snowplow coming so they don't get hit by flying snow or buried.  The kids got reflectors and lights to attach to their coats, and got to climb up in the big snowplows.  Honking the horns was by far their favorite part!

We took a tour of our school greenhouse this week, as part of our unit on nutrition.  We got to see where a lot of the veggies that we eat at lunch are grown!  We learned about which colors of light the plants need to absorb, see the new hydroponics unit that the high schoolers are building, see the strawberries that some of the kids planted during the greenhouse camp this summer, and pick a few cucumbers to take back to our classroom!  

We saw where our composted food from lunch goes, and learned about how it makes dirt full of nutrients to feed the new plants, completing the cycle!

We also got to run through the sprinklers and eat freshly picked carrots!  Our school greenhouse is awesome!  Not only does it provide our students with healthy fresh food for much of the year, but it is a great experiential learning opportunity!!!