First Week in May: Visiting Artist Christina Watka!

Science: Learning about what plants need!  Planting bean seeds!

Getting his plant tag ready.

Name and date

                            Filling the pot with soil.

 

Prepping the soil for two bean seeds.

All in a little hot house!

IPads at Choice Time are offered on a rotation.

Tic Tac Toe

The PCPA Playground committee put this fence in to help keep the soccer ball up onto hill!

Team Cornell classroom bulletin board.

Writing: A letter to his mother for Mother's Day!

Practicing mechanics: spacing and punctuation.

The children are doing much better with formation and spacing!  Producing his very best letter writing for his mom!  Working hard!

Morning Meeting Share

The nurses at the hospital created a binder of photos of her stuffy being cared for just like she was!

The children enjoyed this share very much!

Handwriting: Capital H and K

Wet K

Capital H formation practice. 

Capital K formation practice.

Watch for this story to come home in the children's reading journal.

Practicing reading the new science story.

Visiting Artist: Christina Watka!

Sharing with us what she does as an artist!

Explaining the project the children will participate in.

An example of what the children can make.

On day one they practiced drawing fish.

Christina had them add color.

She encouraged creativity!

Writing: Working hard on her Mother's Day letter.

Day two, selecting materials.

Christina sharing ideas.

Special thanks to Ally Nye for volunteering during our time with our Visiting Artist!

Adding tails to their fish if they wish!

Many fun materials to work with to create their fish!

Our school of fish swimming all together!

The fish are hung on display in the breezeway 

where they can catch the light!

We can walk by them daily as we head to Allied Arts!

Christina hung these for the children!

Thank you to the PCPA for sponsoring our Visiting Artist!  

We really enjoyed having Christina into our classroom! ♥️

Observing plant growth!

Zinnias and bean plants!

Spanish Work from Mrs. Chase.

Phonics work: Digraph sort.

Math: Skip counting by 2s.  Practicing writing the numbers.

Kindergarten Goal: Skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s!

Writing/Art: Preparing another treat for mom for Mother's Day.  Creating a Mother's Day card.

Adding creativity

 We are working hard on some Mother's Day treats!

The highlight of the week was definitely our 

Visiting Artist Christina Watka and her fish project!

Thank you PCPA!