Owls!

This week we learned about owls.

 We made an owl can, have, are chart.

 We used our chart to write about owls. 

 

Grab the writing sheet here!

We also dissected owl pellets this week! The kids had a great time, even though some started out very timid. By the end they were digging through it with their hands! I purchased by owl pellets from www.owlpellet.com.

I bought the mini owl pellets. You get 20 of them for $19.80. I gave one pellet to each pair of students. They worked as partners and had a lot of fun! The pellets come in the mail very quickly, and are very good. They are filled with bones!

 We used toothpicks to pull the fur apart.

We matched the bones we found to the bone chart. This helped keep the kids on track and got them very excited when they could start identifying them.

 We wrote about our findings on our observation chart. You can grab the observation chart for free here.

 

Owls are always fun and I know my kinders went home and told their parents all about the bones they found and what the owls can do, what they are, and what they EAT!

Planting an Apple Tree with Harry Kindergarten!

Way Up High in an Apple Tree - Apple Song for Kids - Children's Song by ...

Apples!!

Every year I do an apple unit. It actually makes fall seem like it's here (even when it's not quite). We learn about the colors of apples, the parts of apples, the seasons of the apple tree, foods that can be made from apples, the life cycle of an apple seed, and what our favorite kind of apple is.

Every year I do a series of activities, with pieces everywhere. This year I decided to put them all into a notebook. I'm calling it My Kindergarten Apple Notebook and it was a BIG hit with my Kinders this week.

Here are some of our activities we did:

 Homemade applesauce 

 We used a tree pattern and apple erasers to act out the song "Way Up High in the Apple Tree"

Apple Tasting and Apple Graphing

My favorite books to read during this unit are: 

I will also share some great videos that we watched about apples. 

If you like the Apple Notebook it, check it out HERE.

My Science Journal: Dinosaurs!

My Dinosaur Unit is finally out! It took me a while and I tried all of these activities out with my students. It was a big hit and each day my students would come to class and ask what dinosaur we are learning today. 

My Science Journal: Dinosaurs is science for little ones.

Dinosaurs in this unit:
1. T-Rex
2. Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus
3. Triceratops
4. Stegosaurus
5. Pterodactyl
6. Velociraptor
7. Plesiosaur

Activities Included:
1. Dino Journal: What Do You Know?
2. Vocabulary/Display Cards
3. Dino Fact cards
4. Graphic Organizers for each Dino
5. Various activities that included paleontologists, color by number, writing activities, etc.
6. Journal for little ones using describing words
7. Paper plate dinosaur templates.  

Check out the Unit: 

 

 

Paleontologist Hat FREEBIE!

New Donors Choose Project

I have a new project up for Donors Choose titled Kindergarten Techies. I am trying to get a small group set of Dragon Touch tablets for my Kinders. Right now I only have 3 iPads in my classroom and I am not allowed to add my own apps to them. I always have to have Tech come in and do it for me. I want to use the tablets throughout the year, using apps that my kids need at that time. If I have my own set of tablets for my kiddos then I can keep up with their needs. Check it out! I am hoping I can get this funded soon, because my kids are ready to go on technology!

 

These are what they tablets look like. They are small, only 7"! I can't wait to start using them in the classroom. 

Cats and Shoes

 We learned all about Pete the Cat this week. We read every book (and there is a lot of them) and learned all of the songs. I thought I would share a couple of activities as a FREEBIE this week for all of you teachers who are interested. 

The first activity we did was imagining what we could step in that would change our shoes a color. Each student got a shoe and colored it. Then they came up to me and told me the story of what they stepped in. I wrote it down and then they had to write the color word of their shoe.

 We also made Pete of course! I wanted a Pete the students could play with while we sang his songs. Grab the pattern HERE! 

The body is a folded piece of 9x12 construction paper. I drew an arch and the students cut on it. This gives him 4 legs to glue their shoes to and he can stand up! The tail was cut from the scraps of the arch. Enjoy!