Christmas time is almost here!!

We have been having so much fun in Kinder doing Holiday activities!!  We use holiday words in our writing, make fun crafts, and read some wonderful holiday books.  Look at some of the things we've done!!

Happy Veteran's Day!!

Kindergarten was so lucky today to get the chance to talk to a real veteran!!  My friend, Mr. Rhyan, came today to give the kids a chance to ask him some questions about the military, and speak to them about being a soldier.  They were so excited, and asked some really great questions!!  Thanks Rhyan!!

Silly Kindergarten!!

The past few weeks have been super busy in Kindergarten, so we got to have a silly day today!!  We read a story about a beaver who ate his stick house, and wrote silly sentences about living in a house made of food.  The pictures turned out super cute, and we did a great job as writers by sounding out our words.  Then we made our very own beaver out of shapes!!  Kindergarten is so silly!!

We discovered that we were watch twins!!

Our trip to the farm...

What a fun day we had out at the farm!!  We were able to pet a bison, a zebra, some horses, and a big, fat pig!!  Some of us also had a chance to milk a real live cow!!  There was so much to see and do.  We took a hayride, and even got to take home our very own pumpkins!!  KINDERGARTEN LOVES THE FARM!!

And more pictures to come from the AWESOME parents that came to help!!

  

Football Reader!!

We are so excited to have a Panther football player come every Friday and read to our class!!  The kids love to visit with and listen to the players as they read us a story and answer any questions that we may have about football and "the big high school".  This is such a great program that the coaching staff has put together, and the kids really enjoy it!!  Go Panthers!!

Daily Five!!

This year we have started using the Daily 5 reading and language arts program in our Kindergarten classroom.  I have been so thrilled with how we are doing.  Daily 5 consists of 5 reading/writing choices that the kids get to choose.  They may go to Read-To-Self, Work-On-Writing, Read-To-Someone, Working-With-Words, and Listen-To-Reading.  While the students are working in the area of their choice, that frees me us to work with small reading and writing groups.  So far we have had a lot of fun, and I have already seen some improvements in the some of the writing.  Way to go Kindergarten!!

Read-To-Self

Work-On-Writing

Color hunt!!

Our class has gone on a color hunt!!  We used our "special safari glasses" to spot all the different colors that we have learned about this year.  Take a look at some of what we found!!

Red hunt...

Yellow hunt...

Blue hunt...

And... Purple too!!

Colors!!

We have been working the last couple weeks on our colors and color words.  So for math, we sorted our math tubs into color groups!!  We had so much fun working with a partner, and putting colors into groups. It seems that we are a group of color and sorting experts!!

Ask your kindergartner to sort some things at home!!  They could use buttons, mixed beans, stickers, or noodles.  Have fun!!

Reminders!!

Just a few quick reminders...

- Please don't forget that Homecoming is this Friday, and we have an early release day.  Please make sure your student has a ride in place.

- Kindergarten parent night is TONIGHT at 6:30 in the cafeteria!!

There is a lot of fun things coming up in the next few weeks, so please make sure to check your student's folder every day.  Thanks parents, and have a wonderful week!!

Learning our letters!!

In kindergarten we have many fun ways to learn our letters!!  This week we have been working on the letter "Ii".  We know an "Ii" song, made an "Ii" book, and brainstormed lots of "Ii" words.  We even got to use shaving cream to practice writing our "Ii"!!

The first week was super!!

I am so excited about this year in Kindergarten!!  We are going to have so much fun together!!  We have been learning about rules, and getting to know both the building and our new friends.  We have a WONDERFUL group of kiddos, and we are going to learn so much!!  I hope everyone had a great first week, and get ready for many more!!

Take a look at my cutie-pie new friends!!

Meet the teacher!!

So meet the teacher was a success!!  We have (as of right now) 15 little cutie kiddos!!  Almost everyone came, so I got to meet all but two of our new friends.  I sure do think that we will have an awesome Kinder year.  I can't wait to see all my little ones on Monday!!

Getting ready for the school year!!

There is officially 19 days until school starts!!  Ahh!!  There is so much to do to get ready for this year.  I moved rooms, and I'm starting the looping process this year.  I'm so excited to have this coming class for the next two years, and we'll have a lot of fun together!!  Get excited for Kindergarten!!