Pumpkin Seeds

I saved some seeds from our class pumpkin.  The children planted two seeds.  We checked the plants out two days ago.  We observed roots and some plants starting to poke through the dirt.  We have seen a lot of growth in just a couple of days.  Here are the children looking at their plants.

Writer's Workshop

We are working on writing true stories.  The children are working on making their writing easy to read.  The children are doing much better adding spaces between words and writing more sounds when sound spelling.  Here are a few children sharing their books.

Mr. Turkey Song

We have been singing the song Mr. Turkey.  The first day we sang turkey with the letter T.  After the song, we thought of food items that begin with the letter T.  Each day since, we substitute the T with a different letter.  Today was the letter L.  Enjoy the song Mr. Lurkey.

Journal Writing

We wrote about one thing we did over the weekend.  Our focus is starting our sentence with a capital letter, putting space between words and ending our sentence with a period.

Habit 3

The last two days we have focused on habit 3, putting first things first.  We read a story about the importance of doing first things first.  The children shared jobs they can do at home and activities they can do at school before playing.  I am telling the children the work and learning must come first and then they can play.  The children wrote a sentence about what they can do before they can play.  Here are a few children sharing their first things first writing.

Adopt-A-Family

We have filled 6 boxes full of items for our family.  Mrs. Kayser, Caroline's mom, brought the class treats.

Writing Celebration

We celebrated finishing the first writing unit.  The children shared their stories with a small group.  We looked at our first writing in kindergarten and compared it to our books we just wrote.  We have grown as writers!  We ended the celebration with a toast to " best writers".