Wow! What a fun and productive week we had in kindergarten! On Tuesday we all brought our teddy bears to school to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt’s birthday with our new 3rd grade friends. We worked hard all week on carving a pumpkin, and even made a very detailed how-to digital storybook about the process. If you want to learn how to carve a pumpkin, this video is for you! Today was our storybook parade and family lunch. What a fun day! It is hard to believe that we got so much fun in one week. Most of the children are at home or out with their families, so instead of letting them tell you all about our terrific week, I have uploaded some videos for you to enjoy of what we have been up to in kindergarten.

Here is a video of Teddy Bear Day. We had quite a variety of bears in the room!

Here is our How-To digital storybook on carving a pumpkin.

Max and the Wild Things!Have a Happy Halloween!

Bonus Blog!

Here are some pictures of career day that Caroline's mom took. They are wonderful! Hope you enjoy them.

Wow, What a busy week in kindergarten. What a great career day! Since there is no school tomorrow, there will be no class blog post. However, we worked hard today to get a video about our careers ready for you to enjoy. Everyone in the class got a chance to share about their career, and why they picked the career that they did. Next week we will be celebrating fall and Halloween all week. We have lots of fun activities planned!

Enjoy our career day and have a great weekend!

Our eighth week of kindergarten is complete. We have been working hard on learning our addresses and phone numbers. If your child does not know his/hers please keep working at home!

Reminders for next week:
There is NO school next Friday (October 23). Enjoy the day with your child

White T-shirts for our Wild Thing costumes need to be turned in by Tuesday.

This week we talked about the sounds /r/ and /e/ as well as the words do and up. Next week we will be introducing the /b/ and /l/ sounds and the words see and in. In social studies we have started our community unit, and we have been talking all about homes. We have even made homes and put them on our community mural. Stop by and check it out! In math we have been working hard on our # writing. This is a challenging skill for most students. Please help your child by encouraging them to practice writing their numbers at home. It is ok if they are backwards or not perfect at first, practice makes perfect!

Frank working hard at morning center time.

Frank was our terrific kid this week. Here is what he has to say about kindergarten:
We went to the big playground today. We earned it because we stayed on green at lunch and got 10 panther paws. We made trees in art. We made houses and put them in our city. We water color painted our houses for our class book. I like when we walked to the church for code blue (Ms. Titus’s note: We have been practicing our safety drills. Code Blue is the code for a suspicious package on campus. We evacuate down the road to be safe. It was just a practice!) We wrote on the white boards and listen for sounds. We wrote to our pen pals. We practiced writing our numbers. This week was a nice week!

Our seventh week of kindergarten is over. It was a fun filled Friday for sure!

Reminders for next week:
Progress reports go home on Wednesday. Please sign and return the bottom portion.
There is NO early release on Wednesday. The students will be released at 2:15

This week we talked about the sounds /h/ and /d/ as well as the words a and at. Next week we will be introducing the /r/ and /e/ sounds and the words do and up. Please practice these words and sounds at home with your child!

In social studies we finished our unit on school. The Gingerbread Boy led us on a hunt all aound the school today.

We will start practicing our address and phone number at school next week, as we begin our unit on homes and the community.

Kayla eating her piece of the Gingerbread Boy

Here is what our terrific kid Kayla had to say about the week:

We went to the book fair. We did the animal yoga video in movement. We made gingerbread men. Today we looked for him (the Gingerbread Boy) and ate him. He was hard to find. We made a gingerbread book. We went to the library and the cafeteria kitchen. Tonight is the movie. The week was terrific!

Here is the story of the Gingerbread Boy in kindergarten, and two videos to help your child share the story with you.

When Mrs. T. arrived at school, the Gingerbread Boy got away from her, but he left us clues to where he could be. We didn't find him after looking at the clues, but later he must have gotten tired because he showed up in our classroom for us to eat!

The first is the class discussing where they think he could have run away too, and the second is everyone on the hunt, and then later discovering him back in the classroom

Wow! What a fun and busy week in kindergarten! The kids had a lot to say this week, especially our blog authors and terrific kids, Melanie and Thomas (Melanie was terrific kid last week, but with no school on Friday, she did not get a chance to share then).

Here are some reminders for the next few weeks:

Saturday is the fundraiser at the lodge, just down the street from school
Tuesday Oct. 6 is the 2nd PTA meeting at 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Oct. 7 is an early release day.
Friday Oct. 9 is movie night at the school

This week we talked about the sounds /f/ and /o/ as well as the words like and not. Next week we will be introducing the /h/ and /d/ sounds and the words a and at. Please practice these words and sounds at home with your child!
In social studies we have been talking about school, and how friends act at school. Next week we will continue to talk about school, with the help of The Gingerbread Boy. Ms. T. will even be bringing in gingerbread for us to try.

Hopefully, you have gotten the note asking for parents to come in and share about their career in the upcoming weeks. We would love to have you come in when we learn about our community and community helpers!

Here is what Thomas and Melanie (with help from the class) had to say about our busy week in kindergarten.

We saw firefighters. We saw their ax and squirt the hose. We got new letters and new words. We made a school snack. We only put in good things and not the rotten banana *Ms. Titus’s note: We made a snack to symbolize all the good things at school; hard workers, good friends, adult helpers, etc. We decided that rotten attitudes and children who can’t make good choices don’t help a school, just like a rotten banana doesn’t help a snack taste good* We went to the learning center. We got to look at books and take one home for one night. This week was fantastic and great!

P.S. Here is a link to Mrs. Riddle's blog. She has posted a video of our class enjoying their time in our learning center/library. http://21stcenturycrop.blogspot.com/