Pancakes, Pancakes!

Friday was an exciting day in Kindergarten.  We read Eric Carle's book Pancakes, Pancakes!  It is about a boy named Jack who wakes up and is really hungry for pancakes.  He asks his mother to make him some pancakes, but she is really busy so she tells Jack that he has to help her.  However, Jack soon discovers it is not so easy!  Ask you kindergartner what happened in the story.

As you might imagine, all this talk about pancakes made us a little bit hungry.  We decided to make pancakes for our snack time.  We did not have to do as much work as Jack did in the story, but we all had a chance to help!

   

   

Once the batter was ready, our chef Mrs. Grittner got to work cooking the pancakes on the amazing griddle she brought for us to use!

   

While Mrs. Grittner cooked, Mrs. Kurt and Mrs. Sundermeyer got us busy writing during Writer's Workshop.  Many of us wrote about making and eating pancakes.  And speaking of eating pancakes, everyone actually tried them.  We could choose to eat them plain, with syrup or strawberry jam…just like Jack did in the story!

   

   

   

   

   

   

What a fun activity!  I was super proud of everyone for trying a pancake and maybe trying something new on it, like strawberry jam!  Many thanks to Mrs. Grittner, for bringing her griddle, syrup and for her awesome cooking skills; to Mrs. Anderson for bringing us the strawberry jam; to Ms. Sampers our fabulous OT who helped out with everything and to Mrs. Sundermeyer for being here, too.  

The Tiny Seed

This past week, Mrs. Sundermeyer read us the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.  It is a great story that send the message that with perseverance and persistence, you can accomplish great things.  The tiniest seed of all in this story became to biggest, most beautiful flower. 

   

We loved hearing Mrs. Sundermeyer read us the story!

   

After reading the story, we decided to dig a little deeper into this book.  Mrs. Kurt had a copy of the book for each of us to look at.  She handed them out and then told us to take some time to look at the books closely.  What do you notice?  What do you wonder about?  Off we went!

   

   

   

We noticed many things…spaces between words, punctuation marks, high frequency words, beautiful details in the illustrations and lots more.  Then, we had to choose two or three parts of the story that we really liked the best.  We marked these spots with mini post it notes.

   

Next, we tried something new.  We learned how to do a table share.  We each took a turn at our tables and shared the parts of the book that was our favorite.  We had to be good listeners and be respectful when each table member was speaking.

   

   

When we finished our table share, we gathered back on the rug for questions and comments.  We shared what we liked about doing this and things we did not like as well.  All in all, it was fun to try a new activity and the students did a great job!