Welcome to the new school year! This site is for Mr. Garland's kindergarten class at Zilker elementary. Please check back regularly to keep up with our kindergarten adventures!
We had a great walking field trip to Mr. Natural! The manager Isabell (Mrs. Natural) gave us a great lesson on nutrition and even let us visit the kitchen. We had yummy smoothies and tortillas, too!
Mr. Aziz performed a science experiment for the kinder students! Marcos helped shake up a bottle of soda water and Mr. Aziz released the pressurized fluid.
The cephalothorax and abdomen are the two main body parts of a spider. Spiders are Arachnids and differ from insects (who have three main body parts) in many ways. Ask your child how many legs spiders have? How many eyes? How do they differ from insects?
Here are some pictures of our visiting tarantula...
This week our class is studying spiders. We even have a visiting tarantula in our classroom. Ask your child if he or she can sing you the spider song. Here is a picture Mr. Garland took of some spiders near San Marcos last weekend...