Apples

We have been learning about apples this month. We did apple patterns with cut outs.

We got to taste different apple snacks and then we made a graph of our favorite apple snack.

We learned a song about Johnny Appleseed. I made up this song three years ago to the tune of "The Lord's Been Good To Me" from the Disney American Legends cartoon. You can search the video on YouTube to hear the tune of the song.

We did apple labeling.

We also made a Johnny Appleseed craft created by A Cupcake For the Teacher.

We had a lot of fun learning about apples. 

Kindergarten Mass

Apparently, the end of last school year was so busy that I did not publish this entry either. This was at the end of last May. 

Two weeks ago was the Kindergarten Mass. That means that the students read the welcome, first reading, responsorial psalm, petitions, and are the gift bearers. They did an awesome job!

Welcome

First Reading

Responsorial Psalm

Petitions

Gift Bearers

Where the Wild Things Are Play 2015

I just realized that I did not publish this last May. 


Each spring my Kindergarten class presents the story Where The Wild Things are as a play. This year, I changed the backdrop. For the first two years I created a paper back drop for the play, but I had so many problems with the back drop falling off the wall if the hall doors were left open that I decided to purchase a backdrop. I layered two  back drops on top of each other and taped them together. Then, all I had to do was staple the backdrop to the cork at the top of the wall. I can reuse the backdrop each year (which will cut down on a lot of prep work for me). You can see the backdrop behind my students. I made the students' costumes out of fleece so I can wash them and use them each year. I made this costumes three years ago and they still look great!

This year I decided to decorate the entrance to the school with chain vines and a Max cardboard cut out.

In addition, I decorated the doors to the hall with Wild Things. I also made giant footprints and taped them to the floor leading to the stage.

Here is a better picture of the Max cardboard cut out.

Picture Day

Today is picture day. We took this cute class photo before we took our individual pictures. It is supposed to look like a cross.

I took the picture above and made it into the shape of a cross. I think it looks so cute!

Graduation Day

The year is officially over! My students graduated yesterday. Look how cute they look. They also had graduation caps on. Congratulations Kindergarten Class of 2015!

Palm Cross

Wow time flies by at the end of the year. I have been so busy. During Holy Week, my students made palm crosses.

First, we took one palm frond and folded it like so.

We took a second palm frond and folded it in thirds.

Overlap the two pieces

Finally, we stapled the pieces together. We were going to try to weave the pieces together, but this is much easier for Kindergarten students to do. The crosses looked beautiful and the students were so proud of them.

Holy Week

We did some awesome activities for Holy Week. I found some great ideas on the blogs called Catholic Icing and Catholic Inspired. For Palm Sunday, the kids made torn paper palm branches. I drew the outline of a palm branch on black paper and the kids tore pieces of green paper and glued them onto the black paper. 

We also did this stations of the cross activity from Catholic Inspired.

We made this Communion craft when we talked about the Last Supper.

We talked about Veronica's veil and then the kids made their own version on a 4"x4" piece of muslin cloth.

On Holy Thursday, we talked about the washing of the feet and created this craft. We used our fists and fingerprints to make small feet.

We also made Resurrection Rolls on Holy Thursday.

Throughout the week, we worked on Holy Week in Fingerprints which I adapted from this activity on the Catholic Icing Blog. It turned out to be a cute keepsake for the parents.

We also made this Golgotha Scene for our classroom. I had the kids gather rocks, dirt, and sticks and then we placed them inside a clay saucer.

This is the finished project. It is still at out religion center in our classroom.

It was a busy week, but the kids learned a lot about Jesus' last few days.