Honest Abe and General Washington!!

 

This is just a real quick post to share with you all our directed drawing of 2 of our favorite presidents!! The directions came from Suzanne over at Kindergarten Planet. I'm quite partial to Abe, being from Illinois and all!! Check them out! Aren't they just too cute?!

 

 Honest Abe!  Love the eyes!

 It looks like he's thinking about something important here!

 Very detailed, right down to the eyelashes!

 Quite the smile!

Just love these guys! 

 He's quite patriotic!  Check out the uniform!  Red, white and blue!

 So serious, our General!

 I love this one!  He looks kind of cute for George!

 Adorable!  Who knew kindergarteners were such good little artists!!

"Let's Build a Snowman"

I wanted to share some sweet little people with you tonight!  Some of our little friends went outside today and built a snowman.  It was absolutely adorable!!  Below you will see their very special snowman and a couple of my very special little ones!  Enjoy!

This is a picture of the whole snowman building group from both Miss Cain's class and mine!

What a little sweetie!!  Look at the delight on this little guys face!  Love it!

Let's kiss a snowman!!  You go girl!  (side note:  I was told the head rolled off after the kiss.  Too cute!)

"You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?"

We began our tooth fairy activities by reading "Nice Try, Tooth Fairy".  In this little book Emma writes a letter to the tooth fairy asking to have her tooth returned, so she can show it to her grandfather.  The tooth fairy attempts to return the tooth several times, each time giving Emma a tooth of another creature.  

After reading "Nice Try, Tooth Fairy" we moved on to reading "You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?"  I think this is my absolute favorite tooth fairy book.  This little fairy is hilarious sharing all about what all she has to do to be a super tooth fairy.  Even to the point of teaching children where to and not to leave their teeth.  

Next, we did our craftivity from Christie's unit on Dental Health.  Each of the little people created a tooth fairy and wrote about what they would do if they were the tooth fairy.  They turned out some real cutie pooties!!  Check them out!!  Love, love, love Christie's stuff!

A couple of group tooth fairy photo ops!!

What big teeth you have my dear!!

Fangs anyone??

A several one tooth wonders!!

"Buddy Valentine Sweet Tart Sort"

Yesterday was our February Buddy Adventure with Mr. V.'s class.   We had a lot of fun sorting, counting, graphing and solving problems.  The kids were amazing and enjoyed learned with their 3rd grade buddies.  Below are all of the pictures we took during our sweet treat adventure.  Enjoy!!

Liam and Andrew sorting their sweet treats!

 Brothers, Logan and Maddox working on their data.

 Andrew and Will checking to see what piece of data to add next.

 Jaydon and Konnor smiling for the camera while working on their bar graph.

 Jersey and Sydney deciding what information they will need to answer the questions.

 Karlye and Brynn filling in their bar graph.

 Tyler and Johnny counting their sorted sweet treats!

 Morgan and Serina laying out their sweet treats on their bar graph and then coloring in the correct number of squares.

 Me helping Laynah and Elena dividing their graph so they have more squares for their sweet treats.

 And, some more sweet friends

 Cousins - Kole and Whitney

 Aaron, Jacob and Ian

 Ashayla and Izzy

Alex and Nat

 Ellie and Lola

 Will and Zachary

 Jennifer and Avery

Lexus and Natalie

Emma and Tyler

 Hannah, Brionnah and Olivia

 And, last but not least Jeffrey and Cody!!

Walruses, and More Walruses!!

This week we've spent time finishing up our walrus study.  We have learned so many fascinating facts.  Did you know male walruses are about 12 feet long and can eat 3000 clams in one day?  Yikes!  That's a lot of clams.  The little people were also fascinated with the fact they can dive 300 feet down into the ocean.  Of course we had to measure how far that would be.  Needless to say, it took a little while and when we waves at our friends on one end they looked awfully teeny!  

Here's a picture of our information chart!!

 What we "thought" we knew prior to reading our informational text.

 Our new learning...

Things we found out about walruses that we thought we knew, but weren't quite right.

Here are some fun activities we did with "Tooth Trouble".  This first activities comes from Deanna Jump's Arctic Animal unit.  We were reviewing Text-to-Self connections.  The little people did an excellent job sharing what you should do to keep your teeth healthy.

 This one is from one of my little guys who was really struggling at the beginning of the year and still doesn't know quite all of his sounds.  But, isn't this amazing!?  I'm so super proud of him.  He did this all by himself!!

Okay, I'm almost done for the night.  These next pictures are from an idea shared by Cara Carroll on her website.  We had learned walruses are able to whistle.  So, we graphed whether or not we could whistle and then did our pictures of us as walruses.  I have to tell you my principal came in for her walk thru while we were doing this activities and one of my little boys showed how awesome kinders thinks while she was there.  Now, we had 9 people who could whistle and 11 who couldn't.  But, we had only counted the people who could on our bar graph.  This little guy piped right up (in just a blink of an eye) and said there are 11 who can't whistle.  So, me being me asked him how he figured it out so fast.  He said, "I looked at the whistlers and knew it was 9.  So, I just counted on 2 more."  Wowie, wow, wow!  Amazing!  I love it!

Okay, on to the pictures of our whistling walrus selves!