Kindergartners walked into school Thursday and discovered that the room had been transformed into the Serengeti! With zebras, giraffes, elephants, and many more African animals around the room, we decided to go on a Shape Safari!
    On our safari, we searched high and low for all kinds of animals. When we found an animal, we recorded the number on the picture and then flipped the picture over to reveal a shape!
     We then recorded our findings in our field journals and circled all the corners in the shape. It was such a busy and fun way to celebrate our learning and test our 2D shape knowledge. Check out some pictures below to see our safari in action along with some photos with our giraffe visitor, Twiga!

This past week, the Kindergartners have been learning all about a fall favorite fruit...apples! We have been using descriptive words and using our 5 sense to investigate them. One day, we jumped into practicing our reading skills while identifying all of the different parts of an apple! 
  We then transferred our labeling skills to label Miss Keenan! We labeled all the parts of her face and she was covered in Post-it labels by the end of the lesson! This showed the Kindergartners how man things there are that they can label in their writing during Writer's Workshop (and the importance of adding details to our pictures!)
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Kindergartners walked into school this past Wednesday to see a big surprise waiting for them! That morning, everyone's favorite gym teacher installed our brand new Clevertouch board, which is an interactive board. The Kindergartners (and their teacher!) are having so much fun learning about everything that it can do and how it can help us learn even more. We have been using it to practice writing letters, sorting objects, identifying beginning sounds, and and even for GoNoodle!

While the weather is still gorgeous, the Kindergartners like to take a bit of time after our Wednesday mass to play outside. What a great way to get to know our new classmates and get some fresh air!

Welcome Kindergarten 2018-19 families!
    With our new school year up and starting, welcome to our class website!
     This website is a place that you where you can check in on what we are doing in school, see what important things are coming up at NDA and in Kindergarten, and it is a place to see many photos of Kindergarten in action. I usually update our website once a week, with a highlight of something we did. 
​      I look forward to an amazing year of Kindergarten!