A New Year

The classroom is ready and I have now met my new scholars.  It is going to be a fabulous year!  My scholars and their families are wonderful.  We are going to have a great year!  Here are some pictures of our new classroom.




See everyone on Monday!

Mrs. K. gets ready for Kindergarten

It is the start of August and most teachers are getting their classrooms ready for the next school year. Here is a sneak peak into to set up of my classroom this year.

This is what the room looks like when I come to school after summer vacation!  Lots of work to do to get it ready for Meet the teacher!

These are my two sons helping me in my classroom.  Every year they help get my classroom ready and I am so thankful for the help.  Jon is the one with the orange shirt and Daniel is the one with blue. 

It is starting to take shape.  There is a lot more work to do before school starts.

Today in Kindergarten

Today we read the story The Ant and the Grasshopper.  After the story we had a choice to make - Do I want to be the grasshopper or the ant?  Then we drew a picture of what we would do if we were that character.  Mrs. K then asked us what character we chose and why we chose it. 

This afternoon we learned a new math game called grab bag addition.  We played as partners first and then we added it to our math stations. 

Today in Kindergarten 4-4-2012

We made insects and bugs we found in the book, The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle.  We added details on the insect and the setting.  Eric Carle's books are cool!

Community

We drew on the tables with markers to make a community.  A community is where you live, work and play.  We made houses, police stations, hospitals, vet clinics, fire stations, churches, Wal-mart, grocery stores and roads to connect them all.  It was fun!

Today in Kindergarten 3-30-2012

Today we led Rise and Shine.  It was so much fun to sit on the stage and get to talk in the microphone.  Click the video link below to see some of the pictures that were taken. 

Boy we have had a busy day!  Right after rise and shine we went to the garden to pull weeds!!   We also found caterpillars, butterflies, centipedes and many other creepy crawlers.  On Monday we get to plant our seeds and plants!  YEA!  Mrs. K. took lots of pictures!  Check them out below.

We watched a reading rainbow about different jobs and community helpers.  We saw horse riders, tiger cub zoo helpers and fireworks display people.  WOW! Lots of cool jobs!

We had a very fun day!

Today in Kindergarten 3-29-2012

Popsicle Winners

When a scholar has mastered all 13 snappy word lists - Mrs. K. buys them a popsicle in the cafeteria.

Here is who earned a popsicle today! 



Word Work

One scholar made a lot of words out of cubes during Daily 5. 



Play Ball

We played with a game with a partner, called play ball.  We had to add two numbers together by counting on. 



Play Ball

What a wonderful day in Kindergarten. 

Today in Kindergarten 3-28-2012

We had a very fun and busy day. 

This morning we created a poem as a class and then we got to illustrate it. 

Dinosaur Trouble
By Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s Kindergarten Class

There once was a dinosaur
Who was always in trouble
He went to the store,

 Karate chopped the door,
And his mom found him in a bubble.

She took him to the shore
And his teeth popped the bubble.
He let out a loud roar,
 then he roared some more,
And his mom said he was in trouble.

We saw roots come out of our seeds and our seeds are changing colors.

We made the flowers and put detail on it.  We had to put on leaves, stems, seed pods, and petals.  Then Mrs. K. put glitter on our seed pod.  The table bosses pretended to be bees and they moved the pollen from one flower to the next.  Cross pollination is soooo cool!