Work time-going off to kindergarten

All of the kids have come a long way since the beginning of the year!  There is always something to challenge the kids!  My going off to kindergarteners are so eager and ready for anything!!  (: 

Here is a little boy working on addition! 

Here is a little boy working on spelling! 

Pin pushing continents

Next step:  making a continent map

Matching continents and animals that live in the continents

Another friend working on her math.  Here is how this piece of equipment works.  The child looks at the equation and puts the first number of stones in the first black container and does the same with the second number.  They dump the two black containers into the white container and counts them up and writes the answer.  It's really cool when they start figuring out the equations without using the stones. 

Here is another way we work on math equations.  I love how the kids are learning what an equation, addition and sums are.

World/Continents

We learned about our world last week!  We sang a song that talked about where we live!  Here are some of our friends helping with our song!

"Where in the world!"

tune:  He's got the whole world

I live on the planet, the planet earth (2x)

I live on the planet earth.

I live in the continent of North America (2x)

I live in North America.

I live in the country of the United States (2x)

I live in the United States.

I live in the state of Wisconsin (2x)

I live in Wisconsin.

I live in the city of Racine (2x)

I live in Racine.

We also made "Where I live" books!

We also had continent necklace making on the shelves too!

Our World

We are learning about our world/continents this week. 

The kids are learning about the 7 continents of the world.  Ask them to sing you our continent song. 

North America, South America,
Europe, Asia, Africa.
Where is Australia?  Here is Australia. 
Don't forget Antarctica, don't forget antarctica!

The kids picked up on this song right away!! 

We also talked about where we live in the world.  We talked about how we live on earth, the continent of North America, country of United States, state of Wisconsin and city of Racine (most of us).  On Wednesday, I'll post the pictures and words of our other song.

For our art project we made waterwash worlds.  We showed the kids a map and they were suppose to draw 6 continents green and 1 white (Antarctica) and then paint the whole thing blue.  They did a great job!!

They will finish their worlds on Wednesday by putting stickers of animals of the different continents.