Grandparent's Day!!

Hi everyone!!
I just realized that I left a couple pictures out for our Grandparent's Day video. I feel awful!! I hope you enjoy our edited video:) Have a great night!!

How I Became a Pirate!!

We had a parent reader today and we loved reading about pirates!!! Thank you so much to Taylor's dad for coming and reading us such a great story!! You rock!!

Love the story!!

Taylor loves his dad!!

Thank you!!! 

GREAT story!!!

Going Fast!!

This week we will be finishing up Unit One in Math and will be taking our first math assessment, and it will be exciting! We have been practicing writing our numbers, drawing objects to show different numbers, counting objects, connecting dots in counting order, and finding objects that are the same and different!

We will also be finishing up one of my favorite units – American Symbols! We loved learning about the symbols and especially the constitution – we just have a few more left to finish up our symbols book! We have been referring  back to our kindergarten constitution and know that we always need to do our best to make our classroom the best that it can be! I am looking forward to seeing your family constitutions as well! A video from our symbols unit and Constitution Day will hopefully be coming this week sometime! Also if you are in the school building towards the end of this week please check out our hallway display featuring some of our projects, but don’t worry it will be up for awhile- once it finally gets up!

In Literacy we will be talking about our senses! We will read “Senses at the SeaShore” and “A Feast of the Senses” and in our crabby book we will read “Sam Can See” and “I Can See”. And if you haven’t guessed it yet – our new word will be “see” and we will be focusing on the letter S! Our vocabulary words that we will discuss are explore, senses, feast, finished, and kneads. We will continue to work on blending sounds together to make words and finding sounds in the beginning, middle, and at the end of words.

In writing we will continue to work on adding details and words to our stories. We will also be working on using turtle talk and our alphabet chart to sound out words! We are becoming great writers and I have been able to conference with a few friends each day to talk specifically about their writing! I can't wait to show you what your kindergartener is doing in writing at conferences in just a few short weeks!

Remember parent teacher conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, October 6th and Thursday October 8th and you had the opportunity to sign up for these at open house! But please know I will be sending home your specific date and time soon!

What another fun week we have ahead of us! Thank you all for initialing your child's kindergarten folder every night and for returning it- I hope you are enjoying it and finding it useful!

The Wild Little Horse

We had our very first parent reader today and we all LOVED it!! Jackson's mom came and read to us today and we loved hearing the story about horses..it went great with our literacy unit this week!! If you want to sign up to read please e-mail me...we have parent readers every Friday!!

Enjoy the pictures.

We LOVE this story!!

My mom rocks!!

Thank You!!! 

Great story!!

Happy Birthday Jackson!!

Today we celebrated our FIRST birthday in our classroom!! We were all super excited because we even had a birthday elf named Twinkle visit!!! It took a while for us to see him. He has been visiting my classroom for the last couple of years to celebrate holidays and birthdays!! We read a book about Twinkle and learned that he is ALWAYS watching to make sure we are following Meadow Lane expectations. We also know we can NOT touch him or he will lose his magic!! The kindergarten friends all took turns telling words that described Jackson and they came up with some GREAT ones!! We said he was fun, funny, nice, a rock star, awesome, smart, and many more!! We put those words together and made a sign for him so he will always remember his birthday in kindergarten!! Twinkle even left him lots of confetti (it was messy!) and a birthday hat!! He is SUPER awesome. Thanks for the pencils and erasers Jackson...we LOVED them and we HOPE You have a fantastic night!! Here are some pictures of our day!! Also, thanks to mom and dad for visiting for lunch...the Burger King food looked yummy!!

Confetti AND a hat!!

Twinkle with the birthday sign!!

lunch with mom and dad!!

Singing to our birthday friend!!

Happy Birthday Jackson!!!

Fun week!!

We are moving right along in the literacy department! We are starting week 2 of Unit 1 and our essential question is “How do baby animals move?” We will be reading and listening to some great stories called “Pouch”, “Baby Animals on the Move” and we will also read a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. For shared reading (in the crabby book) we will read “We Can” and “I Can, We Can” and then during guided reading when your child comes over to me at the rainbow table they will be either reading “Hop!” or “We Hop!” We are really starting to understand our guided reading routine and it is awesome to see how well they are doing with it!

We are also going to be learning the word “we” this week and focusing on the letter “a” and the sound it makes and where we hear the “a” sound in words! We will continue to work on blending sounds together to make words! Our new vocabulary words that we will be learning are: adventure, movement, arrived, exciting, and exhausted.

During writing we will continue to talk more about nouns and will keep finding nouns in sentences. I know it is crazy - nouns!! Your kindergarten will soon be able to tell you that a noun is a person, place, or thing or even an animal if they can’t already! This week is actually a very big week in writing because up until now your child has been telling stories orally and drawing pictures to go with their story – but this week we are going to learn how to label our pictures and use turtle talk to sound out the words we want to write and also how to use our alphabet chart to help us during writing time! I am very excited to see what writing has in store for our classroom this week!

In Math this week we will continue to explore numbers 1-10 with our counting mats and daily math routines and learn how to make that tricky number 5. We will also learn how to dot-to-dots with straight lines to make an object (the tricky part about this is starting at the number 1 and going in counting order).   We will also be practicing drawing groups of numbers and learning more about shapes and how to make them! We are really enjoying learning about 2 and 3 dimensional shapes! I am also so happy to see all of the homework coming back to school – the kids get super excited every time I hand homework out so I am sure hoping the enthusiasm to do homework is still there when your child gets home! A homework routine is a great thing to start in kindergarten when they enjoy it! Even on days when there is not an actual paper homework please utilize the resources you have at home in your child’s kindergarten folder to keep practicing the skills we are working on!

We are continuing to learn more about our American Symbols – we still have a lot to learn about. But this Thursday, Sept. 17^th is a super fun day for our country – it is Constitution Day! We will be learning about what the constitution is and why we have it and we will also be making our very own Kindergarten Constitution and I am hoping all of my friends will agree to it and sign it so we can have a successful school year. On this day we will be doing lots of fun crafts and you will be getting home our first family project where you will have the opportunity to create your own Family Constitution – so please look for this on Wednesday! We are really enjoying learning about our country and we are very proud to live here! On Constitution Day again please have your child wear red, white, and/or blue!

Picture Day is Wednesday, Sept. 16^th – please turn in your papers if you would like to order pictures!

I hope your child was excited about their kindergarten folder on Friday night – I am hoping this will be a great communication tool that we can use and will help keep important papers organized! Any important note I will be sending home will be in your child’s kindergarten folder and all other important notes from the office and your child’s work will still be put in your child’s Wednesday folder. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! It is going to be another fun week in kindergarten! 

Sorry this is late!!

Happy Grandparent's Day!!

We want to say HAPPY GRANDPARENT'S DAY to some special people in our lives. The kindergarten kiddos all really love their grandparent's a ton!!!!! They love to stay over, go places, eat food, and play with you!! You are all so special and I hope that you enjoyed your project we made for you. Please enjoy our video and ENJOY your day!! You all ROCK!!! (some of our video pictures may look familiar!!)

Patriot Day

Today we wore red, white, and blue to honor all of the men and women who have fought for and protected our country. We talked about how AWESOME our country is and how we should be proud of all of these special people. We STAND TALL for America and we made a project to show our appreciation. We hope you enjoy our video!!