Tuesday!

We are working on a book about what we like to do at school, sorting letters, completing sentences and illustrating them, listening to great stories with good describing words and quotations and question marks, singing and moving, reading "Bob" books out loud, and having lots of fun at recess.....

Monday!

It was a very busy Monday!  Your children are doing so well with the daily routine....they got right down to business getting everything done!

We read a book "Sam and the Lucky Money" about a boy who gave money to a homeless man he met.  We had a talk about how we could help someone and I mentioned to the kindergartners that Helpline is all out of cold cereal and needs more.  If you can, please let your kindergartner help shop to buy a box of cereal to donate to Helpline!  Thanks!


Here are those shining faces....

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We read books about snow and talked about how no two snowflakes are alike....

Friday!!!!

We had a fun-packed day as we celebrated Chinese New Year with our reading buddy class.  It was pretty wonderful how everything went....and it wasn't even that loud in here!  Thanks you to all of the parents who helped - you were amazing!!!

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Thursday...

We worked on on "Important" portraits today...I interviewed the students and asked each what was important about themselves and got some wonderful answers.  The portraits are great also!

Next Friday, February 3rd, from 5:30 to 7:00 is the P.T.O.'s Annual Bingo Night!!!  You can come and play and eat pizza!!!!!  Forms will be sent home tomorrow with an order list for food.


Thank you to all of the families who purchased books from the Book Fair for our classroom!!!!!  We LOVE to read around here!

We will have a Chinese New Year crafting party with our 3rd grade reading buddies tomorrow...should be fun!  They will help the kindergartners with their projects and our kindergartners will teach them how to do Tangrams!

Getting the classroom ready....

Wednesday!

Here are your BRILLIANT children working on their journals....

 

Tuesday!!

We are working on lots of Chinese New Year projects and are reading some great books!  

We have been learning about "Quotation Marks", Exclamation Marks!!!!!! and identifying if a book is fiction or nonfiction.  We are also talking about how to use what we already know to learn new information from a nonfiction book.

In math we practiced counting quantities between 10 and 20, explored counting strategies in relation to 5's and 10's and we ordered and compared quantities from least to most.  Here is one way we practiced this....

School....Yay!!!!!!!

Wow.....what a crazy snow week.....it was beautiful and a bit too long!  Hope you had fun with your children in the snow. 

There is a Book Fair happening at Blakely.  You may pop in after school on Tuesday and Wednesday to purchase books with your students.  It is a fund-raiser for the library with 50% of the profits going to Blakely.  Our class knows all about it because the very colorful truck filled with books parks and unloads right outside our windows!

We have Chinese students visiting Blakely for this week and the timing couldn't be more perfect since today is Chinese New Year!  It's the Year of the Dragon (that's my year)!  The six-year-old students are Roosters and the five-year-olds are Dogs!  We will be celebrating all week and have a party this Friday......any one want to volunteer from 8 to 10???

We missed Specialist to go to the Fourth Grade Concert.  A wonderful production!  The students did some Filipino Tinikling Bamboo Dancing.  When we came back to the class we watched a video and tried it ourselves!  Here are those kindergartners running, hopping, around with a little bit of pushing....oops!

A great day was had by all....

Tuesday!

We started learning about Chinese New Year, which is this Monday!  It will be the year of the dragon.  Your darling children are roosters or dogs!

We did Tangrams, and followed the rules; You have to use all 7 pieces, the pieces must touch at least one other piece, and you can't overlap any pieces...

Practicing for our big concert....

 

Friday!!!!!!

Loved this....

Thursday!!!!

Another busy day in kindergarten!!!  Jeffrey brought in "Chicken Soup" for snack.......you will want to ask your child what "Chicken Soup" is...  We decided to make patterns with our snack - and not those easy ABABABABAB patterns but more complex ones like ABCABCABC or AABBAABBAABB!  Then the students took turns using KINDERGARTNERS to make patterns!!  Next they made up three different patterns with the Unifix cubes (that Ms. Keller DUMPED all over the floor) and recorded them on paper.  After all these pattern activities the students shared what they noticed.  I noticed that they are becoming amazing mathematicians!!

Here is our Peace bulletin board....

 

Half Day!

Thanks for all of the snacks...

These kindergartners will sort them, count them, make patterns with them and eat them!!!!

We continue with some wonderful Martin Luther King discussions.  I have been sharing many great books.  Our favorites are "Happy Birthday Martin Luther King", and "This is the Dream".
It's has been wonderful sharing the great message of peace with these amazing kindergartners!

Tuesday...

Another beautiful day in Room 2!!!!!  We are having deep discussions about Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he worked for peace.  These kindergartners are really listening.  They are certainly ready for lessons on social justice! 

 Kindergarten work.......

Monday!

Hey, hey, the gang's all here....

 

Friday!

We made it through the first week of the new year!!!!!!! 

Music is always fun......a little break after working hard learning songs....

Thursday...

We started off the day like a circus......

We had visitors from the ZinZanni Institute for Circus Arts teaching us some tricks during our 8:00 PE time!

Here are the kindergartners with their 3rd grade reading buddies.....lots of reading going on around here! 

More circus photos and evidence of kindergartners working very hard at math tubs!