Polar express day

We had a great day celebrating Polar Express day! 

Polar express day

We had a great day celebrating Polar Express day! 

Gingerbread houses

We had such a good time planning, designing, building and decorating our gingerbread houses. We created some great memories. Thank you to all who came into help!

Christmas tree

Our classroom Christmas tree.

Chores for Change

The kids are bringing in change they have earned by doing chores. Tomorrow we will be taking five ornaments from the giving tree as our goal to earn money to fulfill the request. It is wonderful to hear them say how good they feel when they share.

Ginger bread man

Retelling the story of the ginger bread man during Daily Five.

Potatoes

We collected 43 boxes if instant mashed potatoes. Here we are delivering them to the bus. Thank you for sharing your blessings with others and allowing your children to learn the value of giving.

Stone soup

We were busy preparing the vegetables for stone soup today. We read different versions of the folktale and watched two versions on the Smartboard and then discussed how the stories were similar and different. Some character actors shared the first Thanksgiving story with us too.

What's Happening

Math.... We are a busy in Math workshop. We are looking for patterns, creating patterns, building patterns. Look for patterns around your home and in the environment. We are  working on counting to 100 by ones and tens. Recognizing numerals 0-10 out of order, writing numbers  and counting numbers to set.

Reading.... We are very busy in Daily Five.  Some students are learning the letters of the alphabet, some letter sounds, some sight words, some decoding words, etc. Every student is working at their level but each is working hard.

Religion- Honesty

Thankful

We have been talking a lot about what we are thankful for this month. Our reading this week during Daily Five was about the things the pilgrims were thankful for and we compared that with the things we are thankful for. We found that even though we were different from the pilgrims we were also very similar in the things we are thankful for.

Veteran's Day

Today the children made thank you cards for our veterans, There were a few veterans at the program today and a few of the kids gave theirs to them. We gave the rest of the cards to Mrs. Flynn (our preschool teacher) to send to her son who is serving and he will hand them out to the other soldiers in his unit. She was very touched by the cards.

Observation walk

During math workshop we took an observation walk through the primary building. The children moved throughout the building noticing things they never did before. They then came back to the iron and wrote down or drew pictures of what they observed. We completed the lesson with a community circle where the children shared with the group.

Discovering pumpkins

We had a great week of discovery with pumpkins. In your child's Friday folder there is the non fiction text we read this week during daily five. Read it with your child and have them tell you what they learned about pumpkins. 

Celebrating our 50th day

We celebrated being in kindergarten for 50 days with a Popsicle! 

Book buddies in action

We are having book buddies with Miiss Hill's second grade class onThursday  afternoons. This is an awesome opportunity to practice Read to. Someone which help with fluency .

Halloween party

.A huge thank you to the room moms who planned the party! It was awesome. Unfortunately the fabulous pictures I took did not upload but here are some from before. Happy Halloween!

Uniforms

Dear Parents of girls, 

Now that the weather is colder the girls are wearing sweats under their jumpers to keep their legs warm . They need to wear leggings instead of sweats per the handbook. Sweats are fine on gym day but not under jumpers. Here is a picture of what the correct uniform will look like with leggings.