Our Classroom Jack-O-Lantern

We had fun making a classroom jack-o-lantern. Everyone stuck their hands in and felt the yucky insides...ewwww! We baked the seeds and tasted them. Some of us really like them and some didn't. Here is a picture of it. Isn't it cute!

 

Be Cool About Fire Safety!

We also got to visit Fire Station #8. Firefighter Chris Dempsey taught us some important fire safety tips. We got to look at the firetruck and hear the siren. It was really loud! Thank you Fire Station #8 for letting us visit you!

My Birthday Buddy...we got to celebrate our birthdays with a field trip!

CiCi's Pizza

On Thursday, we went on a field trip to CiCi's Pizza. We learned how to make our own pizza and then we got to eat it. YUMMY!! Thank you CiCi's Pizza for letting our Kindergarten classes visit you!

Red Ribbon Week

Dug Gap is celebrating Red Ribbon Week!

Tuesday was Hands Off Drugs Day. We wore our gloves to school to say that we are keeping our hands off drugs!


Wednesday was Put a Cap on Drugs Day.

Friday was Sock it to Drugs Day. We wore CRAZY socks to school.

In math, we are learning about shapes and how to recognize shapes in the world around us. Today in class we talked about each each shape and counted the sides they have. We played a game where we had to guess the shape on our back. Our friends traced the shape and gave us hints to help us discover what shape was hiding on our backs! Math is so much fun!

We love to exercise!

We have been learning about nutrition. We talked about how it is important to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly. We had fun on Friday by doing exercises in the room! The kids loved it!

 

Having Fun with Bus Safety

Our bus safety teacher...

Listening carefully to the bus driver. She is telling us how to be safe on the bus.

We got to get on the school bus!

 

We also got to practice how to get off the back of the bus in case there is an emergency. The kids did a great job!

 

Open House

We had a wonderful Open House night in Benson's Beehive! Thank you to all of the families that came out to visit our classroom.







We got to show off some of our work to our families.


We met up with our Kindergarten Friends too!

A Good Bunch of Apples

Last week, we studied about apples. We had fun sorting apples and making patterns with apples. We also tasted different colors of apples and made a graph of our favorite color. Our class liked the yellow apples best! On Friday, we made apple pies...YUMMY!!!

 

 

This week we have been learning to sort in math. Sorting is putting things together that are alike in some way. We had fun with a sorting relay. We sorted by shape and color. As you can see from the picture we had tons of fun!

Visitors and Volunteers in Kindergarten

On Friday morning, Tanner McCutchen, my nephew and a senior at Southeast High School came to volunteer in our classroom. Thanks Tanner for the help!

Mr. Wagnon's fourth grade class came to read to us on Friday afternoon. This is something that we plan on doing the rest of the year. Right now the fourth graders are reading to us, but give us a month or two...WE WILL BE READING TO THEM!! Thank you Mr. Wagnon's class! We had so much fun listening to you read to us.

Having Fun with Shapes

This past week, we learned about shapes and recognizing them in the world around us. We discussed different shapes each day and had fun activities that went along with each one. Here are some pictures from our fun week of shapes!

Triangle


Square


Rectangle


Oval


Circle

Diamond

Rainbow Day

To celebrating the ending of colors weeks, we had Rainbow Day. We made special Rainbow Day shirts with the kid's handprints. As you can see from the pictures, they turned out really cute!

In math, we made patterns with rainbow M&M's.

 

We ate Rainbow Goldfish.

Colors Week

For the next two weeks, we will be learning about all of the colors in the world around us. Each day we celebrate a different color by wearing it, having a special snack, sharing a toy and drawing different things in our journal that are that color. We always have so much fun during these weeks!

RED DAY

We had red jello...yummy!

 

BLUE DAY

We had blueberry muffins!

 

ORANGE DAY

We had orangesicles! :)

Who says the kids are the only ones that can enjoy snacktime??

PURPLE DAY

We drank purple grape drinks.

We drew things that are purple in our journal.

 

BLACK DAY
We had yummy Oreos!

 

WHITE DAY
We ate vanilla ice cream.

 

First Week of Kindergarten

Benson's Little Bumblebees had a buzzing first week in kindergarten! We have had a wonderful start to the school year! This week we have been talking about school rules and how things work around our classroom. We also have begun reading, math, and writing. We have been doing a lot of singing and dancing as you can see in the videos below. We have also been using our ActivBoard a lot to reinforce the things we are learning. We have all kinds of excitement going on in the beehive! I am so thrilled to be starting a brand new year with a fantastic group of kids!
My name is...




Fun with Writing!




A told B and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree
!"...We made our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees...YUMMY!