Election Day!

We may not be 18, but we sure are excited about the presidential election! We learned about the candidates and the voting process.

Who will you vote for?

We talked about how voting is a secretive process - and it's not polite to ask people who they voted for, or tell them who they should vote for if they haven't asked us for our opinion. We checked off our vote on a ballot, then invited the other kindergarten classes into our classroom to vote too! When they were all done, we sorted and counted the ballots together on the floor.

Sorting the ballots - it was a tense few minutes!

As is typical with my class, we predicted the winner before it was ever officially announced! :)

The final results - kindergarten 2012 re-elects President Obama.

Congrats again, kids!

End of October Fun!

We had a fun last week of October! On pumpkin day, we painted pumpkins we brought from home and painted pumpkins on paper. We used a class pumpkin to take various measurements, including its weight, height, and circumference. We had a contest to see whose predictions were closest to the correct measurement. Here were the final results:

We also used a special math key called a "glyph" to create monsters who had a secret code about ourselves. They were adorable!

Leaf Decorating

Fall is here with a vengeance - brrr! We worked on fine motor skills AND decorated our class windows at the same time! Happy autumn!

Catching up!

Wow! What a month! Sorry for the delay in posting. Here are some activities we've wrapped up this month:

• CATERPILLARS! We successfully raised and freed two monarch caterpillars! We hope they're enjoying their vacation in Mexico! 

We made predictions about what our new class pet would be!

We looked closely at milkweed!

Good morning, friend!

• SPYING READERS! We went on a hunt around our school for readers in action. We found students and adults reading all around the building.

Aren't we the cutest?!

• We are Authors! We've all tried out the "share chair" for a chance to share our writing with an audience. Here are a few pictures from the first weeks of school, and our very first assignments as writers. I can tell I have a VERY talented class this year!