Flying Through February

February flew by!  (It went so quickly that it was sometimes hard to remember to take pictures.)  Here is a glance at a few things that stood out this month!

We have been working hard to learn sight words.  We play games and do other fun activities that help us read, write, and create the words in various ways.  In these pictures we are using watercolor paints to trace different sight words.  In the other picture you can see some work that we have done with word families.  We recently finished a project where we wrote the word families in Truffula trees (like in the Dr Seuss story The Lorax).

Earlier this month we made bird feeders to hang on the tree outside of the classroom.  These bird feeders were made with pine cones, peanut butter, and bird seed.  Now that the weather is a bit warmer we have noticed birds coming and nibbling at the bird seed.  It's so exciting!

We continue to earn "alphabits" when we are following school rules and doing expected behaviors.  Our celebrations have been a blast so far but our most recent celebration was the best of all!  We made play dough and we got to choose a color and glitter to mix in.  Plus, Miss Wetzel brought in some new cookie cutters to play with!

We have still not had very much time outside in the forest.  We have made quick trips and are hoping to officially be back to our normal forest routine in March (depending on the weather of course).  We really enjoy when both kindergarten classes can be together! 

It was amazing to celebrate being in school for 100 days as a class.  We did so many fun activities!  (You can also check out the blog post all about that fun day.)

At the end of the month we began celebrating the lead up to "I Love to Read" month.  There were several fun spirit days such as crazy sock day, favorite book character day, and Read Across America Day.