On Friday, we finished our study on letter Dd. We celebrated by eating DIRT pudding. It has chocolate pudding, oreos, and a gummy worm. Thank you to Dylan Smith's family for providing it for our students. The kiddos definitely enjoyed that tasty treat and it was a nice wrap up to learning letter Dd! 

Thank you! What fun!

On Friday, we also began a mini-unit on the Four Season. We made our own book that was sent home in your child's backpack on Friday. Help them read it to you and discuss the seasons. They learned a song that we will continue to sing this coming week. Ask them about it. It goes to the tune of This Old Man. Here are the lyrics:

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
There are seasons four in all.
Weather changes, sun and rain and snow
Leaves fall down and flowers grow.

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

There are seasons four in all.

Look outside and you will see

Just what season it will be.

Have a great weekend! Your child is such a joy to have in class! 

Family Celebration Recap..

Thank you to all the families who were able to come and celebrate Thanksgiving with us, Kindergarten style! We had an incredible turn out of 234 people! Wow! Thank you for all your support as together we help instill the love for learning in your children.

Here are a few pictures from our carry in and performance.

Goodbye Miss Hart!

Goodbye Miss Hart!

Miss Hart is Miss Workman's student teacher. Our kindergarten classes work together on activities almost weekly. Our class has really gotten to know Miss Hart and will miss her. Yesterday, (Friday, Nov. 9), our classes celebrated Miss Hart's last day with a Root Beer Float party!

What's our letter of the week? Rr!

Enjoying some yummy root beer floats with our friends! 

Miss Workman & Mrs. Carpenter's class being silly!

Group Hug!

Mrs. Carpenter's class with Miss Hart. We will miss you!

Fall Party!

Fall Party!

Lined up and ready for the school costume parade! 

In the hallway showing the school our cute costumes!

Making skeletons out of Q tips! Thank you room parents for coming up with such fun activities!

Kids at work...

Thanks for all your help parents, the kids sure enjoyed the party!

Theodore, Alvin, and Simon Chipmunk!
What a successful fall party!

Pink Week!

This week we have been learning all about bats, spiders, singing Itsy Bitsy Spider and so much more. The color we are celebrating is Pink! On Pink Day, Wednesday we got to chew BUBBLE GUM (sugarless ;)) because it's pink and I turned it into an academic activity. We made a portrait of ourselves blowing bubbles. We graphed who could and could not blow a bubble and analyzed the data. We also got to eat pink vortman cookies and drink pink lemonade!

Making our self-portraits!

We had our vortman cookies outside before recess and
pink lemonade after music class! What a treat!

Can you blow a bubble? Ask your child if they could!

Our school is lucky enough to have two ipod labs for the grades to share. Today Mrs. Armour, one of our wonderful technology people gave our class a tutorial on the basics of how to use an ipod. We learned how to go "home" on the ipod, about apps (what they are, etc), and how to take pictures using the front and back camera. I tell ya, they were excited to use these! Here is a peek into our Ipod time today..

Maysen, learning how to "swipe" so that it is no longer sleeping. 

Working hard, learning how to take pictures. 

We will use the ipods at least once a week. There is a class set so every child has their own to work on. Next week we will learn how to email the pictures to me, then I can post some here!

 Later in the day, we used shaving cream to write our numbers on the table. Then we began to use a number board to count. We used m&ms to help us! What a treat..

Busy counting away on his number board..

Lots of counting! When we were finished, we sorted by color... then ate of course!

Laila began hugging me at recess and it turned into a massive group hug. Pretty fun, had to share... we love school! Until next time..