Mrs. Phillips' Kindergarten Pictures

from August 2010 - May 2011

     

  

  

  

Watch how our handwriting changes each month...

    August 2010                                                            September 2010

  

October 2010                                                                November 2010

  

December 2010

 

    

We had some of the big kids come read to us! It was so much fun.

  

  

  

   

Here are some of our Fall Projects!

   

  

     

October is Fire Safety month. We learned how to stay safe through a puppet show. Then, we got to enjoy a delicious "dalmatian" snack!

  

  

  

  

  

     

To Celebrate Columbus Day, we made the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria out of milk cartons!

  

  

           

Our first field trip was a huge success! KP really enjoyed visiting the Walden Farm pumpkin patch.

We took a hayride around the farm, played in the feed, navigated a hay maze and a corn maze, petted some cows and goats, learned about how a pumpkin grows, pumped water "the old fashion" way, and got to take home our very own pumpkins!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

      

We had a blast at our Kindergarten Halloween Party!

We dressed up in our costumes, trick-or-treated around the school, and played games in the classroom! We wrapped our friends up as mummies with toilet paper!

  

  

   

     

Our Thanksgiving Unit

Up first, the pilgrims...

We wrote about them after reading On the Mayflower by Kate Waters - "The pilgrim is on the Mayflower."

  

  

We read Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters and compared how she lived then to how we live today. Then we matched pictures of "Long Ago" and "Today".

Another day, we read Oh, What a Thanksgiving! by Steven Kroll. We learned how the first Thanksgiving was different from the Thanksgiving we celebrate today. One way that we showed how life was different was by making log cabins out of pretzels. Below are pictures of us hard at work and our final products!

  

  

Up next, the Native Americans...

We read about an wampanoag indian named Tapenum. The book taught us how life was different for the native americans compared to the pilgrims and us! We made many things, but our favorite was the Tee Pee made out of a tortilla and pretzel sticks. We also squished berries and used them to "paint" our Tee Pees.

  

  

  

Right before Thanksgiving Break, we did some culmination activities for our two and a half week long Thanksgiving Unit. We made a cornucopia snack with graham crackers, frosting, bugles, and Welches fruit snacks. We make fun, textured hand turkeys like we read about in Setting the Turkey's Free by W. Nikola-Lisa. And, we celebrated with a feast!

  

        

        

  

  

Here are the plump and perky turkeys we made!

"Mr. Turkey likes to play! Can you find him before he gets away?"

    

For our second field trip, we visited Traveller's Rest. We rode another bus there, toured the house and learned all about how they lived and celebrated the holiday season, wrote with quill pens using ink wells and made holiday cards, danced the Virginia Reel, and tried sillabub with ginger cookies.

  

     

        

  

  

         

Here we are on our second blue and white pep rally day!

Each class was asked to make an ornament to decorate our school Christmas Tree. Miss Phillips made the viking snowman, and we used our thumbs to make the snow!

  

  

    

We made Gingerbread houses!

Here are what they looked like in phase one and after we had completely finished. We worked really hard on them, and they turned out great! The absolutely best thing about our gingerbread houses was that they were completely edible too!

  

    

We learned about other children around the world, where they live and how they are just like us and different from us. We got to dress up like them too!

  

  

  

           

   

Mrs. Phillips let us have a snowball fight in the classroom!!!!

Don't worry, Mom & Dad, we read our sight words that were written on the snowballs/pieces of paper.

  

     

We learned about migration and hibernation. When birds migrate, they each take turns being the navigator/line leader. We migrated around the classroom!

  

   

Our parents came to visit us at school during Catholic Schools Week. We learned about groundhogs! We made a groundhog snack with chocolate cupcakes, chocolate frosting, M&Ms, marshmallows, and vanilla wafers. They were yummy!! We also learned about shadows and made a few of our own using chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.

  

  

  

    

Snowbird from WSMV Channel 4 News came to visit us during Catholic Schools Week too!!! He read us two stories about penguins. It was super fun!