December and January in Kindergarten

December and January went by really fast! We were very busy with preparing for our school Christmas play in December, but we still managed to do a lot of fun activities. 

We learned about Saint Ignatius of Loyola and made these cute crafts.

We also learned about Saint Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe. The students made a tilma with Our Lady of Guadalupe on it.

We also learned about Saint John Bosco. He is the patron saint of school children.

This is our religion center. After Christmas break, we changed the table cloth to a green table cloth and added our Jesus doll because the color for Ordinary Time is green and we learn about the life of Jesus during Ordinary Time. There are many fun religious activities for the kids to do when they visit the religion center.

One of the students' favorite activities to do at the religion center is saying a prayer for a specific intention. Each student is able to say one prayer intention each day and "light" their candle. The candles are battery operated and run on a timer. They stay lit for six hours and then they turn off.  I got them on Amazon and the kids love them.

We are currently learning about the Seven Sacraments. Here are the Seven Sacraments with titles based on our religion book (easy names for little ones); instead of Sacraments of Initiation, our book calls them "Welcoming Sacraments".

In social studies, we have been learning about making a positive change in the world. Here are some of the students ideas about how they can make a positive change in the world. 

In science, we are learning about weather patterns and the seasons. The students learned that the seasons go in a cycle and they colored pictures of each season. Then they glued the pictures into a circle.

We also learned about types of clouds. The students drew four basic cloud types.

We also made "breeze buddies" to help us see the wind blowing.

Our Music Master this month was Johann Pachelbel. We learned about him and wrote a short piece of Canon in D. We listened to music by Pachelbel throughout the month. 

Our Art Master this month was Raphael. We learned about him and wrote about him. Then we did an art project that mimicked his style of art. 

We had a great time!

November Fun in Kindergarten!

We were very busy this month! We did a lot of fun Thanksgiving projects. We talked about what we are thankful for. 

I found this cute thankful tree at Target and the students wrote things they are thankful for on the leaves and then we put the leaves on the tree.

We made thankful turkeys.

We wrote about what we are thankful for.

We colored cute turkeys.

We did a turkey directed draw.

We did a cornucopia directed draw.

We learned about Georgia O'Keeffe and made beautiful flowers.

We learned about George Gershwin and listened to his music all month.

We learned about St. Jude and made this adorable craft. 

We had so much fun!

Pumpkins! Pumpkins!

We have been learning about pumpkins over the last week so here are some of the adorable pumpkin activities we have been working on. We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and made this cute flip book. 

We explored the anatomy of a pumpkin and made a paper pumpkin craft. Then we labeled the parts of the pumpkin.

We used yarn for the pulp and real pumpkin seeds too!

We did a directed draw of a pumpkin. This one came out so cute!

We even tasted pumpkin seeds! The kids had a lot of fun learning about pumpkins. 

Salvador Dali Art

This is from last school year, but it was so fun. We learned about Salvador Dali and created a wacky bird picture to mimic Dali's style of art. I found the how to video on YouTube and the kids created their art using a black sharpie and watercolors.

 

Pentecost

Earlier this year we learned about Pentecost. The kids made cute hats to wear that day too. The hat is a tongue of fire colored orange, red, and yellow and then stapled to a bulletin board strip with children on it. The students drew tongues of fire above the kids' heads on the bulletin board strip. It was a lot of fun and the kids are SO cute!

 

Favorite Book Character Day

Hello everyone! It has been a crazy year. I have been blessed to be teaching in-person since September 1, 2020. Since our Kindergarten class was so big, we had to split the students into two groups. My co-teacher and I have a ton of fun planning awesome activities for the kids to do. These pictures are from March 2. We had Dress as Your Favorite Book Character Day. We did all kinds of fun Dr. Seuss and reading activities all week too. 

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First grade, K1, and K2 teachers had fun dressing up too!

We had a great day!