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Ms. Hansen, Science/Social Studies, Kindergarten

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Science Week of April 22nd

This week is all about Earth Week! (Can I get a wahoo?) We will be learning how we can celebrate Earth Week every week and find ways we can help the planet. This will include making utensil bags! Plastic can take up to 500 years to fully decompose! Yikes! Feel free to give your students a reusable fork or a spoon on Tuesday to place into their utensil bag. 


As a fun treat, we will be making Earth Week Pudding! If you’re unsure how to make it, it’s quite simple. You start with the gravel (crushed oreos), add some soil (chocolate pudding), add in a few worms (gummy worms), and finish with some more gravel (more crushed oreos). Voila! You have a tasty treat! 


If you would like to provide some of these ingredients for our class we would greatly appreciate it! Here is a sign-up genius. Please have your student bring in the item by Thursday, April 25th, so we can purchase any missing items if necessary.

Social Studies Week of April 15th

For this week in social studies, we will be discussing the life cycle of humans. How we are babies and then eventually grow to adults. To start the lesson off, we will begin by having a ‘guess the baby’ game, where students will guess which student matches the baby picture. They will then discuss how they have changed as babies and draw a picture of themselves in the past in their ‘How I Grow and Change’ book! We will continue to add pages in our books as children, teens, adults, and as elderly people. While we discuss how we change or how we think we will change, we will practice using past, present, and future tense verbs.

Science Week of April 8th

We will begin this week with a quick lesson about eclipses and then we will get to see the solar eclipse from our playground! Don’t worry, families! We will have eclipse glasses and will discuss the importance of wearing them while looking at the sun. Feel free to talk to your kindergartener about that at home as well! 

For the rest of the week, students will be preparing for their research project at the end of the year, by practicing informational writing. To start, students will write step by step instructions on how to blow bubbles. We will do this as a class and then they will choose their own topic to describe the steps (how to paint nails, how to make a sandwich, etc).

Social Studies Week of March 18th

With our unexpected shortened week, we will be starting this week where we left off last week with… consumers and producers! At the end of the week, we will practice what we learned by giving students consumer and producer jobs in our classroom shopping center!

Social Studies Week of March 11th

This week, we will be introducing economics! You might be thinking “wow! That’s so cool! How are you going to do that in kindergarten?” Well, we’re so glad you asked! We will first start by reviewing what are needs and wants. Then, we will dive into how people purchase items (with money) and take a closer look on how we should spend our money (be mindful of our needs before our wants). Then, things get crazy. We introduce what are goods and services and make puppets to pretend to purchase a good or service! Next week, we will continue with some more economic excitement!

Science Week of February 26th

In Science this week, we will be exploring how humans change their environment to meet their needs. We will determine what humans (living things) need to survive and then take a look at changes made by humans to meet those needs.

Science Week of February 20th

This week, we are starting a new 2 week unit in Science. We will be exploring how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. To do this, we will be taking a deep dive into different animals (and then humans) to see how they change their specific environment.

Social Studies Week of February 12th

This week in social studies, we will continue to learn about the lives of Black men and women in history. This week, we will learn about Barack Obama, Elijah McCoy, and explore how the biscuit has been transformed through the ages through the work of Black chefs and inventors! 

Social Studies Week of February 5th

This week in social studies students will explore the lives of Black men and women in history. A few of the people we will be introducing are Ruby Bridges, Clementine Hunter, Harriet Tubman, and the HBCU drumline.

Science Week of January 22nd

This week in science, we will be exploring how the Sun heats up the Earth and how this affects animal habitats. To support our understanding, we will doing experiments to test how the Sun heats things up and learning about how the Sun affects three different animal habitats.

Social Studies Week of January 17th

Last Friday, we introduced Martin Luther King Jr. and why his birthday is celebrated every year by creating a kindergarten peace tree! This week, we will continue the discussion on race, discrimination, and peace by taking a closer look at the life of Martin Luther King Jr, Katherine Hopson, and Rosa Parks.

Social Studies Week of January 8th

As it is the start of the New Year, we will be exploring how people celebrate the New Year all over the world! Specifically, we will be learning about Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Rosh Hashanah, and Diwali. 


On Friday, we will introduce Martin Luther King Jr and discuss how he changed history. We will continue to discuss the life of Martin Luther King Jr the following week.

Social Studies Week of December 4th

We are continuing our unit about homes around the world. We will be discussing homes around the world and why homes are important. We will be exploring this through various texts and our own writing.

Social Studies Week of November 27th

For this social studies unit, we will be discussing homes around the world and why homes are important. We will be exploring this through various texts and our own writing.

Social Studies Week of November 13th

This week in social studies, students will explore what life was like for the Wampanoag people and settlers when they celebrated what is now known as the first Thanksgiving Feast. We will do this by creating diaries, exploring the food they ate, and comparing it to the food we eat on this Holiday. Lastly, students will continue to uncover gratitude through classroom discussions and forming a kindergarten turkey with their feathers representing what they are grateful for.