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Thursday!!!!!

A wonderful day......

Reading buddies...

We read the "Polar Express" today and then started talking about another book by the same author Chris Van Allsburg, "Jumanji", after Dan mentioned that he wanted the game.  I showed a portion of the movie (looks scary) and than ran to the library and got the book. We loved it!!!!

Tuesday!

A beautiful day!!  We worked on rhyming, main characters, settings, story problems and solutions, stretching out words to listen to the individual sounds, letter formation, number formation, patterns, and having as much fun as possible while still following the school rules!

Here they are in PE during "Winter Wonderland".....they are "skating", "walking through mountain passes", sliding down "ice", playing hockey, pulling a "sled" and throwing "snowballs"!

Monday!!!

Here are those brilliant kindergartners hard at play.....which is their work!

Here we are trying to "beat the clock" while we match rhyming pictures...

Everyone loves our "Wall of Gingerbread People"!

Friday!!!!!!

Wow.....it's getting a little crazy around here!  We are working hard to be good friends and always use kind words!  Anticipation of the holidays is keeping it interesting.......

We watched a video about the lunar eclipse happening tomorrow - thanks to Jeffrey for letting us know!  At 6:05 AM the setting moon should look pinkish to red!  Here is a link for more information:  pink moon

Here is our Taiko drumming experience from yesterday.... 

In this one, someone in our class got a turn!

Thursday...

A great day!  We are reading so many wonderful books while learning about characters, settings, problems and solutions.  These kindergartners are SO smart!!!!

We had an assembly with Taiko drummers from Japan!

Here is the video from our gingerbread day.....

 

Half Day!

We had a wonderful morning making gingerbread men, boys, pirates, girls, aliens,
and cow folk!  A huge thank you to Jeffrey's mom for all of her help!  It was really fun.  The best part was walking around the school trying to find the run-away cookies.  Ms. Tjemsland , Ms. Pool, Ms. Hawkins, and Mr. Ande were so sweet helping us to find the missing cookies!  Mr. Ande let us interrupt a big meeting with district staff to tell him about our "emergency"!

I am still working on this slide show....the video portion is cut short and I hope to fix it so you can see the entire thing!  Here is the link:  http://animoto.com/play/683KQJ0ea3t0OYElpPgm0g

Tuesday

The minutes of the day fly by.  Just know that it's pretty wonderful around here even though your darling children are a bit hyper!  Ask your kindergartner what a cutlass is......

 

Monday!

We continue with our quest to read the best gingerbread boy / girl book.  Today it was "The Gingerbread Cowboy".  We liked that there was a coyote instead of a fox!.  Tomorrow it will be "The Gingerbread Cowboy"!!!!  We will be making our won gingerbread people on Wednesday!

Here is one reason I love my job.......working with children like these!!!!!!

Wednesday!!!!!!

We stayed busy with more gingerbread books.  Our favorite so far is "The Gingerbread Girl".  I started tracing kindergartners so they could paint a life-size gingerbread person!

Here are some photos from Music.....

Tuesday!

An amazingly wonderful day with the best kindergartners in the world!!!!

 

 

Monday!

Wow, these kindergartners were SO happy to see each other today...............it was hard to get them quiet!!!!!  

I did get them quiet while they were working on the skill of copying print from the board....

We started reading Gingerbread boy / baby books and will add on girl/ cowboy, etc.  Next week we will make and bake our very own cookies!  I would love any contributions of candy that works for gingerbread people.  Thanks!

Wednesday

Our stone soup feast was a success!  We gathered with a hundred other students and sat down and ate the food we all prepared!  it was all very sweet.  Thank you for making sure your child had some lunch to eat along with the soup.  I will post pictures after they get "okayed" by the other teachers.

Pavel's mom brought eggnog and most of us were eager to have a drink!

Here is what I am thankful for.....having the opportunity to spend each day with your lovely children - I am not kidding!  I absolutely LOVE my job as a kindergarten teacher and want to thank all of the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, for the work you have done to create thoughtful, smart, funny and always exuberant children!

Tuesday...

Whew, did we stay busy today!

After ANOTHER story of "Stone Soup" we got ready to make our own!  There was lots of dumping and stirring as these enthusiastic kindergarten chefs combined ingredients...

The kindergartners made turkeys using paper pattern block pieces...
 

We collected lots of food for Helpline House...

The rest of the day flew by.....