Hello, February!

Wow! February already!  It's another busy month- check out what's happening at the OKC:)

February Calendar

February News

Kindness Week

Lunch Menu

Project Lead the Way - Structure and Function

Hello!

It has been a long time since I've blogged about our days in Kindergarten!  I hope you have all stayed connected through Seesaw, as that seems to be the easiest way to communicate our daily happenings at Osgood!  Please let me know if you need help connecting to your child's online learning portfolio!

This month we've been doing some fun science and engineering projects focusing on Structure and Function.  We read Jack and the Beanstalk and discussed the structure (what it looks like) of the beanstalk, as well as the function (what it does).  Our challenge was to build the tallest beanstalk we could using the engineering and design process.  We also worked on making the beanstalk strong enough to hold an egg.  It was SO fun!

Here is a peek at the start of our project.

We also read The Three Little Pigs and discussed the structure and function of the houses that were built in the story.  Once again, we used the engineering and design process to build a house that could withstand a strong gust of wind.  Check out the videos!

Collaborating with our partners...

House of bricks

House of sticks

House of straw

This is such a fun time for the kids to be creative and collaborate with their peers.  It is also SO FUN for me to step back and watch these smarties in action!

We will continue this coming week with a paintbrush design, and follow with Forces & Motion next week!  Stay tuned!

Weekly Update

Hello!

What a great week we had!

As I mentioned in our last post, we started learning more about science and what scientists do.  We talked about asking questions and doing experiments.  One of the books we read asked the question, does salt melt ice?  Well, we decided to complete an experiment in order to answer the question, or draw our conclusion.  Here's what we did!

We used two cups and put an ice cube into each cup.  Our control cup only had the ice cube.  The other cup had the ice cube and 1 teaspoon of salt.

While we observed the experiment we noticed that both cubes melted, but the cube with salt melted quicker.  

We wrote about our experiment and made the conclusion that salt melts ice.

It was fun to be a scientist and we are looking forward to next week when we become engineers!

Welcome 2016!

Hello families!

It is so good to be back in the swing of things here at school!  We are recharged and ready to continue learning and getting ready for first grade.

We've already been busy this week with reviewing Text Connections as well as short vowel word families.  One of our Daily 5 activities is spelling short vowel words so make sure to check out your child's Seesaw Journal!  We are also practicing skip counting by 10s and reading numbers.

This week we are talking about science and what scientists do.  Stay tuned for all the fun pictures and information on our science units coming soon!

I hope everyone had a nice break!  Please see our January News below and let me know if you have any questions!

December Happenings

It's been way too long since our last classroom update!  We have had a fun and busy December.
Here are a few highlights from our month!

Gingerbread VIP Day
Thanks for taking time to help us build gingerbread houses!
Everyone did a spectacular job on their house.

We listened to the story The Polar Express and enjoyed pajama day.  We also boarded the Polar Express train and watched part of the movie.

SANTA visits Osgood!

 He's here!!

 Waiting patiently... :)

Singing songs as Santa walks around.

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And, from my crazy family to yours...

Merry Christmas and best wishes for the HAPPIEST NEW YEAR!

News from the Week

We were BUSY Little Learners this week!  We talked about our five senses and used The Gingerbread Man book to help us describe gingerbread cookies.  We used our sense of sight to notice the features of a gingerbread cookie such as arms, legs, head, buttons, eyes, and mouth.  

Our sense of smell told us that gingerbread cookies have a spicy scent.  

We did a fun activity using QR codes to use our sense of hearing to guess who quoted the Gingerbread Man when he said, "Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"  

Can you guess who said it?

When we used our sense of touch we noticed that a gingerbread cookie feels smooth, crispy, and bumpy.  Finally, we used our sense of taste and ate a gingerbread cookie!  Ask your child...

We also had our gingerbread house VIP day on Friday and had a great time!  Thank you so much for all of the candy donations!  The houses were beautiful and I'm sure quite tasty as well!  I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

Thanks for a great week!

Next Week:

Miss Guhlke is in charge!  She has some fun things planned!

Please remember that library books are due back to school on Thursday, Dec. 10.

Let me know if you have any questions.  :)  Have a great weekend!

December News

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this month!  Check out our December news here.  You can always find the December lunch menu on our district website, or click here!