Meet Fred the Frog

My oldest daughter came home from school earlier this week with a new type of writing assignment for her homework. She had a stuffed animal dragon and a journal. "Poof" the dragon was able to have a sleep-over at our house and my daughter was able to write about his experience in the journal. She really loved it!! I thought our class would also like to try something like this (although adapted for 5 year olds instead of 8 year olds).

So, please meet Fred :)

Each night one student will be coming home with Fred, a family note, and a writing journal. Please help your child write in the journal about the things they did with Fred. They need to return everything back to school the following day and will be able to share their experiences with our Kindergarten friends :)
This is the first time I am trying something like this with our class and I really hope it turns out to be a positive learning experience for everyone! I know I am excited about it!! Thanks again to Mrs. Duke for the fantastic idea!!!

A few pictures

We sorted letter cookies and discussed their beginning sounds.

We also incorporated Math and talked about how we had created a graph, which letter had the greatest amount, which letter had the least amount, and which letters were equal!

We discussed ordinal positions and sang a pumpkin song to help reinforce placement.

Fundraiser

Your child will be coming home soon with an artwork packet. Our school is doing a really neat fundraiser where you can have your child's artwork placed on pillowcases, flags, coasters, etc! Here is what we had each child do in our classroom and you can choose to use it and order something from the catalog if you would like :)

Turtles, turtles everywhere!!!

Some pictures from today

We are learning the letter Tt this week. This is a really cute tiger story.

I found these pumpkin lights at Target this weekend. They were a big hit with students!
Everyone wanted to get in the picture.

Mrs. Henry, our guidance counselor, visited the class today for a lesson. This is the assignment that she had them complete.

An action shot of Mrs. Henry :)

Pete the Cat

Here are some cute pictures of my Kindergarten scholars sorting in their Word Study notebooks.

And....

this is Pete the Cat. We all LOVE this story (and the song). To download the free song, go to this website www.harpercollinschildrens.com/petethecat and click on "I Love My White Shoes." Thanks again Richie for sharing with us :)

Our Kindergarten Mascots

I keep forgetting to take a picture of our M&M people for the blog. Mrs. Moro decorates them festively for each month. The students love looking at them and they know to always "look for the M&Ms" if they forget which room is ours :)