The Minnesota State Rock is the agate. We looked at some real agates.Then we wrote the words for our Minnesota Book. Then we painted our own agates. We were very careful and they turned out AWESOME!
Last, we cut the agates out and glued them in our books.
We learned that our state bird is the Loon. We watched and heard some loons on youtube.com before we made our own loon. We talked about where a loon would be happy to live. Next we colored that setting in our Minnesota Book.
We read a book about mud and then read a poem with the same words. After we circled all of our Lifetime Words, we each illustrated our own poem. We are awesome at drawing!Here is TJ's before he added the mud with brown paint.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hi Everyone, Sorry it's been such a long time since I updated this blog! We have been super busy in kindergarten! I hope you enjoy these new updates and much as I am enjoying your child! Also, its super easy to right click on pictures you like to save for your own collection of memories.
In March, we read some books about robins. We were also on the look out at home to see if we could spot any in our yards! Almost everyone saw one right away! Then we made our own robins to celebrate SPRING!See that piece of gummy worm in the robin's mouth?
I have been teaching school for 15 years. This is my fifth year in kindergarten. Before kindergarten, I taught 1st grade. I absolutely love my job! I live in Maple Grove with my husband, Dave. I have 4 grown sons: Tim, Rob, Brian, and Scott. Brian is married to Amy. I am blessed to have them all live in the area. I like to hike, garden, drink coffee, read, and entertain. But my favorite thing to do is teach kindergarten!