Mrs. Kris’ Classroom

We had a fun last week!!! I savored every minute with this sweet crew! I watched them jump on the inflatables, get their cute faces painted, heard them laughing while they played in the “enchanted forest”, and we ate so much good food. I’m going miss hearing these sweet voices say my name.
Here’s to summer ☀️🏝️
Rockmart First Methodist Preschool

Lemonade Day 🍋
The kids got to go to the Bank (Mrs.Mandy) and get money to come “buy” some Lemonade! They had to count their money and tell me how much they had! This is always one of my favorite days ☀️

We are getting to witness the butterfly life cycle! Our caterpillars are officially in their chrysalis! Hopefully we will have some butterflies soon! We spent this past week learning what happens to a caterpillar! We did centers for the kids to learn about each stage in a butterfly’s life! We had eggs crack open to reveal a caterpillar! Then we glued the caterpillar (pompoms) onto a clothespin where the caterpillars moved into their chrysalis (toilet paper roll). After a day or two, the caterpillars broke out of their chrysalis and were beautiful butterflies! We read a butterfly emergent reader where the kids had to put the butterfly life cycle into the correct sequence. Then we ended the week with our field trip to the strawberry patch! 🦋🐛🍓

We painted our very own Yo-Yo’s for the letter Y! Then we did Z is for Zoo and “caged” some animals. We celebrated Earth day by making paper, decorating some cookies, and measuring with unifix cubes! 🌎❤️🐒🐯🐍🦓🦍

Every craft is my favorite… but I promise this one really is so fun!!! We learned W is for weather! We used watercolor and pipettes to make rain drops. Then we lifted up our paper and watched it rain!! 🌧️ We also made a weather windsock and used cotton balls to make clouds! For the letter X, we learned about X-rays! The kids used watercolor to paint and watched the “bones” appear. We read books focusing on our sight word, like! 🌧️🌬️🩻💙🩵🖤💜

U is for (rocking) unicorns and V is for volcanoes!! We worked on sorting words that starts with U and then ended the week with one my favorite things, a volcano science experiment! Be on the lookout for the video! 🤩🦄🌋

Look at these cuties with all of their Easter crafts. 🤩 we learned the true meaning of Easter and worked on learning syllables! These kiddos did awesome picking up on syllables! I was so impressed! ❤️

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! A stomach bug about took us all out, so I haven’t posted in a while!
We learned the letter T and did T is for Tents! We had a camping theme! We read a bunch of books, made tents from popsicle sticks, made campfire paintings by blowing paint around, and then spelled our names out with marshmellows on a stick! My favorite part though, was making s’mores in Solar ovens!!! 🏕️ 🔥🌲

Last week was all about the letter S! We learned about our Solar System! We learned the planets and what order they are in! We salt painted the Earth, painted the moon with puffy paint, painted Saturn with watercolor, cut and paste the planets in order, and then did solar system stations! 🌏🪐🌕🌑🌟
Station 1: felt board
Station 2: Velcro planets
Station 3: popsicle stick planets
Station 4: paint stick planets!
Then we of course had to make a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

Dr.Seuss Week 🤍💙❤️
We learned how to rhyme words all week long! We of course had to do some fun crafts for Dr.Seuss week! We painted hair on Thing 1 using a fork! Then we made our own book of rhymes and practiced rhyming words and beginning letter sounds! We did a cut and paste where the kids had to match the words that rhymed! We practiced one to one correspondence by doing a 10 apples on top craft! We even made the cutest little Truffula trees out of paint blots! Finally, we ended the week by playing with Oobleck!

Last week we learned about my favorite thing.. rainbows! We learned the order of the rainbow colors and made some pretty cool crafts! We made our own macrame rainbow keychains. The kids got to pick one color and then had to continue with the correct order of the rainbow colors. The next day we made the sweetest rainbows to remind us of God’s promise. We finished up the week by reading the Rainbow Fish and decorating our own fish with a shiny scale! 🌈

Gearing up to go back after winter break, but first here is what we learned for letter Q! Always one of my favorite crafts, we made a Classroom Quilt. We practiced our geometry skills, we learned how putting shapes together can actually create other shapes! Each student used triangles to make a square “quilt” pattern, then I laced them all together to make a quilt! And yes, I keep these quilts forever 🥹 We also did a letter match activity! The kids had to match the letters on the stickers to the letters on the Queen’s crown! 🧵👸🏼❤️

Valentine’s Day Is easily one of my favorite holidays 😘💘❤️💕💌

This week we learned about the letter P and polar animals! We focused on polar bears, penguins, and more! We talked about their habitat and did a cut/paste environment scene! Then we made a polar animals fluency reader! We took turns reading and the kiddos loved the walrus! 😂 we ended the week by walking like a polar bear, doing a polar bear directed drawing with chalk, and then we did a polar bear science experiment! 🐻‍❄️🐧🦭🐋

For letter O we learned all things Ocean!
We learned about different ocean zones: Sunlight zone, twilight zone, and midnight zone! We talked how the darker the water color, the deeper it is! We did a cut and paste sort to cover which animals live in the ocean! We practiced reading with an Ocean themed emergent reader and practiced graphing! 🪼🦀🐙

It’s been a minute since I have shared what we have have learning!
N is for nature!

We learned about sand, soil, rocks, and mud! We learned about the different textures of each, different kind of rocks (metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary) and then we did centers to explore each! The kiddos played in soil, sand, mud (slime) and observed rocks! Then we made an edible craft representing each! Pudding-mud crushed graham crackers- sand crushed cookie crumbs- soil and buncha crunch candy- rocks!

M is for [simple] machines and motion! We learned about simple machines! What better way to learn about wheels and axles than making our very own cars! We then learned about inclined planes and built ramps out of blocks to play! 🏎️🛞 we ended the day by racing cars to see who had the fastest car! ⭐️🏆

Whew! It’s been so busy! Here’s what we learned for letter K!
We learned about Benjamin Franklin and his kite and key! We made the cutest Ben Franklin puppets.
Thank you to Mrs. Mandy for holding down the fort while I was gone! ❤️
For letter L: We learned all about letters you use to spell and letters you send in the mail! We wrote letters to friends and did some fun letter centers!
We did a mystery letter hunt! The kids had to paint over each square to reveal the letter! Then we played “write the room” where the kids had to go all around the room to find letters that were hidden! They had to trace the letters that they found!
The next day we had letter stations!
Station 1: Grab Bags
grab a letter out of the bag and color the letter you find!
Station 2: Alphabet Puzzles!
Station 3: Flashlights!
The students got to use a “flashlight” to find letters!
Station 4: Go Fish!
The students got to ”fish” for letters! They had to tell me every letter they caught! ❤️

My favorite ornaments. Their little handprint as the stable with Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in the middle 💚❤️

Looking forward to a well deserved Christmas break, but I must say that part of me wishes I was getting ready to go back to work tomorrow! I reckon that’s how you know you love your job! 😉

We made so many fun Christmas crafts. We made nativity ornaments, candy canes, edible
Christmas trees with Mrs. Rebecca, and more! ❤️💚

J is for Jesus! 🥳
We celebrated the birthday boy this week! We did all kinds of crafts of baby Jesus and even worked on patterns by coloring a candy cane! Of course, I snuck some Christmas crafts in there too! We did a nativity sticker scene and focused on name recognition by making cookies for Santa! 🍪❤️💚

I is for Ice!
We learned all about the states of matter this week!
We read Sneezy the Snowman and learned about solid, liquid, and gases! We learned what the particles look like in each form! We conducted a science experiment where we took a snowman of ice and melted him to a liquid, then boiled him to a gas! These little scientists made a hypothesis and got it right! ☃️
We finished by having some fun and making some penguins ice skate! 🐧❄️🧊