Wow! Monday, March 1st will be our 100th day of Kindergarten! I have some fun things planned for that day! The room is all set just waiting for all of you to come through the door!

Watch out though.......you might have to duck!

Grace the Birthday Girl!

We all enjoyed some hot cocoa!

We watched Mrs. Knauf's 1st graders perform their plays!

Well, the day didn't turn out exactly how we all wanted it, but we still had fun! Our Winter Wonderland Day turned into a Winter Wonderland Inside Day. It was just too cold to go outside today. We started off the day by celebrating Grace's Birthday. Then we were invited to watch Mrs. Knauf's 1st graders rehearse their plays. They were great and K-5 was a great audience! Then we made snowmen, ate donut holes, sipped hot cocoa and enjoyed yummy birthday cupcakes from Grace's mom! Thanks!!!!!!

This week is a short one! We will be working in our Literature Centers and Small Reading Groups on Monday and Tuesday and we will continue to work on our hundreds chart. I would like to have a Winter Wonderland Day on Wednesday. We will finish up the centers and then go outside Wednesday, come back in for some hot cocoa and treats and end the day in Gym. Please dress you child in snow pants, coat, hat, mittens and boots so we all stay warm.

I am looking forward to meeting with you at your child's conference this week. Please review your child's report card and if you have any questions, please feel free to bring those questions to the conference. The conference time slots are only 20 minutes and I want to be respectful of your time and the people scheduled after you, so I do ask that you come on time for your child's conference. Thanks so much!

Today, the students had so much fun counting by 10's, 5's and 2's to 100!  They used all sorts of things!  Look and see......10....20....30.....40....50.....60.....70.....80.....90......100!
The students also read and wrote the room. They all got out their journals and walked around the room and read all the different words up everywhere in the room!  Then they wrote them all down!  Their hand might be sore tonight from all that writing!

Hope you are enjoying this long weekend!

February 16th - 19th:

We will be rereading stories from the theme "Let's Play". As children becomes familiar with a story through repeated readings, they respond to it with more depth and creativity. Last week the class read "David's Drawings". Just like in the book, I started a drawing of a tree and each student in K-5 added something to it. We got very creative! This is our Classroom Picture:

We will be reviewing the sight words: me, for, where, do, you, look, one, see, what and two

We also will review vocabulary words: bound, drooped, joyous, load, steep, thrill, agreed, contribute, fantasy, jolly, spontaneously and versatile

Our letters this week are: "Ww" and "Xx"

We will be reviewing number 10 - 30 and working on Number Patterns. We will be learning about all the patterns that make up the 100 chart. We will be counting by 2's, 5's and 10's and talking more about odd and even numbers.

We will be celebrating 100 days of Kindergarten on March 1st!

What a great day! Our party was so much fun! We started out our day with Ena's Mom coming in and sharing Ena's favorite book. Then we talked about President's Day and then we had our Valentine's Party. We had an Airplane Center, a Candy Necklace Making Center, a Tissue Heart Making Center and a Cookie Frosting Center. Then the students all found a quiet place in the classroom and opened up their Valentine's. Everyone picked a spot. They were in all the corners, under tables and in groups looking at all their Valentine's they got from their friends in K-5. Everyone had a great day!

This week we will be reading the books "I'm a Jolly Farmer" and "David's Drawings". These books show other children using their creativity to make the world a little more beautiful and exciting. K-5 will use their creativity and their imaginations in the Art Center this week. I will start a drawing, just like David did in the book, "David's Drawings" and each student will add to it! I can't wait to see what our class drawing looks like!

Our new sight words are what and two.

Our new vocabulary words are: agreed, contribute, fantasy, jolly, spontaneously, and versatile

We will be working on numbers 10 - 30 and then moving on to Chapter 7: Number Patterns.

Work with your son or daughter at home counting up to 100. Each day the class practices counting to 100 as a group!

Our Valentine's Party will be on Friday, Feb. 12th!

Kalkidan and Grace worked together in Math to put the numbers 0 through 30 in order.

Today, Ena's mom showed the class the first two pieces of art from the Adventures in Art Program. She did an amazing job! The students listened and loved learning about the art pieces. Ms. Dirk's wrap up her visit by having the students make a class totem pole that represented friendship, citizenship, sharing and peace.