We Are Busy Learning

We have had a fun couple of weeks learning about our presidents and community helpers. This past week each of the students made a card to be sent to our military in Afghanistan. I was so proud of each of their efforts they really put a lot of time and thought into their cards. The next few weeks our theme will be Dr. Seuss! I think the students will really have fun with this.

I am so pleased with their journal writing. They are really trying hard to sound out words and they are becoming writers. Encourage your child to sound out words and remember they do not have to be spelled correctly at this point. They should be writing what they hear. Here are a few examples of what a kindergarten student may write: police-pls, nurse-nrs, doctor-dotr or doctr. If they write something for you just ask them to read it to you and then get so excited and say I knew that is what it said I just wanted to hear you read it. Right now we want to build their confidence as readers and writers. The correct spelling will come soon.

Once again, thanks so much for sharing your children with me. I am blessed to be at such a great school with such awesome students and parents. I love teaching your children! :)

Farm Animals

Kindergarten teachers are looking for farm animals to come to school. If you know of anyone or a company that can bring farm animals to school please let me know. Thanks

You Did It!!

The students brought 145 items to donate to the Infant Crisis Center. This was a fun way for us to count to 100 and the students were so excited to be giving to some babies in need. Thank you so much for making our 100 collection a success. Sorry the pictures are so small. I went to photo bucket and my computer kept telling me it was not a safe website. I will try to make the pictures larger at a later date.

OOPS!

Sorry parents! I said I would post pictures this weekend of our items for the Infant Crisis Center but I left my camera at home Friday. I will take pictures Monday and load them here Monday night. Sorry for the delay. I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.

Valentine's Party

We will have our Valentine's party on Friday, February 12th. Please do not send Valentine's until that day. There are 19 students in the morning class and 20 in the afternoon. Please have your child sign their cards but do not put names on the outside. We will take turns delivering the mail on Friday morning and the students will open them at their party.

Thank you so much for sending all the wonderful things for us to decorate our Valentine's sacks with. If you are out and can pick up a bag of conversation hearts we will be using them for graphing and many other things this coming week. If you signed up to help with the party you will be hearing from a home room mom soon.

We have reached our goal for the Infant Crisis Center! We have over 100 items to donate and the students are so excited!!! I will have them picked up at the end of this week and I will try to post pictures this weekend.

Thanks so much for being such wonderful supportive parents.

Finally!

I am not much of a writer so please do not judge me by my writing skills. I am simply taking time to blog so you can stay informed of what is going on in class and hopefully check out some fun pictures of your children. I hope you find this helpful and if you have any suggestions please feel free to share them with me. I will try to take time each week to update my post but I will not make any promises there.
This coming week we will celebrate Groundhog day and our 100th day of school. We will not have a 100th day celebration we will just celebrate all week. Thank you to all who have donated items for the Infant Crisis Center. I think we have 70 items and we were going for 100. We talked in class the other day about, what if we do not get 100 items. I asked the students if that would be bad? Of course they thought it was bad if we did not get 100 things. That led to a great conversation about giving. That even if we collected just a few items we would be making a difference for some babies that needed things. I assured them that we were just trying to collect 100 items so we could count 100 things. I told them the Infant Crisis Center would be thankful for just 1 item if that is all we had. They quickly got excited about the 70 items we would be able to donate. We will be collecting items through this coming week.
I want to assure you that I have no idea who has brought items and who has not. As a parent myself I know first hand that you are always being asked to give. Buy things for fund raisers, buy items for the class, give of your time etc. I know it is always something. So, please know that I never want you to feel obligated because I really do not keep up with any of it!
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Just taking a few minutes to stay updated on your child's class is making a difference in their education. Please pass the word on to other parents in the class about the blog. Enjoy your time at home snowed in!