Kindergarten Creativity

Artists at work on the Promethean Board during Centers Time.

Reindeer
Santa tree

A close-up of our door

Mrs. Moro's work of art.

More reindeer with our own handprints.

Just a few random videos

Haley and Aiden reading their sentences. I tried to trick them because they all expected for it to say, "Humpty Dumpy sat on a wall."

Spin A Number Math game on the Promethean Board

Ben and Jingles House visits

Taylor

Micah

Alayna

Haley

The students (and I) are really loving hearing about all the adventures of our classroom elves. The pictures you guys are adding are priceless :)

I've been busy....

The holidays are coming quickly this year and I have been spending every free second getting my Christmas items together for my daughters :) Please forgive me for not updating the blog in a while...I have quite a few posts coming your way!

The Swann Girls

Our Tuesday

Mrs. Moro has been out for awhile and came back ready to start decorating! She had some assistance with our class holiday tree.

Adding the finishing touches.

Engaged in a lesson. Our kiddos are such good listeners!

We are learning the letter Hh this week and are practicing reading and reciting this nursery rhyme. Today we did a letter and sight word hunt throughout the poem.

We also made this cute puppets to help act out the rhyme.

We celebrate and learn about all the holidays this month. Here are some of our Hanukkah decorations.

We have quite a few birthdays this month.

The Kindergarten Hallway all decorated :) Great job Mrs. Moro!!

Our room :)

Santa is always watching!

We have also welcomed 2 new "students" into our classroom.

We had a class vote to pick names and discussed graphs a little bit more.

Meet Jingles and Ben. They will be coming home next week instead of Fred the Frog (he will be on vacation)!

The gift of caring

Mrs. Henry (our guidance counselor) taught the students a lesson on caring and sharing today. They listened to a story about a town where the bells would ring everytime someone did something nice. The bells were constantly ringing! The students were able to act out their parts during the story.

Your child came home today with a bell sheet. Each time they do something nice around the house (clean-up, play well with siblings, etc) they are to color in one of the small bells. Once their sheet is all filled, please send it back to school and Mrs. Henry has a surprise for them :)

Mrs. Henry also left me a website to follow up the lesson that you can check out at home:

http://wedolisten.com

Getting back into the swing of things

We played another dice rolling game to review our sight words.

For "really" big mistakes, we can use this eraser :)

We just started using these sight word rings. I call students to my back table randomly throughout the day to read their words to me. Every time they are able to identify the sight word, they get a "dot" on that card.

I also let them pick what shape they wanted their ring booklets to be.

This is another family favorite book!

Ask your child if they can retell it for you and if they remember what Dogzilla is scared of in our story.

Fine motor skills practice in Centers.

This week we have also talked about the term "estimation" and that it means a "good guess." We used non-standard measurement items (like cubes) to estimate how tall things were in our classroom.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We just couldn't contain our excitement down the hallway to the cafeteria for our HUGE feast!

CHEESE!!!!
The first one to brave our soup that we cooked all day yesterday :)

I promise he did have a good time :)

Brooke's Mom was in charge of the craft for this party! She collected pinecones around her neighborhood and the kids had a blast making their turkeys.

Fred liked posing with a turkey.

Thanks again to all the parent support for our party! A BIG thank you to Taylor's Mommy and Brooke's Mommy :) We couldn't have done it without all of you guys :) Enjoy your long break with family!!