It Tastes Like...

This week, we finished our study of our five senses. Our last experiment revolved around our sense of taste.  First we looked at two cups marked A and B.  Inside were two white piles that we wanted to identify.  First we used our sense of sight, but they looked the same.  Then we shook the cups to use our hearing, but they made the same sound.  Then we rolled a little between our fingers, and they felt the same.  We then smelled both cups, but they didn't have a scent.  Finally, we decided we had to use our sense of taste to know what was in the cups.

 First, we dipped toothpicks in a cup of water.  Then we dipped the wet toothpick into a cup for us to taste.  We repeated for cup A and B.  After using only our sense of taste, we were able to correctly identify cup A as salt and cup B as sugar!  We love when our lessons taste good!





Mystery Reader

Today we welcomed Grace's mom as our Mystery Reader!  She read us a wonderful story called Grace for President.  We had a great time listening to the story and talking about our favorite part.  Thank you for joining us today, Ms. Sears!

Vocabulary Parade costumes

Next Friday, October 19, our class will be participating in the Vocabulary Parade!  At the parade, each student at Harlan will be dressing up as their chosen vocabulary word!  Next week, our class will be learning about color words.  To go with this, the kindergarten team is asking that each kindergartener chooses their favorite color word.  If you have not already doe so, please fill out the Costume Planner sheet that was sent home earlier this week.  Please remember that you do not need to purchase costumes for this event.  After choosing their color word, your child can wear clothes of that color to the parade.  You can even decorate a shirt with pictures/objects that are the chosen color as well!  Also, the color word needs to large and visible on the costume for others to read.

My favorite color is yellow, so I am going to wear as much yellow as I can find!  I can't wait to see all the kindergarteners in their color costumes!

Harlan Media Center website

I have just added the Harlan Media Center website to our list of links.  Here you will find

-access to our library catalog
-WorldBook online encyclopedia
-PebbleGo
-Tumblebooks
-IXL Math
-Raz-Kids
-AR Home Connect and more! 

These resources are available at both school AND home!

Specials Schedule for the Week of 10/15 - 10/19

Monday - Media Center (Please remember to return your library book)
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - PE (Please remember to bring your gym shoes)
Thursday - Art & PE (Please rememebr to bring your gym shoes)
Friday - Media Center (Please remember to return your library book)

Music Class

Mrs. Cooper shared these pictures with me of our class in music.  This was from their Fall Walk activity.  This was a great way of introducing the kindergarteners to rhythm instruments, which represented the pieces of fall they brought to class!

Also, I have included Mrs. Cooper's Harlan Music Room website as a link on our blog! 



Beginning Sound BINGO

Here we are playing beginning sound BINGO!  We are having so much fun matching letters to different pictures based on their beginning sounds!  Sometimes, just to make it trickier, we each have 2 sheets of pictures to look at!