Veterans Day Celebration

On Friday, we invited relatives of our kindergarteners that are veterans to come to our school. Our Superintendent, Dr. Z also joined us as he is a veteran of the Airforce. The purpose of our assembly was not only to honor our veterans, but also to learn from them. We had 9 veterans here representing the Marines, Army, and Airforce. They shared with us how they were respectful, responsible, safe, kind, and brave (BT Values) in the military. They had wonderful examples to share! We sang the National Anthem to them, a Thankful song to them, and then we went back to our classrooms and wrote a thank you card to give to vets at VA hospital. We are blessed to be surrounded by such brave and honorable men and women.

Adding with Candy Corn

We worked with a partner to solve addition problems using dice and candy corn. After following directions and working hard, they earned a piece of candy corn to eat! :)

Pumpkin Experiment

Here is our baking soda and vinegar experiment! Obviously a big hit with 5-6 year olds! :)

Today we compared pumpkins of different sizes. We made guesses of their height, weight, circumference, and if they would float. Boy were they surprised about the floating! Then, we checked  to see if a jack-o-lantern would float. We had a lot of fun with our discoveries. I hope they are able to share their learning with you, too!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

Thank you to Mrs. Bradley for donating the many different pumpkins to our class, including a small pumpkin for each child! We had so much fun exploring these pumpkins! We scooped out the seeds and counted them, we painted pumpkins, we wrote describing words about pumpkins, and we followed directions on a 100 chart to make a pumpkin. After all of that fun, we went outside with our small jack-o-lantern to do a little experiment. We added food coloring, baking soda, and vinegar to our pumpkin to watch it fizz and foam through the mouth of our pumpkin! They loved it! I tried to upload a video with no success, so we will have to enjoy photos for now. :)