Fun Websites

Is your child bored with the same old websites? Or are you trying to find some great websites that you can use to help your child? Well, the websites listed below are excellent! They are kindergarten kid friendly as well as parent friendly. Check them out and let me know what you think.

kindersite.org (even has some stories, songs, and games in spanish)
funschool.kaboose.com
starfall.com
seussville.com
sesameworkshop.org
learningplanet.com
little-g.com
aplusmath.com
pbskids.org
noggin.com
http://franklincountyschools.k12tn.net/CMKwebsites.html
www.abcmouse.com

Great phonics blending games:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/blending.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/skyriding.html
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/dubcubs.html


And check out the youtube.com page that we use in class every day. I made the channels and the playlists so all of the videos are ones that we watch in class. There are lots of good counting, ABC, phonics, math, etc videos.

www.youtube.com/caekinder

Ss Week (Sept. 24-28)

 

 

Our letter of the week was Ss. In our centers we

wrote Ss words on dry erase boards, worked on our 4 square Ss

illustrations and labeling, read books and went on a password hunt, played with leapsters and played a letter game with letter dice.

Your children also got to play on my ipad and they worked

on making words, letters/sounds and learning the

basics of how to properly manipulate the ipad.

If you have an ipad and you want to know about some

of the apps I use, please email me. Also,

if you have suggestions please let me know.

The ipad is such a great learning tool and hopefully one day

MISD elementary students can be as lucky as the high school

kids (if you didn't know, all MISD HS students

have an ipad that is for school use only).



Everyone enjoyed Audrey's

slimey snails that she brought in for the letter Ss.

Some of the snails were trying to escape!

 



I think everyone's favorite part of this week

was Silly Sock Day! They enjoyed showing off their silly

socks, dancing in their silly socks and then coloring

a sock to match their own socks. Above you can see

Eva's journal entry about Silly Sock Day.

This class loves to sort. After we read, Button Box, the kids got to practice

sorting buttons from my button box collection. We sorted by shape,

size, style and color.

 

 



Above are the kids doing their best at literacy stations. They had to

make words, look for passwords, complete ABC puzzles, learn on starfall.com 

and so much more. Ask your child what their favorite center is. 

Below the kids prepare our cinnamon carmelized apples - a delicious treat.

They were great chefs! We also had an apple taste test. The overall class

favorite was red apples. Ask your child what their favorite kind of apple was.





We finished Friday with a volcano eruption.

Thank you Audrey for bringing in your awesome

volcano to share with the class. They really enjoyed watching it erupt!

September Birthdays

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TRACI,

NATHAN, BEN AND AUDREY!

September

These were the finalist for the most creative M monsters. We read the book Monsters Need Haircuts

and then the class had to turn their letter M into the scariest, silliest or most creative monster.

I had a judge pick the best and she couldn't narrow it down from these 6.

Congrats to the finalist who were making their best monster faces!

 



Here is Audrey leading the class in reading My A Book.

We took turns highlighting the word "the" since it is our

password for this week.

 



The class really enjoyed reading Moosetache

and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. We then made our own

If you Give a Moose a Muffin book. The class had to think of something

that started with the letter M that the moose would want

after his muffin. They did a great job illustrating this book.

At the end of the year every student will go home with at least

one class book. This is why I am always asking for extra

folders with brads. :)

 

 On Thursday we played Grab a Shape.

The students grabbed shapes, sorted and then counted how

many of each shape that they had. These were then glued into their

journals. This is a great game you can play at home.

 

 

We also made shapes out of toothpicks.

 Can you make a circle out of toothpicks?

Impossible!

 

 

 

 

This week we are talking about sorting by shape,

size and color -- aka attributes. Below are several pictures

of the kids sorting various objects. They did EXCELLENT with

this so far. This is another fun activity you can do at

home with your child.

 



Dr. Hecklestein and the Diet Coke + Mentos Experiment

 

 

Your child might be coming home today and telling you about the mad scientist, Dr. Hecklestein, that they met today. They might tell you that they think that I was Dr. Hecklestein but I was in a very important meeting while Dr. Hecklestein visited the kindergarten classes to perform the experiment. So, don't let them fool you into thinking that I was that mad scientist who just got back from Hawaii.

But I did hear that Dr. Hecklestein and the kids got to become super scientist and conduct a very important experiment with mentos and diet coke. Ask you child about the amazing diet coke explosions and how diet coke explodes compared to the offbrand coke. Did you know that diet coke explodes amazingly AMAZING while offbrand coke does nothing but barely fizzle. What a dud?!?!

So, if you want to try this experiment at home buy Diet Coke (not the cheap brand) and get ready for the explosion.

 



Welcome, Bienvenido, حفلة استقبال, Sự Hoan Nghinh!

 

Welcome to the 2012-2013 class blog!

I hope this blog will keep you updated on everything you could ever want to know about our class. I use this blog to communicate with you all by posting pictures of your kiddos busy at work, homework ideas, fun classroom stories, and much much more. I also love to share the blog with my students.

Please feel free to contact me anytime through email, phone, and of course, by commenting on the blog. I would love it if you became a follower of the blog as well.

Thanks,
Mrs. Hendrix
Kindergarten Team Leader
kristenhendrix@misdmail.org
817.299.7760

***I couldn't find it in me to delete the posts from the previous years. I hope it does not cause any confusion. Feel free to take a peek but please note that not everything will be the same this year. Every year is different and special!

 

 

What a great start we all had! Everyone made new friends, sang songs, learned the rules, took a tour of the school, played with math tubs, listened to stories, practiced reading "I am in kindergarten.", played with playdoh and so much more. This is a fabulous class and I am so excited to continue the year with your kiddos. :)

 

 

 Jayla on her first day

 

 Gwendolyn reads "I am in kindergarten."

 

 "I am Nathan. Who do you see?"

 

 

Exploring math centers:

Singing 10 Best Friends:

 Amir leads us in counting to 100

 

 

 Our friends lead us in singing the months of the year song

and the days of the week song:

 Sorting 2d shapes

 

 

 We all drank jitter juice on the first day of school

after we read First Day Jitters.

It helped get rid of those first day jitters.

 

 

 We love making Mary Had a Little Lamb a bit silly: