Spring Break in the Midwest!

at the top of the Willis Tower

Sky Deck Chicago! I'm scared out of my mind!!!

My mom and me on Navy Pier

Hey Ms. Miller! Let's take a picture!

"I love my dad! I bet I will see him again!"

"Ms. Miller likes a rainbow!"

"Hey Ms. Miller! Let's take a picture just you and me!"

"Let's put bugs and frogs on our head and pretend we are scared and you take our picture!"

Weighing, Sorting, and Subtracting...oh my!

Who has the heavier side? Can you draw a picture to match what you see?

Once the jelly beans were sorted, students had to graph their results and then answer questions about their bag of jelly beans (most, least, favorite color, and complete number sentences using their results).

Introducing subtraction in kindergarten using dice

Santa Claus in Kindergarten?

No it's not Santa! We just had cupcakes for snack! :-)

You brought what for show and tell???????

You know you live in Wyoming cattle ranching country when this comes for show and tell!  Yup! You guessed it! It's a bone from a cow.  Hadn't seen that one for show and tell before!  LOL!

2 and 3 Dimensional Shapes with Marshmallows

 In math centers, students in KM built two and three dimensional shapes out of marshmallows.  Once they had created 5 2D shapes, they made 4 3D shapes.  It was really a light bulb moment for some students and allowed them to finally understand the difference between 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes. 

Pie the Principal!

 For every 100 minutes kindergarten students earned a ticket.  Here are our two lucky students throwing pies at our principal!  What a fun mess! 

Our principal and music teacher after the last pie was thrown!

Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character Day!

 This is what happens when 5 kindergarten teachers get creative with their costumes!  I decided to dress up like Emily Elizabeth from the Clifford books.  Good thing I just happened to have a big red dog!

Green Eggs and Ham for Dr. Seuss' Birthday!

On March 1st, we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday with our 4th grade buddies.  We tried Green Eggs and Ham and listened to our 4th grade buddies read us Dr. Seuss books!

How Can I Make It Sink?

After we had tested 15 objects to determine which would sink and which would float, I gave the students each a piece of wood.  They discovered that when they put the wood in the water, it would sink.  I challenged the students to figure out how to make it sink.  I gave each table a pile of paperclips and rubber bands.  The students in KM were very creative in their attempts to make the wood sink.  Once the first student figured out that in order to make it sink they would have to wrap a rubber band around the wood and tuck lots of paper clips underneath, the other students quickly caught on.