100 days celebration

KZE students celebrated 100 days of school on Friday, February 5th. Students came up with ideas to celebrate this important milestone of their learning journey. They made hats with 100 decorations, created pictures with 100 dots/stickers/pompoms, made paper chains with 100 strips, made necklaces with 100 beads, counted 100 words, read 100 words, and wrote 100 words. They all said that they are 100 days smarter because…

Julia: “I am 100 days smarter because I can write stories and do math problems.”
Safir: “I am smarter at math – I can compose and decompose numbers.”
Veronika: “I am better at math – I can count to 100.”
Gabi: “When I came to school I didn’t know too much. Now I can read and write.”
Emmi: “I am 100 days smarter because I can write my own books now.”
Amie: “I have learnt more math and PE, reading and writing. I have learnt a lot of things!”
Nick: “I am 100 days smarter because I can do many new things. I know nearly all my sounds.”
Ada: “When I came to kindergarten I was not so good at math. Now I can do math and I can count to 100.”
Alex: “I am better at reading and writing – I can read really difficult books now.”
Alexandra: “I know how to read and write now and can do more than I could at the beginning of Kindergarten.”
Seok: “I can read more and know my letters.”
Altai: “I am 100 days smarter because I can count to more than 101 and I can count to 1000 in 10s.”
Tomasz: “I am 100 days smarter. On my 1st day of Kindergarten, I just knew a little bit math. But now I know a lot of math like how to compare length, height, and weight.”
Mali: “I am 100 days smarter because I learned so many things in so many days like math and PE. I wasn’t good at drawing and math before. Now I am good at them.”

KZE students not only are 100 days smarter. They continue to grow as reflective learners!!!

It’s OK!!

During our “Who We Are” unit of inquiry, we talked about similarities, differences, and acceptance.  We read the book “It Is OK to be Different” by Todd Parr.  We decided to make our own “It Is OK…” book.  Each student made a page and Mrs. Zurfluh recorded our reading. We decided to make a cover and a back page.  We wanted to make it because we like making books. We also want to let other people know that “It Is OK to be Who You Are”.   It took us three days to make this book.  We like our book.  We would like to share with our parents and other Kindergarten classes.  We are also hoping that we can share our book during one of our assemblies.

http://youtu.be/3SMczGqUyso