In Our Room
Updated 10/2006


Welcome to our room!  We hope you'll enjoy seeing all of the things we're doing.  Visit often as Mrs. Marker gets new pictures up with all of our new activities.

All About Me!
 
This is our student featured on the "All About Me!" bulletin board.  Can you guess who it is?
She brought in several pictures of herself and her family.  She told us all about her family.  These are her favorite things:
 book - Spongebob and Nighttime Stories
to eat - Doughnuts and Frosting, potatoes
TV show - Spongebob
sport or game - play Barbies
color - blue and yellow
she is special because - She is loved very much
she likes best about herself - her heart
when she grows up she wants to be - a big girl, teacher
she would like to visit - the Zoo, again
She also loves to color and draw and dress up

From Caterpillar to Butterfly

Mrs. Marker had lots of caterpillars on her bushes this summer and brought 4 of them to the classroom.  They didn't take long to get all curled up into cocoons.  We planned on them hatching on September 8th, 14 days after they made chrysalises, but to Mrs. Marker's surprise when we got back from Labor Day vacation, they were beautiful monarch butterflies.
   
Kindergarten Porridge Party

Our Kindergarten class along with Mrs. Nieveen's class has begun the Spanish video series to learn some Spanish words.  The first story we watch is Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Ricitos De Oro Y Los Tres Osos).  We had a great party to kick off the year.  Our class brought the toppings to put on the porridge and Mrs. Nieveen's class brought the porridge (oatmeal.)  We then made a graph to see how many students from both classes picked which toppings.  We also did a graph to see how many liked the porridge and how many did not like it.  Most everyone really like the porridge and we had a LOT of FUN!!!!  Be sure to check out our new Vocabulary link found on our Kindergarten Front Page.  It will have all of our new Spanish vocabulary words so we can practice them with you! 

 
Our toppings for our porridge!  Chocolate chips and flavored marshmallows were the most favorite in Mrs. Marker and Mrs. Nieveen's classrooms.

Apple Party
We had a great time learning about apples, graphing favorite flavors, and making apple sauce to share with Mrs. Nieveen's class.  They made apple pie.  What a great party!

   Peeling the apples with an apple peeling machine was so much fun as the peel came off in a long strip and cut the apple into thin slices.  It also took out the core where we learned all of the seeds are kept.
 



Kindergarten Learn Physics
Click the title above to read more about this activity from the Falcon web page.
   
Can you drop a bean in a wide mouth jar or a skinny mouth jar
if it's sitting on top of a ring?
   
Can you catch a coin in your hand by snapping it off of your elbow?

Can you catch a penny in a jar by flicking off the cardboard it's sitting on?

Have you every seen dancing balloons?

What happens when you don't wear your seatbelt?