Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Kurt's Kindergarten Class!  Have a wonderful holiday!

Observing and Comparing Artifacts

On Friday, our kindergarten scientists put on their safety glasses and grabbed magnifying lenses to observe and compare the artifacts they collected on our nature walk from Thursday.  We looked at the artifacts closely and carefully.  We noticed how the artifacts were the same and how they were different.  

   

   

   

   

   

After the scientists observed and compared their artifacts, we recorded our observations in our science journals.

   

   

These scientists are doing a great job!

Nature Walk

We have been learning about trees and weather in our most recent unit of study.  Thursday morning, we bundled up and went out in the woods between Northview and Dakota Hills Middle School for a nature walk.  We observed the woods and noticed lots of things, such as nests, trees, logs, leaves, branches and animals to name a few.  We also collected artifacts from our adventure.  Enjoy the photos!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Diwali

Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, which is celebrated in the fall.  The five day festival symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance.  Ms. Kieltyka gave us a book to read on Diwali.  We were lucky enough this past Friday to have three of our students tell us about their family traditions around this celebration.  Many thanks to Leya, Shria and Svarnash for sharing their stories with us.  We loved hearing about your celebrations!

More About Trees and Leaves

We did some work this week on collaboration.  The students worked together in pairs to put together some tree puzzles.  The students needed to practice working together, problem solving and communicating with each other in order to do this successfully.  They did such a good job!

   

   

On Friday, we observed many different types of leaves.  We noticed the shapes of the leaves.  We also  compared leaves.  Compare means to find out how the leaves are the same and how they are different.    This was interesting!  When we finished our observations and comparisons, we used the leaves to make leaf rubbings.  They turned out amazing!

   

   

   

These little scientists have been very busy observing, comparing, collaborating and recording their observations.  It is so great to see them learning and having fun!

Busy Days in Kindergarten

Here are some highlights from our week in Kindergarten.  Ms. Kieltyka read us the book My Big Brother by Miriam Cohen.  We are using the illustrations in this book to learn how to sketch people when we are drawing our stories in our writing journals.

   

   

We did lots of sharing each day at the end of our Writer's Workshop time.  This week, we used to document camera to show our work and then our friends told us about their stories.  When they were done, the audience got to ask questions or make comments about their work.

   

   

In Math, we have been working on patterns.  We are learning to label and extend patterns.

   

We also painted some beautiful fall leaves to hang in our classroom.  We used water color paints for this.