Ms. Caudill’s Kinder-Blog!

Last week and this coming week we have learned about our bodies, inside and out! We looked at the outside of our bodies with mirrors. We have talked about all of the body parts we can see and touch like our heads, shoulders, knees and toes! Wow, that sounds like a song! We learned a song about our bodies. We sing it to the tune of "Three Blind Mice" it is called "Body Parts"! It goes like this:

Body parts, body parts,

We've got more than a few

Inside, outside

Even some you never knew!

Noses smell, Eyes see,

Healthy hearts beat,

Ears hear, lungs breathe

And all these are part of me!

And all these are part of me!

Here we are listening to our heart! Our heart is a muscle. It is the size of our fist. It pumps our blood throughout our body. We cannot see it but we can feel it when we put our hand on our chest and we can hear it with an instrument called a stethoscope. We enjoyed listening to our heart beat!

We had a GREAT VALENTINE'S DAY in between all of the snow days! The first thing we did was make our Valentine bags. They were very cute!

The next thing we did was deliver our valentines to our Valentines! We did a GREAT job recognizing our friends and reading their names. We delivered all of the Valentines by ourselves!

Then the REAL fun started! We made our own sundaes! Boy were they YUMMY! After we ate our sundaes we went back to class to open and read our special Valentines! We had a great time together!

We WILL hold our Valentine's Day party AS SCHEDULED, tomorrow, Friday, February 12th! We will begin the festivities at 1:15. Parents are welcome to attend as always. If you had not sent your child's valentines to school prior to the snow days, please be sure to send them with him/her tomorrow. Thank you!

Last Wednesday, February 3rd, we celebrated the 100th day of school! As always, we had an exciting day! Our door was decorated as a giant 100! We walked through the TENS column!

We had many fun activities! We brought Mystery Bags from home. We had written three clues on the outside and counted 100 of an object on the inside. We took turns sharing the clues and trying to guess the contents of the Mystery Bags! They were AWESOME! We started our 100 Signature Autograph Books! We set the timer and asked our friends to sign our autograph books until we had all of our classmates' signatures. We even got Mrs. Alyssa's and Ms. Caudill's too! Ms. Tutewiler came to visit and we got to get hers as well!

Since it was a snowy day we incorporated some 100th Day movement! We completed a book and then followed the directions and clapped, snapped, tapped and flapped 100 times!

After our movement activity we worked in our 100th Day centers! We made 100 - stick sculptures, 100 piece mosaics, 100 piece puzzles, 100 inch pictures, 100 block buildings, and 100 link chains! To finish the day we made a 100 piece snack! We had a WONDERFUL 100th day of school!

Harrison County Schools are cooperating in a joint effort to help the people of Haiti as they work to overcome the devastation brought on by the earthquake of last month. To do our part we are asking EVERY student in our class to donate at least ONE jar of peanut butter or ONE bag of dried beans to the cause! These staples will be combined and sent straight to the front lines and into the hands of the people of Haiti. In this way even the youngest of us can help! Thank you in advance!

We have enjoyed using our newest math material to make shapes and designs with line segments and shapes. Here is just a sampling of some of the creative things we came up with!

This week we learned a lot about animals and the behaviors they have during the winter. We learned about animals that hibernate. They find a den, cave, or burrow and are relatively inactive for the winter. That means that in the fall they are very active eating and getting ready for winter! Here we are just after entering our caves!

We also learned that some animals migrate to warmer climates. Here we are migrating from the COLD north side of our room to the WARM south side of our room. Notice that it is snowing in the north and the warm sun is shining in the south!

Finally, we learned that some animals, like humans, adapt and stay active in the winter. We donned our coats, hats, and gloves and took a walk around the school building in the cold winter weather. We talked about how other animals grow thick coats and gather in food! 

We had a great time and learned a lot about how animals live through the winter!

We have been working on graphing all kinds of things. We have rolled our dot cubes and graphed the numbers. We have graphed pattern blocks. We have graphed teddy bear counters. We have graphed the boys and girls in our class. Now we have even graphed our own shoes! What a fun thing to graph!

Before leaving for our winter break our class enjoyed a fabulous holiday party. First we played musical presents to exchange our gifts!

Next we enjoyed some incredible food prepared by our more than generous parents!

  Then we gave Ms. Caudill an incredible gift…A CAMERA!!! Here are the first pictures taken with the new camera! 

Finally we got to open our gifts!!! We thought the time would NEVER come!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! From Ms. Caudill and Family!