Observing Like a Scientist

This week has been gorgeous!  It has been perfect timing for our outdoor safety unit in Science!

 We took our 'cameras' and went outside to capture images of things we observed.

 It turns out there are many, many things outside!  Narrowing it down to just three fantastic ideas was tricky.

 The boys and girls found something they wanted to record, took a pretend picture of it, then drew and labeled it in their photo album.

 Science is a blast!

 Teaching Kindergarten Science is even better!

 When we finished all the work, we took some time to enjoy the beauty of the day!

Meet Gregory!

Gregory is new to K2!

He joined us from another kindergarten class in Houston and we are so thrilled to have him in our class!  He is a polite, sweet, smart and kind boy!

Welcome to K2, Gregory!

We are so glad you are in our class!

The First Few Weeks...

We have been keeping really busy in K2 lately!

We have been... 

doing a lot of hands on activities, 

 to know each other,

acting as cute as can be,

working with math manipulatives,

playing together

and working on our alphabet!

Things are non stop from 8am-3pm, but we love it that way!

I couldn't ask for a better group of sweet kiddos this year!

First Day Fun!

Today was a FABULOUS first day in K2!

 I don't want to jinx anything here, but I never had a first day of Kindergarten go this smoothly!

 We made it outside a few times for some individual and group pictures!

 We are very lucky this year to have a pretty good split between boys and girls!

 On our way to recess practice, Gracie was stopped by her sweet big brother!

 Turns out, there are lots of rules on the Galatas playground.  K2 was very patient to sit and listen to all of them before they went to play!

 Morning recess is the BEST!  It isn't too hot or too sunny and it gets some wiggles out for the rest of our day!

 I LOVE how everyone is so quick to make friends with each other!

 Mrs. Bale, our Gatatas PE teacher, was nice enough to use her planning time to take some class pictures for us!

 We certainly have a good lookin' group!

 Before the day was over, we had time for our first of many, many dance parties!

 A question I ask all the kids on the first day of school...

What do you want to learn about in Kindergarten?

I can only hope I don't let some of them down!

Heres to a GREAT year as a new family of K2 kids!

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