Gingerbread Houses

Our Class Makes "Sweet" Houses

On Friday, our class celebrated Fun Friday by revisiting our gingerbread stories by making some very cool houses. There was frosting and candy flying everywhere. The students came up with some great ideas and Mrs. Scott's class joined in our fun. The two classes worked so well together and we finished by creating a "Group Plan" large gingerbread house. The students were given directions that would allow for sharing and kindness and it went very well.

Owl Presentation

Three Live Owls Visit Our Library

As a wonderful way to end our owl unit, our guest from Outreach For Earth Stewardship, Craig Newman, presented our class with quite a treat. Craig brought three owls from their aviary; An Eastern Screech owl, a Grey owl, and a Barred owl. The students were fascinated and asked lots of super questions. We got to see how the owls hide from their predators using bark from trees and why their wings are so quiet when they fly. The students were able to pass around owl wings and talons and got to see the owls spread their wings, (the Grey owl even took flight around Craig).

Discovery With Owls

Our Students Discover What Owls Eat
As an incredible extension to our owl unit, the students were able to dissect owl pellets. Owl pellets are the fur and bones that the owl spits out after digestion. The students use tweezers to carefully pull apart the pellets to find out what their owl had eaten. Charts with the bones of rodents, voles, moles, and small birds were handed out as well as a paper showing a full skeleton of a vole. By careful scientific observations, the students matched their bones to find out what type of bone it was and what animal it belonged to. I think we have many budding scientists for our future generation. We were also able to pair the class with Mrs. Scott's class and the students did very well being able to work with students that they may not always see.

Group Cave

Our Class Creates A Bear Cave
An afternoon turned into painting fun with all the students gathered around a huge box and painting away. We used brown and black paint for the cave and added white and green paint for the sides, showing snow and some green foliage. The students had a blast and they followed excellent kindness and patience with this group project!!

End Of The Year Fun

Our Class Finishes 2015 With Holiday Fun

In a wonderful end to the year, the class was remarkable with all of their practices and their final culminating event, a holiday concert. The crowd enjoyed a number of songs, a poem, and even sigh language to "Jingle Bells". The kindergarten students were also visited by the man in red, Santa Claus. We enjoyed a sleigh ride around the school and they all were presented with stockings that they had created, filled by Santa. It has been a treat to experience the growth in our students and I look forward to a fun filled and engaging 2016.