OUR BUDDING ARTIST SHOWS US HOW TO DRAW SCRAT!

Here one of our classmates demonstrates how to draw the character Scrat from the movie, Ice Age.  He is quite an artist...don't you think?

THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS! NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES!

The students were more than enthusiastic to model their Native American Headdresses they made!  Each child worked hard to make sure they had a pattern in their decorative designs.  Once they found out that feathers represented bravery, they loaded them on!  CUTE!

WRITER'S WORKSHOP AUTHOR SHARES A STORY!

AUTHORS SHARE THEIR WORK IN WRITER'S WORKSHOP!

WRITER'S WORKSHOP SHARE TIME!

 

Here we have a student sharing his writing for the day.  The students love to share their hard work!  Enjoy!

HATS FROM BURTON!

Modeling our Burton Hats!  Don't they look adorable? (For those of  you that don't know, we carved pumpkins for a contest at Burton Snowboards and in return, Burton gave them each a hat!  They LOVED wearing them all day long!) 

MORE HALLOWEEN PARADE!

VIDEO OF THE HALLOWEEN PARADE!

HALLOWEEN PARADE AND PARTY!

The Not-so-Wicked Witch!

Costume Parade around HCS!

The Graveyard Cake and Mrs. Lasher the Medusa!

 

 "Have a Clean Halloween" hand sanitizer I gave to the students! 

The students waiting for the "Costume Parade".

Getting costumes on!

More costume preparations!

Star Wars in the house!

More kids ready for the parade!

The "Thinker"dressed as Transformer!

Almost ready!

Checking the classmates' costumes out!

Davey Crockett, Ninja, Butterfly, Princess, Knight in Shining Armor, and in front, Hermione.

Graveyard Cake

Frankenstein and Ghost Strawberries!

Enjoying the grapes and apple slices!

 Pumpkin Muffins and Sliced Cucumbers!

Pumpkin Strawberries too!

MATH GAMES ON THE SMARTBOARD!

 

We have been learning our new math stations on the smartboard!  I challenge the students and yes, they usually beat me!  After we play on the smartboard, we move to our math stations and students can choose to go to the game we just learned. 

WRITER'S WORKSHOP VIDEOS! BE AMAZED...BE VERY AMAZED!

Here are two video clips of today's Writer's Workshop!  The students are so engaged and are working hard to write their stories.  After today's writing session, four students got to read their work to the class and we all sat quietly and listened to their stories!  It was amazing to witness!  Man do I LOVE teaching these kids!  (TEACHERS NOTE:  In the video I refer to the time as "Reader's Workshop" but I should have said, "Writer's Workshop".)

MAKING, BAKING, AND DECORATING OUR OWN CUPCAKES!

On the Friday before Halloween...just to make sure they had an extra dose of sugar before Trick or Treating, we baked and decorated cupcakes.  These cupcakes were for our other kindergarten friends as well as special people around the school.  My friend, Sharon, owner of Nate's Cupcakes, donated all of the supplies as well as her time to help "teach" the kids how to make cupcakes.  Everyone had a ball mixing the ingredients as well as decorating the cooled cupcakes.  Check out the process and masterpieces!  YUM!

 Sharon shows them the ingredients!

 Mixing it all up!

 They even cracked eggs! There were only a couple shells in the batter!

 Now the REALLY fun part...the decorating!

 I think that's enough!

 Friends from Mrs. Johnson's class come over and choose their cupcakes!

 They make their escape with the "goods"!

 And now the chefs get to taste their masterpieces!