ANOTHER GREAT KINDERGARTEN RODEO

We had our annual Kindergarten Rodeo.  The first thing that we do is to get our picture taken with the Rodeo Queen candidates and some Rodeo Clowns.  What fun!  The queen candidates told us a little about themselves, and the clowns told the kids about protecting the other cowboys.

OVER THE RIVER

A great jump over the river.   We used a couple of jump ropes and started out with the ropes about a foot apart.  We widened the river after all of the class had a chance to jump over. We got those ropes pretty far apart by the end. Great jumpers!

JUST MADE IT

A good landing!  They can jump on the rope and still get another try.

Jumping over the river!

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM A FRIEND

Getting ready to jump over the river.  This Rodeo Queen is helping a couple of the students.

HAPPY TO BE A WINNER

The "winners" pose.

BUCKING BULLS

This event is always a crowd pleaser. The kids pretend that they are riding a bucking bull.  It is a relay also.

Ready, set , go

Get ready to bounce!

Mopping up the balls!

This event involved getting a mop and trying to get a ball into a basket.  Not all that easy!

MOPPING UP

HANGING OUT THE WASH

At this station, the children are hanging up the wash.  All of the events are basically relays, but it really doesn't matter who wins!

A picnic at the ballpark.

We all had a sack lunch at the end of the events.

Cool Down

At the end of the Rodeo, several teachers get out the squirt guns and surprise the kids!  They love it!

Here's everyone with their dinosaur masks on.  I think that they look really fierce!

Now the lava is really coming out because we switched to a can for the inside of the volcano.

We are still using the bottle.

We used a little bottle first. The children liked it, but it wasn't putting the lava out.

The kids are anticipating the volcano activity.  This turned out to be their favorite thing.

These girls made a really nice trap for dinosaurs.

Making a trap for dinosaurs using models.

The dinosaur dig was fun.  We used models of dinosaurs and skeltons of dinosaurs. The children buried and dug-up the dinosaurs. This "dig" was fun!

Making a dinosaur trap.  The students used dinosaur models and blocks to make their traps.

The students are gluing popscicle sticks and toothpicks onto the dinosaur for "bones".

We have been working on a Dinosaur Theme.  We did several activities including dinosaur dig, dinosaur stencils, making a trap for a dinosaur, drawing their own dinosaur and naming it, and making the "bones" on a dinosaur.  The big ending was a volcano.  The children loved this. I could have made that volcano explode over and over. We had a great time with this unit!