Dodge Nature Center

We had a great day today.  Our field trip to Dodge Nature Center was amazing.  Many thanks to our chaperones Jim Newton, Paula Ruppert, Jamie Samuelson and Jodi Radermacher for making this trip even better.  Enjoy some fun photos from our trip!

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

   

  

We saw lots of pretty cool animals and learned even more about farms.  My favorite story from the day was when one of the guides asked the kids what baby pigs were called and one of our students replied, "pork chops"!  See why I love this job??

Our Last Friday in Kindergarten

Our day started with a visit from Mrs. Carl.  She stopped by to thank us for the blanket we made for her when she had her recent knee surgery.  She really likes it and we felt really good doing something nice for someone else.

Mrs. Young stopped in during writing time.  Mrs. Young is an Occupational Therapist who works at Northview.  She helps our students with lots of things...like how to hold pencils properly, and how to strengthen our fine motor muscles.  She has been awesome helping us during Writing Workshop all year, too.

We worked on some center activities during Math.

  

Since it was finally nice outside, we went out to the playground after lunch for some free choice recess time and to take some class photos!

  

   

   

 

 

                                             

  

Good Bye, Pip and Squeak!

Well, today was our last day with our chicks Pip and Squeak.  We really liked having them in our classroom and we also learned a lot about chicks and chickens.  It is amazing how quickly they grow and change, even in just one week.  We will get to see lots of chickens and other animals on Monday at the farm at Dodge Nature Center.

  

  

This morning, Mrs. Kurt and Mrs. Radermacher had us each paint ten yellow circles on a large piece of white paper.  We were curious why we were doing this...

  

After lunch when the paint was dry, we learned why we did this.  We made the circles in to chicks!

Aren't they cute??

  

Hope to see everyone at the school carnival tomorrow night.

More Farm Fun

We are really having fun getting to know our chicks.  They are lots of fun and we are also learning lots about them.  It takes 21 days for eggs to hatch.  Sometimes hens sit on the eggs in the nest but sometimes eggs are placed in incubators until they hatch.  Incubators need to be kept at 100 degrees to keep the eggs warm.  We learned more about chickens by participating in an interactive SMARTBoard activity on chickens last Friday.

Of course our favorite time with Pip and Squeak is when we get them out of their box and play with them...

  

  

Although we do have baby chicks in our classroom, we are learning about other farm animals as well.  We have been busy reading and writing about chickens, pigs, sheep and cows.  We have also made these animals and hung them in our classroom and out in the hallway.  They look great!

  

Thanks to Logan Schmitt and his family for taking care of our chicks over this holiday weekend!  I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend.  Only seven more school days left of this year...hard to believe it has gone by so fast!