Monday, February 13, 2012

100's Day

Our 100th day of Kindergarten fell on last Friday! Man was I tired Friday night! We had a lot of fun parading around the building showing everyone our 100 poster. We each were asked to create a poster at home of a 100 somethings. Most of us chose to do a poster with stamps and stickers.


Our first activity we did was guest which cup held 100 beans. We graphed our predictions. 9 of us thought cup a had 100, 1 thought cub b, and no one thought cup c. Miss Becki started with cup b. We counted as a group and found it had 99 beans. Miss Becki then asked us to predicted by looking at the amount cup b had which one had 100 beans. We then said cup C. We decided we would trick our parents at pick up!

Another activity we had a lot of fun doing was making a necklace with 100 Fruit Loops. We all came up with different ways to go this. Some of us decided we would just start putting the cereal onto the next lace and would count them as we went while others of us decided to count out groups of 10. We knew we needed 10 different groups. A few of us decided it would look great if we did a pattern.

At 10:45 we started our parade. We walked all the way down to the cafeteria and then we hopped into an elevator and went up to the 3rd floor. We wanted to see if we could spy someones dad that works up there! As we paraded around we counted to 100 by 10's and 1's. When we got back into the classroom we even counted up by 5's.

Once we were back in the classroom we did 100 different exercises. After we were down we cooled down by thinking about what it would look like if we were 100 years old. We know Miss Becki is 106 years old so we thought we had a good idea what this might look like. However she told us she looks so young because she hangs out with us and we keep her young. So we took a look at pictures of people around the world who were 100. We were surprised to see 100 year old people running marathons and playing tennis. (I will upload everyones writing later and once the book is created I will hang it up for all to see).



Because Kindergarteners are very caring, loving, and thankful we came up with 100 things we were thankful for. The top responses were our family members.









Out last on going activity we did for 100's day was writing 100 different words. We know a lot and our inventive spelling is getting better each day. I was VERY proud of all their hard work!

Microscope

For the past three weeks we have been working with microscopes in our science lab! The first day in the lab we investigated the different types of microscopes we have and the different slides we have. We also started to fill out a KWL. A lot of us do not know much about a microscope except that some of our parents use them. We have a lot of questions that we want to learn about them before the unit is over. This Wednesday we will finish up and fill in all the information we have learned about them.






One activity that we did with them was very interesting. Miss Becki asked us to put on our mad scientist caps on and look into the microscopes. After showing us how to get more or less light and different lens we were able to look at three different types of cells. We took time while looking at the cells and drew what we saw. We could see the different colors and the different shapes the items were in the cell.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Tricky Teens

Tricky teens-

One of the hardest group of numbers for us to get through is the tricky teens. When counting from 0 to 20 some of us skip 15. When trying to just recall the number from looking at flashcards we mix up the numbers for EX we say 21 for 12. This song should help us remember!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5eaBjKI8xQ

ICT and Technology

http://earlyyearsliteracymath.wikispaces.com/file/view/ICT+and+the+greatest+technology+-+a+teacher+mind.+Ann+H.pdf

Found this article while looking through other blogs. Tought it was interesting.

First blog

Welcome to Miss Becki's Kinders blog. This is my first time blogging. I have used many bloggers ideas for things I have used in the classroom. This is part of an assignment I am doing for one of my graduate classes. I thought this would be another great way for my families to see what we are doing in Kindergarten! As well as make our friends who could not join us for school feel like they were here! Enjoy!