Food and Nutrition

I would like to share with you a document that you can download and print off.  I have created a list of first and second quarter sight words, "Popcorn Words," that I would like you to practice with your child.  Print them off in cardstock, have them cut on the lines.... and away you go!  We do many activities throughout the day with sight words.  Some sight words are decodable, however, many are not.  Knowledge of high frequency words is critical to reading fluency.... so practice, practice, practice. :)

We spent all of last week learning about the different food groups, as well as healthy food vs. junk food. We made "Kindergarten Chow" to represent the different food groups:  dairy, vegetables, grains, protein  and fruit.  We sorted our chow, counted how many of each, wrote the numbers, and then graphed our data.  The kids really loved the activity....and just so everyone knows.... the yogurt covered raisins were by far their favorite part of the chow. :)

Dairy= yogurt covered raisins, Vegetables=Veggie Chips, Fruit=dried cherries, Protein=nuts, and Grains=cereal 

We are really starting to write!  We did more interactive writing this week; it was awesome!  Together we wrote about pizza.  Normally I teach to use two finger spaces between words, but to make thing more fun I made these adorable little "SPACEMEN" to use instead!  They worked wonderfully.... and I thought it was adorable the few times I caught the kiddos pretending to fly their little spacemen around!

SPACEMEN!

Working so hard on our writing!

Correct letter formation was really stressed during this activity. :)

We also made illustrated a book about where pizza comes from.  I loved this book because it hit on every food group we were learning about!   The kids really did a great job illustrating this and I loved seeing their drawings and listening to them read this!  I sent this home on Friday.... so have your child read it to you and help them along as they go. :)

Isn't that pig adorable?!

We read the book "Pinkalicious" by Victoria Kann.  It is an adorable story about a little girl who eats so many pink cupcakes she turns pink!  Of course, to counteract the pink she must eat a bunch of green things to turn back to normal. :)  I thought it would be sooooo fun to do an activity this week around this book so, using my photoshop prowess ;),  I turned all the kids' pictures into a coloring page and then THEY had to write what they ate and what color it turned them.  We are really working on identifying sounds in words and this activity was an incredible way for them to really work on segmenting sounds in words and letter formation.  SOOO fun!!!!  We turned their pages into a book that I named "Kinderlicious"..... so look for it to be coming home soon!

Here is a sneak peak of what you will find in the book!

Lastly, we did a ton of math activities this week around junk food!  We finished patterns, counted tallies, practiced ordinal numbers, and counted objects.  Overall, the kiddos did great! :)

There are some very special Veterans in my life, so next week we will be doing a unit on America!  I can't wait to share with you all of the amazing things we will be doing!  Stay tuned...... :)))))