Welcome to Chewandswallow, the land of extreme weather! For the past few weeks, the Kindergarten room was transformed into Chewandswallow while we learned all about weather, meteorologists, and did a book study of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. 
  While in Chewandswallow, the Kindergartners tracked the weather each day, predicted the weather like real meteorologists, performed a few science experiments and rain and wind, and learned about various tools that we use to track weather. We also learned about important aspects of weather like temperature, types of clouds, and different types of weather. 
   During our last week of our time in Chewandswallow, we had our very own NDA Daily News! Kindergartners studied the current weather conditions, recorded them, and shared them with the class in their very own weather forecast. It quickly became a class favorite activity and may be staying in the classroom a bit longer than the falling food! Enjoy a few pictures from our time in Chewandswallow below!

There is no better way to celebrate all we have learned  and the amazing readers we have become when reading Elephant and Piggie books! They have quickly become a class favorite in Kindergarten. To show how much we love them, we celebrated Elephant and Piggie day! We made puppets of some of our favorite characters and learned how to draw Elephant and Piggie from the illustrator and author himself! We also practiced our fluency, expression, and punctuation by finding the missing punctuation in sight word sentences and reading them out loud (with the help of our puppets and some silly voices!) We were also able to act out some of our favorite stories using our puppets. To round off our Elephant and Piggie day, we made hats of our favorite characters and wrote about which book is our favorite. It was a day of reading celebration, squeaky voices, and lots of laughs!

​The Kindergartners have become masters of reading. They are able to identify beginning and ending sounds like the pros that they are! In order to celebrate how far they have come, they were sent on a task. They entered the Kindergarten Hospital and needed to fix some words!
    There were CVC words all over the classroom and each one was sick and missing something important...their vowel! With their doctor coats on and their patient charts in hand, the Kindergartners spent the afternoon fixing each word and celebrating when the patient was healed!
     By the end of the experience, each Kindergartner proved to be an excellent vowel surgeon and all patients were fixed! This was a great way for the Kindergartners to practice their phonics, use their imaginations, hone their fine motor skills, and have a little bit of fun in the process!
     Look below at our slideshow of pictures to see us in action!