Friday News Flash

Additional Music with Mr. Johnson

This year our Kindergartners are lucky enough to get 30 minutes of extra music on Monday's taught by the Estacada High School band director Mr. Johnson. He has done some wonderful activities with the kids that compliments what we are working on in class and has been very fun at the same time! This week he did a fun art activity where students were told to scribble with their eyes closed, but their scribbles had to match the music that he was playing! There were moments of frantic lines all over the paper and then moments of calm circles. It was very fun to watch and the kids really enjoyed it! Here are some of their "masterpieces" that they made :)

Plant Writing

To shore up all the work that we did around plants last week, we worked on a writing piece this week that told readers what plants need. Students were also introduced to a new punctuation mark, the comma! As you will see in the photos below some are still getting the hang of it, but now that they know it they point them out everywhere! This was also a great chance for students to use all their writing skills to teach their readers something. They used their picture, labeling and of course their words to convey their ideas. They have come so far in their writing this year!

Right Brain Creative Dramatics

We are so fortunate to have Miss Flinn back this week and her focus was on role playing the varying jobs in a neighbor. Miss Flinn posted a picture of a community and each child got to pick a part to act out! It was wonderful to see kids using their whole bodies to tell a story. The students loved it and are already asking when Miss Flinn is coming back, which is always a great sign :) Here are some photos of the different roles students were acting out:

Two girls who are a swing set!

Students being a fire truck! Sirens and all!

Science with the High School

This Thursday was our second of three trips over to the high school to explore science concepts with the engineering students. This week the focus was on different pushes and pulls that students do in their everyday lives. Students came up with great ideas like pushing in a chair, pulling open a door, pushing a sibling on the swings and more. Next week we are going to finish up our experiments with the high school students. Here are some photos of students working on drawing their examples of pushes and pulls, experiencing some pushing and pulling and of course controlling a robot by pushing a button!

What a wonderful week it was! Next week we will learn more about ducks as we only have 2 more weeks until our ducks arrive! We will also continue working with teen numbers and move into subtraction. I can't wait!

Smiles,

Miss Adams