C is for Cookie

K-1 students did a great job of getting back into the swing of things at school! We have gotten many things accomplished today.

We learned about our new letter of the week - Cc. The cookie monster helped us!

And then we created our own cookie monsters!

This afternoon we took advantage of the dry weather and headed outside to check out our tree. The students each collected a leaf and we did leaf rubbings in our tree journals.

Travels with Pierre

Today we learned more about trees.  We learned about the different parts of a tree (roots, trunk, branches, leaves) and added those words to our Word Wall.  We learned that leaves have veins and compared the job of those veins to the veins in our bodies!

Click HERE to see the slides that we watched about Pierre the acorn!

Trees

We are beginning our first science investigation in Kindergarten - Trees. Throughout this unit students will learn to observe and describe properties of trees and leaves in the schoolyard, compare similarities and differences of trees, and observe trees throughout the school year for changes that come with the different seasons.
Yesterday, we completed the first two steps to our KWL chart (see below). We will complete the third step at the end of our investigation. Click on the chart to enlarge it.