Monday, April 4, 2011

Worms are Here!

     Before leaving for Spring Break, we read the story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We read two different versions and compared how they were alike and different.  Both versions were very similar.  Our favorite activity was to act out the story.  We have some terrific actors in our class!


      Our first day back from a wonderful Spring Break, we wrote about our favorite animal for 4th quarter writing sample.  The students wrote about dogs, zebras, komodo dragons and many other animals. They were careful to use spaces between words, kindergarten spelling, punctuation at the end of the sentence and capital letters at the beginning of the sentence.

     We finished our study of fish before the break.  Today we returned to find worms waiting for us.  We started a KWL chart with things that we already know about worms.  We read a non-fiction book to learn facts about worms.  Then, the most fun of all, we all were able to dig a red worm out of the dirt, take and observe how the worm looked and moved.  For kindergarten kids, how cool is that?