Fun With Cass

At the beginning of this week our kindergarteners were finishing up their first Superkids book, Cass.  So the whole class made Cass caps.  The kids had lots of fun decorating their caps and wearing them.  We are now starting our second book, Oswald.

 

Weekly News

Another great week as past.  We are learning a lot and having a lot of fun while doing it.  The kindergarteners will be finishing up our first Superkids book, Cass, and are very excited to find out who the next Superkid will be.  We will find out this week, so be sure to ask your child who the next Superkid is.

Also as a reminder please make sure you are reading with our child every night for at least 15 minutes.  This is very important for them.  I have been looking at the reading logs that have come back on Fridays and I am happy to see this being done. 

Here are some pictures of things we have been doing in our math centers.  Enjoy!

An Exciting Week

This week kindergarten started Superkids!  It is so wonderful to see how excited they are about Superkids and they can't wait to meet the next one. 

In math we have been enjoying working in our centers.  The students are loving the math games.  On Friday we also played a counting game using beanbags and a giant watermelon that I drew.  The students loved tossing their beanbag onto a section of the watermelon and then counting how many seeds there were.  We also expanded on that and figured out which section had more or less. 

Thank you to everyone who brought their reading logs back on Friday so that I could check them.  For those of you that forgot please put them in your child's folder on this Friday.  At the end of the month I will collect these and give out a new one.  Also tomorrow, Monday, our first homework assignments will be given out.  The kindergarteners will get one reading and one math sheet.  They will both be due on Wednesday, September 14.  Please look for these sheets in your child's folder.

Welcome Back!

Welcome Back!!  It was so nice to see everyone again for our first day of school.  The kids had a lot of fun drawing, writing, playing math games, and getting a tour of the school.  I look forward to another great year at the Academy.

New Computers

Over the past week the children have been really enjoying the new computers that we have in our room.  They have been thrilled to have the chance to play different games from one of my favorite websites www.literactive.com during center time.

What We Have Been Up To

As school draws to a close we are still very busy learning.  We have been working on our grow and change unit this month.  The students painted a spring garden using their hand prints for flowers, painted the stems and leaves, and stamped butterflies.  I added everyone's picture to their hand print flower and it looks great hanging in our hallway. 

The students have also planted some plants in the room and we very been busy watering them and waiting for them to grow.

The students have also been working in small groups with me to work on their counting skills by doing some sunflower subtraction and butterfly addition activities. 

Our latest scientist was Victoria F.  She showed us a very cool experiment on how to launch your own astronauts using ping pong balls and a hair dryer.  The students really enjoyed learning about gravity and seeing the balls floating in the air.

Last Thursday the students had a safety presentation from Crossing Guard Bob.  He talked to them about crossing safety and then took the students outside and had them cross the street in groups.  Crossing Guard Bob had some other officers come to help me and before they left the students all got to take a picture in front of the police vehicle and got to hear the sirens and see the flashing lights.

Happy Mother's Day

I would like to thank all of our moms that were able to come for our tea party on Friday. 

I hope all of our moms have a Happy Mother's Day!