Back to School, Back to School...

I'm finding it a little bit hard to believe that we are already almost done with our second week back to school. We really hit the ground running (literally - I landed at LAX at about 10:00 p.m. and was up and on my way to school by 5:30 a.m. the next morning...clearly I like to live on the edge). We have been busy in Kindergarten since 2015 started! I don't have time to catch you up on everything, but I did want to share just a little bit.

PENGUINS

Even though it is just starting to get a little chilly here in L.A., I figured we could at least pretend it's winter and learn about cold weather through our unit on penguins. Plus penguins are pretty cute and the little ones loved learning about them!

I don't have many penguin books in my library, so I used one of my favorite sites, www.wegivebooks.com, to read See How They Grow: Penguins, Baby Penguins Everywhere, and DK Readers: Emperor Penguins.

*www.wegivebooks.com is an awesome non-profit social enterprise that provides free books for low-income communities, schools, and homes. You can help out just by signing up (for free) and reading children's books on their site! Learn more here.

After reading these two informational texts and a lit text for fun about penguins, we discussed all of the new information that we had learned. Then we put it down in writing and made little penguins to crafts and booklets to decorate the room.

I got the template for the "All About Penguins" booklet from Miss Kindergarten here. I hope all of these amazing Kindergarten teachers who put up free resources for all of us know how much we appreciate them! I would be lost without their last minute lifesavers.