House of Krause: This Week in JK

Dakota Prairie Museum Visits

Miss Mary was with us again this week for an hour on Thursday. She taught us how to be mini museum workers. She gave us each artifacts found here in SD! We had to wear gloves to protect the artifacts while we cleaned, measured, and weighed them. It wasn't until the end when Miss Mary let us know what each of our artifacts was. Some were pieces of broken pots used to cook food. Others were rocks or bones made into tools like knives, sharpeners, and arrowheads.

Miss Mary helped us weigh the artifacts and record our results.

Our Favorite Books This Week
We made patchwork elephants in art to go along with Elmer the Elephant book series. Our patchwork elephants had to be colored with four colors of our choice making sure no two colors touched. It took some careful concentration, but we think they turned out great.

Science

We learned about vocabulary words "roll" and "slide" as students tested out how different objects moved down a ramp.

SDSU Student

You'll notice an SDSU student in the background of a few of our pictures this week. All students in the early childhood program at SDSU are required to put in 15 hours of service work in an early childhood classroom. We were excited to have Miss Withers join us for a few days.

Rr is for Rainbow

Students learned about rainbows this week. We learned about the colors of the rainbow and how a little sunlight and a few water droplets is all that is needed to make a rainbow. Here, students are working on a colored rice project.