A Hoot of a Kindergarten Class!

Friday, August 24, 2012

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We finished up our first week of Creative Curriculum today, What names do we need to know at school. We had our first read-aloud for Wemberly Worried, Moved to the Beat and made some wonderful music with our instruments,

and drew our self portraits.

We also had fun in the block center and playing in the August sensory tub.

Meet Hooey, our class pet. He is going home with Kennadi today to spend the weekend. He will be visiting your family very soon! :)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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Today we continued our discussion of families. We reread Love Is a Family and counted the number of members for each family. Then we counted the number of members in our own family.

We are still practicing writing our first names correctly this week. Here is our daily sign-in sheet the students use every morning when they get to school.

The students also went to their first music class and learned some new songs with Ms. Poole. Our music time is every Thursday 10:30-11 am. We did a little rhythm making ourself today with Move to the Beat. The students had to listen to the tempo and dance either fast or slow.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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Today's discussion continued the importance of names. We read Quinito, Day and Night and discussed some of our daytime and nighttime activities. We also watched the eBook Anansi and His Children. Each of his children had a unique name that described their special talent.

We discussed his family, our families, and what a family portrait means. During art today we drew our family portraits.

Carol Merrill's open house was this morning. We are very excited that she will be here with us on Wednesdays. Girls will be taking dance, jazz, and tumbling and boys will be taking coordination and tumbling. Thank you to all who were able to make it to Open House this morning. Registration is due by next Wednesday.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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We continued our beginning of the year discussion today on the subject of losing things.

We talked about the importance of names, writing our names correctly, putting things back where they belong so we can find them the next time we need them, etc...

We learned the rhyme "Three Little Kittens" who lost their mittens. The students drew kittens for during art today and I dictated what they recalled from the rhyme.

So glad that Hope joined us today! Welcome back, Hope!

Monday, August 20, 2012

owl bet you can't guess how my room's decorated!

I. AM. IN. LOVE. WITH. MY. CLASSROOM. EEK! I had the best time decorating for the new school year! I am using the popsicle stick center plan this year. Each student has an owl stick.

I made center signs using our Cricut for each center. Once the pockets are filled, the center is filled.

I also painted owl portraits for the kitchen, reading, block, and writing centers.

Here's your tour, walking in the front door and turning left...the kitchen center...

the reading center...

large group rug...

This is Hooey the owl, our classroom pet. He will travel home with the students every weekend and they will record their adventures in a journal to share on Monday.