A peek into Young 5's

Take a look below to see what we have been up to in Young 5's.... 

This year Young 5's is teaming up with Mrs. Vander Vennen's 5th grade class.  For the first time meeting with our buddies, the 5th graders did a skit about an apple.  The skit was entitled, "The Little House with No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside." 

After the skit we made apples with our buddies.  

Here is a picture of the apples hanging in our Young 5's room.  

October bring us a new God's Big Word.  This month we are talking about Self- Control.  The verse that accompanies this word is Proverbs 25-28. (The Message) 

Each week Miss Ver Woert puts a new letter on our door.   As we go in and out of our room, we give it a BIG high 5 and say the letter name and sound.

It sure was fun to bubble paint for letter Bb.  

We continued to learn about our classmates this week by charting our hair color. Through charting, we learned about tally marks and what to do when we reach 5.  

To kick off our Jungle unit, we made an 'I Wonder' board.  Together we brainstormed what we wonder about the jungle.

After reading, Verdi,  we created a patterned snake.  

To answer some of the questions on our 'I Wonder' board, we went on a safari.  On the safari we found and learned about several jungle animals.  Our binoculars helped us spot the animals from far away.  

Jaguar

Gorilla 

Monkey

Toucan 

Jungle Python Snake 

Tree Frog

(Sloth- not pictured) 

Our first two weeks

Our first two weeks of school have been very busy for our Young 5's friends.  We have enjoyed making new friends, learning about our room, and the specials teackers.  Both Miss Van Vels and I are loving this class and having lots of fun with them.  Here is a look at what we have been up to. 

We read A My Name is Alice and did a cute craft to go along with it.  This craft had us exploring our names and our peers names.  We also put our fine motor skills to work, painting our names with q-tips.  

We read Miss Nelson is Missing when we talked about classroom routines and promises.  We used a diagram to explore ways we could keep our classroom safe and help us learn.  

Here is our diagram and the classroom promises we made. 

Using the chart below we took a look at how our friends get home after school each day.  We used the graph to discover how many boys and girls are in our class, too.  

God's Big Words:

This month our big word is, Kindness.  We read Amos McGee's Sick Day at the Zoo to help us recognize kindness.  We also read the story of the Good Samaritan. 

We had a fantastic week with your child.  Thank you for sharing!

Miss Ver Woert and Miss Van Vels 

Welcome to Young 5's

Welcome to Young 5's!  

Wow!  Has the summer flown by.  I hope you have had a wonderful summer and spent time enjoying the outdoors.   I have spent my summer heading up north on the weekends and having fun in Little Sprouts during the week.       

This year, I will be using this blog to share pictures and for communications.  This blog will also house the Sign Up Genius for the weekly Art Helper and Mystery Reader.  Please use the link below to sign the sign up to be a helper.  Thank you!

Young 5's Sign Up Genius

I will be sharing more information about this blog at the Open House.  

See you soon! :) 
Miss Ver Woert