Archive | December 2013

Great Human Body Game!

Please check out this fun site at home that Karin, our technology teacher, introduced the class to! This site also has many other learning games to choose from (at the home page click on kindergarten). I would also recommend the math games: “Color by numbers”, “Days of the Week”, “Math Story”, “Missing Number.” Reading Games: “Phonic sound”, “Word Building”, and “word Scramble.”

Another Fun game to check out under “puzzles” is the game “US MAP.” We have been looking at the US map quite a bit with so many winter holiday cards coming in from around the country!

Just click on the words “fun site” in the first sentence of this post to link to the webpage. Enjoy!

Our Human Bodies!

Can you recognize who some of these kindergarteners are?? More to come! And this week we will begin adding the body systems, starting with the skeletons we have been working on and the lungs!

 

Winter Holiday Card Exchange

Kindergarten is participating in an international winter holiday card exchange! Each participating class was given the name and address of 31 other classrooms from around the world. The theme for the cards this year was mittens, scarfs, and hats. Our kindergarten created snowman wearing winter gear using the Kid Pix program during a visit to the computer lab. We then mounted our pictures on colorful paper and included a message letting others know a little bit about our class.

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Our holiday cards went out last week, and this week we already received cards from classrooms in PA, Las Vegas Nevada, Utah, and Tennessee!

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We have a display in the hallway by second grade of the United States and another map of the world!  As our cards arrive, we will find the state that each letter comes from and attach the card with a string. Other grades in our school are participating to, so we are excited to watch this bulletin board grow!

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Them Dancing Bones!

As part of our Human Body Unit we are learning all about our skeleton! Did you know there are 206 bones in the human body?? Do you know where the biggest bone in your body is? How about the smallest?? Today we explored many of the bones that make up the skeleton and looked at a large life-sized plaster skeleton in the classroom!  We even learned how to boogie to a skeleton dance! I have attached the video from YouTube below so students may share this song with you.

As we identified various bones on the skeleton, we tried to see if we could feel those bones on our own bodies as well. Students also had many great questions- What can you see if you look into the “hole” in someone’s ear? Where does the hole go? We had some great guesses! Including, “your brain,” “your eyes,” and “the other ear.”  This led to another great question, “What is ear wax? and what is it for?”  Student guesses included, “to help you hear,” “to keep germs out” and “ear wax is from eating too many potatoes!” This in turn started a discussion about where the “holes” in your nose go, (and what are boogers anyways??) “Boogers keep water from going up your nose when you swim!” said another student with excitement. Where does the “hole of your mouth” go to?  Did you know there is hair in your nose???  And look! There is hair on our arms too!

Some students shared their experiences with having x-rays taken and many children shared seeing what their teeth looked like in X-rays from the dentist office. If students have X-rays at home they would like to bring in and share, they are welcome to! We would love to see them!

So keep asking great questions K and we will keep exploring to find the answers!! Stay tuned for more to come!