Wacky Wednesday

Wacky Wednesday is a book by Theo. LeSeig (aka Dr. Seuss) with pictures by George Booth. The concept of the book is that a boy wakes up and realizes that his whole town has gone "wacky". Birds are chasing cats, shoes show up everywhere but on people's feet, and misspellings abound. Each picture has an increasing number of wacky things, beginning with one shoe on the wall, and ending with twenty wacky things.

On Wednesday, everybody in kindergarten got wacky, including the Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Fowler, Miss Patsel, Mrs. Larremore!

Go Away Big Green Monster

We read the book Go Away Big Green Monster and made a monster glyph.

The color of the monster = favorite color
The number of hairs = how old you are
The color of your ears
Blue = you do not like scary movies
Green = you do like scary movies
The color of your mouth
red = you like Go Away Big Green Monster the best
pink = you like There is a Nightmare in My Closet the best

m & m Math

We estimated how many m & m's we could grab in a handful. Then we grabbed a handful and counted how many we really had.



We made and labeled m & m patterns.

This week, we learned about fair shares and fractions. We learned that to make a fair share, everyone has to have the same amount. We made fair shares with our m & m's.





We read The M & M Counting Book and made our own book of 100 m & m's. We made sets of 10 and added 10 sets of 10 together to make 100 m & m's.

Storyteller: Toni Simmons

This week, we had a special treat. Storyteller, Toni Simmons, visited us for a time of traditional oral storytelling. She used rhythms, songs, and audience participation, to pull us into her stories and to take us to different places around the world.





You can learn more about Toni Simmons and purchase her products at Toni Simmons.

Making Muffins

This week we celebrated the letter M. In honor of letter M, we read If You Give a Moose a Muffin and we made muffins. We learned about cumulative stories. We talked with partners about the events in the story and how they built on one another. Then we charted what we talked about. Finally, we made muffins and ate them! Yum, Yum!!

Cleaning Pennies Experiment

Go to VoiceThread and view a voice recording and slide show of our cleaning pennies experiment. Go to VoiceThread.