Beach Day and Pizza Party!

 To celebrate being back from Spring Break, we all went to "Belize" and had a beach day!  We flew there on our "airplane", complete with snacks and an in-flight movie about Belize.  Once we arrived we played in the sand and made sand pictures!

We sang fishy songs and did beach math, and then in the afternoon, we looked at pictures and videos of all the cool animals in Belize like iguanas, sharks, and rays and lots of beautiful fish!  Then we cracked open our own coconut and drank the milk and ate the meat!  

After lunch it was time to hit the beach!  Jo Jo brought beach snacks for us, and we had a blast!

In other news, your kinder is learning fractions!  We have done fourths and halves, so if you have a chance at home, maybe at dinner, to help them divide things in half or in fourths, that would be great practice!  We made paper fraction pizzas, and wrote down our orders.  Then we made the real thing!

We have been doing LOTS of writing lately, and the kids are making LOTS of progress!  Many of the kids are independently writing stories using "kid spelling".  It is exciting for me as a teacher, and also for them, as they realize they can actually communicate through written words, and people can understand them!

Every morning they answer my Morning Message.  Usually it is just a picture or a tally mark, or filling in a letter or a number, but recently they have been writing me messages back!

We also worked on Boo Boo Stories this week, based on this book:

The kids had fun writing about their own boo-boo's and getting band-aids to put on their pictures!  Any project involving band-aids HAS to be fun, right?!