Bear Brag Award

Bear Brag award for the week of September 23 went to

Akshita and Austin.

Good-Bye Gracie

Our good friend Gracie moved to New Jersey today.

We are really going to miss her.

 

Read with a Partner

This week in Reading Workshop we

introduced reading with a partner.

 

 Here Caison is demonstrating how to find a partner.

 

Once you find your partner you sit EEKK, elbow elbow knee knee.

 

 

Reading with a friend is so much fun. 

You can learn so much from each other.

Skittle Space

Today we used Skittles to put space between words.

They loved putting down their skittle and then

writing their next word in their sentence.

 

Parachute Fun in PE

Today the students got to play games

with the parachute in PE.

I walked by and they were having so much fun,

I had to run and get my camera.

Library Day

Friday is our Library Day. 

We have been going every week to learn all the ins and outs of the library, then today we finally got to check out a Library Book.

 

 

Bear Brag Award

The Bear Brag Award of the week of September 16 went to

Amrita and Preston.

Constitution Day

Today is Constitution Day.

We read the book We the Kids

 

and then wrote our own Constitution for our class.

 

We made patriotic hats and made flags using our hands while learning about The Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Good Fit Reading

Are my shoes a good fit for Gracie? 

Are Gracie's shoes a good fit for me? 

NOOOOO!

So pick a book that is a good fit for you.

 

The students thought this was a funny lesson.

 

 

We learned how to pick good fit books

to read during Reading Workshop.

 

 We are also working on reading stamina and how to become an independent reader.



Bear Brag Students

Joshua and Sydney get the 

Bear Brag Award for the

week of September 9.

 

Our First Assembly

Today the students attended their first School Wide Assembly, Rachael's Challenge

 

Rachael Scott was a young girl who was killed in the Columbine Shootings.  She had a journal that was discovered about spreading kindness to everyone.

 

Bear Creeks adopts the Rachael's Challenge.  We work at being kind to others and catching others being kind in order to start a chain reaction of kindness.

 

 Above:  SO CUTE!

BELOW:  SO SILLY!

 

Five Senses

In science we are learning about our Five Senses.

We used Gummy Life Savers to do an experiment

 When the students first got the life saver it was wrapped in foil.  We talked about what senses we could use to figure

out what was in the foil.

 The we unwrapped it and

used smell,

 Taste

 Touch

 Sight

 and hearing

 before we finally ate it.

 

As we discovered our five senses we developed this chart.

Color Words

This week while working on reading our color words we read two very fun books and did activities to go with each.  One was Elmer the Elephant.  Elmer is a very colorful unique elephant.  The kids enjoyed him and his adventures.

 

 

The other book was Pete the Cat.  If you have not read Pete the Cat you need to look for it and read it to you children.  It is a very whimsical fun book about the adventures of a very fun loving cat.

 

Week 2 Fun

We had such a great week.

The focus right now is learning the Kindergarten routine.

 

We started Reading Workshop.

The students self select their book and read independently. 

We introduced the reading strategy EAGLE Eye.  They look at the pictures to figure out words.  They also just read the pictures to comprehend the story. Reading the pictures is the beginning stages to reading.

 

 Are these pictures of them reading not adorable.

 They are doing a great job and working independently on a project.

But what they really want to do is projects on the IPads.  So cute!!!

Here they are exploring an alphabet app. 



 

This week in math we worked on measurement.  We measured all week to discover longer and shorter.

 

Here we traced our foot, measured it, wrote how many cubes long it is then lined them up from shortest to longest.

 

Our foot length ranged from 9 cubes long to 13 cubes long.

Our Bear Brag Award recipients this week were Maren and Connor.