More Egg Fun!

We had so much fun today making an egg in a nest and dying Easter egg.

Students got to crack their own raw egg and pour it into a bread nest.  They watched it cook and of course enjoyed eating their  creations.
Students also spent the morning dying eggs and learning how to mix colors.
Thank you parents for sending in the boiled eggs!

A special thanks to Aunty LeeAnne, Alicia Sams, Tammy & Mel Tapucol, Adrianne Blackstad and Traci Sullivan for helping us.

Check back for more classroom pictures of today's events.

Announcements for the week of 3/28 - 4/2

Today begins our EGG-citing, EGG-science week and Dental Health Week!
So far we have soaked an egg in vinegar and made some predictions of what we think will happen as well as observed with our 5 senses. We have also made Apple Smiles and soaked in egg in Coke.

Here are some announcements for this week:

-If you have not sent in your child's permission form please do so ASAP
-Report Cards go home today
-Tuesday is PE - Don't forget to wear shoes
-Students need to bring 2 hard boiled eggs by Wednesday morning for egg dying
-Thursday students need to bring their egg in their contraption.
-Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday.
-Friday is a HOLIDAY

Fruit Salad. . . Yummy, Yummy!

This past week we learned about how parts can make a whole.  We learned what different parts (numbers) can  make 10 and 5 using our counters as well as how to make equal parts out of a whole.

To reinforce the lesson we made fruit salad on Thursday afternoon.  Students cut our WHOLE fruits into different and equal PARTS.  Each PART made a WHOLE fruit salad.  Of course the best part was getting to enjoy the "fruits" of their labor.

EGG -cellent Science!!

Beginning on Monday, March 29th through April 1st the Kindergarten class will be having an EGG-cellent Science week!!  Each day we will be doing a different EGG-speriment, culminating with an EGG hunt on Thursday afternoon.

Donations of the following are needed:

• Plastic Eggs
• Candy and other trinkets to fill the eggs

Volunteers are needed (If you are able to volunteer, please comment on the blog below):

• Wednesday - Cooking & Dyeing Eggs (8 a.m. - 10 a.m.)
• Thursday - Egg Hut (12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.)

We are also doing a family project as part of the EGG-cellent science.  We would like you to work with your child in creating a "contraption" that will keep a raw egg from breaking when dropped.  This is part of our science unit of gravity.  The students will be conducting an experiment using their contraptions on Thursday morning.


The criteria for this project is:

• Students must use only recycled materials 
• Contraption should be no bigger than 5" x 5" x 5"
• Due on Thursday, April 1st
• Please have raw egg in the contraption when student brings it to school on Thursday.

Items Needed

During the 2nd week of April our classroom focus will be on Community Helpers, Buyers & Sellers, and Wants & Needs.  For our Center times we will be creating a grocerystore, doctors office, salon, post office, and police station.   
We are looking for the following items for our centers:

* Empty Envelopes (the kind you get in the mail with your bills)

* Empty food containers (grocery store)

* Table Top Scale (post office)

* Band Aids

* ACE Bandages

* Dress up outfits (police, doctor, aprons, etc.)

* Table top Mirrors

If you have any other items that you think might work in our centers please let me know.  Thank you so much for you help and support, I know the students are going to love these centers and your help will make it all possible. 

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Our Centers

This semester we have implemented centers as part of our instruction in the classroom.  

Here are the goals for our learning centers which are based on the 6 GLO's:

1. To give children a chance to make their own choices.

2. To have the children learn time management.
3. To provide a wide variety of activities for the children to complete.
4. To teach the children to work in small groups.
5. To provide activities that meet the varying abilities of the students.
6. To encourage children to try new things and solve problems.
7. To encourage the students to share what they have learned.

I encourage you to ask your children what they are learning and have them share their experiences with you.  I have added a slideshow below of the children working in the centers for you to view. . . enjoy!!

Welcome to my blog. . .

Welcome to Mrs. Sakuda's blog page, I am new at this blogging thing but I am going to give it a try.  I have posted information for your information as well as weblinks for you and your child to do at home. 

I will be posting picutres and information on classroom activities and events on a regular basis, along with the monthly lunch menu and classroom calendar.  I will also be posting blogs on what's going on in our classroom as well as ways in which you can help. 

Please feel free to comment to the blogs (see sidebar).  I will try to respond to as many as possible.