Rutgers Gardens Field Trip

These chairs presented some fun photos ops.

We had so much fun climbing trees.

We wanted to see if we all would fit on the stump.

Jeida and Quion sitting in the rain garden.

We found a caterpillar in the bamboo forest.

Thank you so much to all the parent chaperones who came with us.

We got a tour of the gardens.

Week in Review 4/15 - 4/19

This week we began our new unit on plants. I encouraged students to notice and share about their personal experiences with plants. Please allow your child to bring in seeds from fruits or vegetables they are eating if they ask to. They saved apples seeds from lunch already. Also if you see any interesting plants in your neighborhood feel free to send a picture to us by email or text.

Here some students plant Marigolds.

We also had our Mo Willems celebration or Pigeon Party. You can check out the separate post below for more pictures.

We also had our awards ceremony. Many students made honor roll including Jeida, Keilani, Tanea, Tytianna Adriana, Destony, Kaden, Chinua, Tyz'Juan, Jhanii, and Angel. Congrats to everyone!

Kristina won the kindergarten music award and Tyz'Juan won to kindergarten phys ed award.

Here we are watering our plants. We are hoping they will sprout by this coming Friday.

Mo Willems Celebration!

In kindergarten, we spend a lot of our time learning to read so it is super important to make sure that we love to read. This year we studied Mo Willems because his books are simple enough for kindergarteners to read, very easy to connect with and most importantly funny! Today we celebrated all our hard work on our author study with a Mo Willems celebration aka Pigeon Party.

We made a fun pigeon snack inspired by Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

We decorated a banner with a variety of Mo Willems characters.

Another pigeon snack.

Keilani poses with her pigeon hat.

We also reread our favorite Mo Willems books. Adriana was fresh from the snack station as you can tell.

We also had a little hot dog snack inspired by The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog.

Here's a group shot.

After all the partying was done we shared our author study with Ms. Carter's class who also studied Mo Willems.

Week in Review 4/8 - 4/12

This week we worked on retelling familiar stories. Here Chinua, Latasha, Kaden, Tytianna, and Quion retell the Three Little Pigs. Below Tyz'Juan, Angel, and ZyQuan are dressed up to play the 3 bears in Goldilocks.

During Playworks we learned about soccer and practicing dribbling and shooting.

We wrapped up our Mo Willems unit by playing with Don't Let the Pigeon Run this App to create our own pigeon stories. Next week we will be celebrating our work with Mo Willems themed publishing party. More details to come this week.

We worked on consonants vs. vowels as we talked about our bonus word an.

In math we continued to practice counting on and comparing quantities.

Week in Review 3/18-3/21 Spring/Easter Activties

Sorry that I'm posting this a bit late. We had a ton of fun last week. It would not have been possible without the super generous support of our parents. Thank you so much to everyone who donated supplies!

We dyed eggs after drawing designs on them. Unfortunately we forgot to send them home.

We made bunny ears and decorated Easter baskets so we would be ready for the hunt.

On Thursday we had a surprise in our Easter basket including a brand new book (perfect for our spring break packet!)

We worked on sorting and graphing jellybeans.

Then the moment we had all been waiting for.. the egg hunt! It was a bit chilly but we put on our coats and bunny ears and were so happy to be running around the field instead of bumping into each other in the classroom.

Each child found 7 eggs with their name and after reading a sentence or doing a math problem found in the egg they got a candy reward!

Thanks again to all the parents for helping to make this such a fun and special week!