Mrs. Nelson's Kindergarten: Apple Sauce Day!

I'm going to warn you, I took a lot of pictures this week!

On Monday we started having Camp (Intervention). If your child needs a little extra help in an area, they will join a small group to work on that skill. If they do not need to work on those specific skills, they join Ms. Fenstermann in the large group and read books and sing songs.

Tuesday we did apple centers! Each teacher had a different center and the kids switched rooms. Ms. Fenstermann did apple tasting and graphing, Mrs. Mayne made apple juice, and I did the apple with the star in the middle and apple stamping.

They gave the juice a thumbs up!

Today we made applesauce! A huge mess, but totally worth it!

Yesterday I asked the kids their recipe for making applesauce. Some had no clue what goes into it, and others were sure they knew! (Some were pretty close, but some were way off…) :) Some said to add “a spoon of black stuff”, or 4 gallons of sugar and 2 gallons of milk, or an egg, or even honey meat (but he said he didn’t even like it.) When I asked how long to cook it, Owen said “You have to cook it?” and Max thought “26 seconds.” I love this age!

In math we started working on addition and subtraction! We learned that addition means putting together and subtraction means taking apart. The kids were doing awesome with this! They can’t wait to learn more! We also have been learning about circles.

If you haven’t already, please send a white t-shirt for your child’s birthday shirt!

We started reading our books for our reading series! These are the one folded page books. The kids are so excited about being able to read. We read them in class and with partners, and now their homework is to read them to at least one adult at home and then a brother, sister, cat, dog... Please sign it on the back after you read it and return it to school.

We started using book boxes at school. We each have 5 books in there and can read the words, look at the pictures, or retell the story if we have heard it before. We are working on our stamina of reading quietly to ourselves. So far we are at about 5 minutes. They love this part of the day!