It's Summer!

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I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and the (finally) warm and HOT weather!!

So, I have a little update - I am changing school districts - which explains the blog update/change.  All the resources will still be here, but I will be posting from a new standpoint, even though I am still teaching K!

Feel free to continue to contact me, as I am so happy to continue to teach K and so proud of my four years of K's that I will surely miss!

Thanks!!

It's finally Spring!! That means it is time to learn about clouds and Spring weather!

Last week, we made cloud finders (get your own here) to help us learn about stratus, cirrus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds!

Then, we took a little journey outside and searched for these clouds! It was a pretty clear day, but we did find some great examples. 

After the activity, the kids drew and wrote about the the clouds that we saw.  Some other activities included the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs story, The Little Cloud by Eric Carle and cotton ball project, and the story of Cloudette. 

Have fun learning about clouds!

In like out a lion and out like a lamb...

So this winter has been rough. Real rough. And we have finally made it to March...now we're looking forward to Spring on Thursday...but the weather still hasn't changed much.  Let's hope it does because last week we talked about the old adage, "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb."

This saying can be difficult for kindergarteners to grasp so we take about two week exploring it through writing.

  

This year, we made it into more of a shared research project (to align to the Common Core Standards).

   

We watched video, read books, and looked up facts.  Two of my little guys even did some safe computer research on their own and wrote me a few sentences!

Not only have we explored lions and lambs, but now we know about similes as well! Yahoo! Now if spring would actually come!!