Science Week of May 20th
This week, students will be exploring the outdoors and determining the characteristics in nonliving and living items on a nature walk!
Ms. Lane, Science/Social Studies, Kindergarten
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Science Week of May 13th
This week, we are learning about butterflies. We have caterpillars starting to create their chrysalis and eventually hatch. Students will learn about the life cycle of the butterfly, complete a daily observation of our butterflies state, discover different butterfly wing patterns, and identify parts of a butterfly.
Science Week of May 6th
This week, we are continuing to work on our end of the year research project! Last week, we did a class example last week on tigers and students chose their rainforest animal (anaconda, capybara, river otter, or sloth). This week, students will learn about their rainforest animal and create their project on what they learned.
Science Week of April 29th
As we are approaching the end of the year, we are starting to work on our research project! For our research projects, students will have the opportunity to learn about a rainforest animal in class and write about what they learned. This week, we will introduce our project by doing a class example focusing on one animal.
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.
Science 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 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 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 Wampoanog 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 with classroom discussions and forming a kindergarten turkey with their feathers representing what they are grateful for.