Sept. 29

Morning Meeting-We sang our sunflower song again. We also chanted and acted out the Gingerbread man rhyme. This week is Gingerbread man week. For our quick share, we shared our favorite part of sunflower day. Overall the kids liked picking seeds out of the sunflowers.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab.
MAPS test-We had our first MAPS test today. We will have our next one on Wednesday. Todays test was on reading skills.
Read Aloud-The Sunflower and The Gingerbread Man
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Uu and Vv.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have any time since we had MAPS testing.
Rest Time-We listened to 5 LIttle Sharks Swimming in the Sea
Math-Calendar & Calendar Book
We also made a large age graph as a class and then made a small graph to take home. As students have birthdays, our graph will be changing. Students will be moving their square to the next age. Right now we have 14 students who are 5 and 7 students who are 6.
Science-We read a book called "Leaf Man". Then the students who brought leaves shared their favorite 2 leaves. Tomorrow we are going to use our leaves for math...sorting, counting, patterns. We will also put them in order from biggest to smallest. We will be making leaf creatures tomorrow too.
***Please have your child bring some leaves tomorrow if they haven't already.***
*Fire Station Field Trip permission slip came home today. Please return it as soon as possible. There is no fee for this field trip.

Sept. 26

Sunflowers! Sunflowers! Sunflowers!
We had a very fun and busy sunflower day.
Morning Meeting-We shared our sunflowers during morning meeting along with our sunflower stories. We took pictures with our sunflowers too. If someone didn't have a sunflower, another student shared their sunflower. We sang the Sunflower song that we learned last year at Round-up.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom in the keyboard lab upstairs. The students got to play music on a keyboard. They were very excited.
Read Aloud-We read "The Sunflower House" and "A Sunflower Grows Up".
Reading Activities-We were illustrators for our own sunflower book. We practiced reading the words using our illustrations to help us if we couldn't remember a word. Then we read the book using partners.
*We also painted a sunflower. We are going to add real sunflower seeds to our painting on Monday.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote about our own sunflower stories. We could write what we know about sunflowers or write our own planting story.
Rest Time-We listened to "A Sunflower as Big as the Sun".
Math-Calendar
We made sunflowers as big as us. We measured how tall we are with a string and then we made our sunflower the same height as us.
We also picked out seeds from our sunflowers to use in math later. They loved doing this.
We ended the day with a podcast that Sophia made with her dad, Steve. It told the story of them planting and growing Sophia's sunflowers. It was great! Thanks for sharing with us. We hope to watch it again-the projector didn't work today. Steve got it working after the students left for the bus, so we are going to try again
***Find Leaves for Monday!!!***Please have your child bring in some fall leaves.

Sept. 25

***Sunflower Day Tomorrow!!! Send in your biggest sunflower head in a bag!****
Morning Meeting-We did Touch your nose, touch your toes for our movement activity. We shared our favorite computer game for our quick share.
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg.
Read Aloud-Our Jobs- I used it as a mini-lesson about using pictures to help figure out the words in the book.
Computer-We went to the computer lab for our practice MAPS test.
Rest Time-We listened to "Alligator Smile"
Math-Calendar
Picture Taking
Special Event-Sarah came to visit. We did Bear Hunt, Humpty Dumpty, Partner Shapes, Partner Sculptures and Shake and Freeze.

Sept. 24

**Picture Day Tomorrow***Please send in picture money.
Morning Meeting-We did the Bubble Gum song we learned with Sarah yesterday. We also did Icky Sticky Bubble Gum.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today. Each of the kids brought home a note from phy. Ed. class. Mrs. Lingo watched them do a few activities and assessed them on these skills.
Read Aloud-Mice Squeak, We Speak and If Your Happy and You Know It
Reading Activities-I introduced the letters Oo and Pp. After reading our stories, we looked at the pictures again and decided which animals were bigger than us and which animals were smaller than us. Then we brainstormed a list on animals that were bigger and list of animals that were smaller. We then drew a picture of an animal bigger than us, we drew a picture of ourselves and we drew a picture of something smaller than us. Ask your child about their bigger, smaller picture.
Writer's Workshop-In our mini-lesson, we talked about drawing and writing words that are hard for us. I was writing my story and thinking out loud. I said that a tractor is too hard to draw so I am not going to write my story now, I am going to write about something I know I can draw. We decided that wasn't a good idea. I should just try my best and see what happens. I also encouraged that with writing words. Even if it is hard, try your best and listen for th sounds. We shared one story at the end .
Rest Time-We listened to the Alphabet Rescue
Math-Calendar and calendar book. We also did a number scavenger hunt. I gave them a number board. They had to walk around with a partner and count different things around the room. If they counted 8 posters, then they crossed off the 8. The kids loved this activity. I told them that I would make copies of the number board so the students could take them home to do a number scavenger hunt at home.
Science-Our topic today was "We are alike/we are different". We read the book "We are Alike/We Are Different. It was written and illustrated by kindergarteners. Then we talked about being alike and different. I said we are all alike because we like to play on the playground, but we are all different because we like to do different things on the playground. We made a graph of favorite playground activities. The tunnel was the winner with the slide and monkey bars coming in a close second.

Sept. 23

Morning Meeting-Back by popular demand, we did "Going on a Bear Hunt" for our movement activity. This time we went to different places on our way to the bear cave...a bridge, the mud, a deep, dark forest, a big lake and a volcano. The kids love it when we find the bear in the cave and have to run back to our house. They want to do it again right away. For our quick share we shared the favorite gym activity they did today.
Specials-We went to Phy. Ed. and library today. In Phy. Ed., we had a choice day. The students got to choose from basketball, football, frisbee along with a few other options.
Read Aloud-Now I Am Big
shared Reading-Little Bo Peep and a poem "Once I was a baby..."
Reading Activity-I introduced the letters Mm & Nn. The students brainstormed ideas of things they could do when they were babies and things they can do now that they are big kids. Then we drew pictures of our ideas in our kindergarten memory books.
Writers Workshop-We didn't have time today
Rest Time-We listened to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and "Clifford goes Apple Picking".
Math-calendar
Special Activity-Sarah, an instructor from ACE, visited our classroom today. She did movement activities with us. First we did name clapping. Then we did the Bubble Gum song. The kids loved this one. I lead four verses of Hickory Dickory Dock using different movements up the clock. Then we did a Shake and Freeze song. Sarah introduced five different instruments. She picked 5 students to be musicians to play the instruments. She was the conductor. She would start the instruments playing and the other students would shake different parts of their body. Then we switched to all students got a chance to be musicians. Last, we played a partner game. We made body sculptures. The students really enjoyed having Sarah visit. She will be visiting again on Thursday.
We ended our day with some free choice time.
***Picture day is Thursday, September 25th. Please send in picture money.
***Sunflower Day is Friday, September 26th. Please send in your biggest sunflower head.

Sept. 22

Morning Meeting-We did the song Macarana Months. We did the movements while we sang the months of the year. Our quick share was our favorite months. Winter was the winner-interesting.
Specials-We had music
Read Aloud-Three Little Kittens
Shared Reading-LIttle Miss Muffet & Hickory Dickory dock
Reading Activities-We introduced the letters Kk and Ll. We did a rhyming words activity.
Writer's workshop-We talked about using more detail in our drawings. I told a story and then drew pictures to match my story and then I wrote my words. This time my story had more ideas on it. I encouraged the students to add more details and ideas into their drawings. This would help them tell their stories better. At the end we shared our stories.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Marsupial Sue.
Math-Calendar with calendar books. We played a partner game called "feel and count" . I put blocks in lunch bags. The students had to feel and count the blocks without looking and then write the number on their white board. Then their partner did the same thing. They compared numbers and then dumped out the blocks and counted them to see if they were correct. After counting 5 or 6 bags we discussed which bags were easier and which were harder. We decided that the bags containing the smallest amounts of blocks were easier than the ones with lots of blocks inside.
Science-We started talking about different parts of the body today to go along with our reading theme "Look at Us" . We found many different parts of our bodies and then talked about what we use them for. We read the book "Let's Look at Bodies". Then we made our own body book to take home. It included our hands, our fingerprints and a picture of our feet. We also tried to write the words for these parts.
**Picture Day- Thursday, September 25-Please remember to return your picture money by Thursday.

Sept. 19

Morning Meeting-We did the Silly Pirate Song for our movement. For our quick share we shared our favorite activity we did this week-some favorites were playing on the playground and writers workshop.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Here Are My Hands"
Shared Reading-Hickory Dickory Dock
Reading Activities-We introduced Ii and Jj. We have been learning the letters in sign language as we introduce them. We made itty bitty dots for our letter Ii page in our ABC book we are making. We will do Jazzy Js on Monday. We started our Kindergarten Memory books. We drew our self portraits.
Writer's Workshop-We did an interactive story. I told the story and the students helped me spell my words. We brainstormed new writing ideas. We talked about what to do when we were finished with a story. We had time to write and share. We had stories about places we are going this weekend, along with things we like to do. We had some pet and family stories. The kids are very excited about their writing. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today.
Rest Time-We listened to the story Follow That Bear
Math-We did our calendar books. We also made block towers with 20 blocks. We compared them with a neighbor. We then took blocks off one by one and counted backwards from 20 to 0. We counted back up to 10 and then made a 2nd tower of 10. Then we decided that 10 blocks plus 10 blocks equals 20 blocks.
We finished our day with some outside time. Have a great weekend.

Sept. 18

Free Choice Time-We finished with our elbow painting. Check for yellow elbows -I tried to get them clean. We also had golf ball painting for the letter Gg. For dramatic play, I set up a 3 Bears area with a big bowl, medium bowl, and small bowl along with 3 chairs and 3 "beds" (towels). I had the 3 bear headbands and a Goldilocks headband. The kids took turns acting out different parts of the story. It was very fun.
Morning Meeting-We did "Going on a Bear Hunt" for our movement activity. They loved it. We went on a bridge, swam a river, up a tree, through a wheat field until we got to the cave...we found the bear!
Specials-We went to art with Mrs. Karg. We painted with water color paints. Mrs. Karg would like a paint shirt for art. A couple of students have one at school. Please send an old shirt labeled with your child's name if you can.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack and Jill, Hey Diddle, Diddle and Humpty Dumpty.
Read Aloud-Our Classroom and When Dinosaurs Go To School
Reading Activity-Introduction to Gg and Hh. We also made a face to go in our big bus we painted this week. We each have a rule to go with our bus painting.
Writer's Workshop-Today during our mini-lesson, we learned about adding onto a story...adding more to the picture and adding more words. We also talked about starting a new piece. We learned when I am done, I can add to the pictures, add more words or start a new story. At the end, we have a quick share. It has been fun seeing all of their ideas for stories. Today a couple of kids wrote about the Vikings, someone wrote about a dolphin he saw on a cruise with his family, someone wrote about their fish. Ask your child what he/she wrote about today during Writers Workshop.
Rest Time-Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Math-Number Grid and the Dice Game with partners
We went outside for 5 minutes before dismissal.

Sept. 17

Morning Meeting-We did our movement activity from yesterday-touch your nose, touch your toes. Our quick share was favorite story-the 3 Pigs or the 3 Bears.
Specials-We had Phy. Ed. today
Read Aloud-Big Book-The Three Bears-This was a more traditional version.
Shared Reading-The Elephant Poem-We found all the Ee's. The Five Fingers Poem-We found all of the Ff''s.
Reading Centers-We had six centers-We did elbow painting for the letter"Ee". We did feather painting for the letter "Ff". We had a find the letter center-we used the poems from our shared writing. We had white boards out to practice writing our letters. We had the listening center open along with the book corner for a book look.
Rest Time-I read another version of The Three Little Pigs. In this version the pigs made waffles and at the end the wolf became a wolffle and all of the meanness was steamed out of him.
Writing-We started writer's workshop today. I introduced our writing folders. I modeled writing a story about something we know a lot about. I modeled sounding out words to spell words. We talked about being authors and illustrators. Everyone is working on writing their first story. Some kids finished and others are going to finish tomorrow. We had a lot of pet stories, a few dolphin stories, a princess story and a dragon story. Ask your child what story he/she wrote today. At the end of writers workshop, we did a quick share. Anyone who wanted to share could show and share.
We played outside for a few minutes at the end of the day.

Sept. 16

Morning Meeting-Movement Activity-Touch your nose, Touch your toes
Specials-Phy. Ed. and Library
Read Aloud-The three Bears
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Cc and Dd today. When we introduce a new letter, we learn how to make that letter in sign language. We also practice writing the new letters with our "magic" marker. We also started our word wall today. We are adding words under our Alphabet letters in the front of our room that we know. As we introduce the letters, we are adding the first names of the students in our room to our word wall. We have also added the word "bus" and "pig" because we learned how to spell these words last week. We added "is" and "today" because we see those two words everyday in our morning message.
Reading Centers-We are making an Abc book with art. Today we made Aa for ants, we used our fingers to make the ants. We made Bb for blueberries. We used our fingers and dot paints to make blueberries. Cc for cotton ball creations. Dd for dot paint designs. We also had coin rubbing with crayons for the letter Cc. We did a letter find. We read a poem and then highlighted all of the Cc words we found.
Rest time-We listened to Baa Baa Black Sheep
Math -We started using our calendar books today. We wrote the numbers on a calendar up to 16. We colored the pattern on our calendar to match the pattern on our classroom calendar. We colored 11 squares on our days of school page. We colored on our weather graph. We made tally marks. We wrote the month "September" on our tally and weather graph pages. We will be using these books daily with calendar. Today we spent a long time on them because it was our first day. Now it will go quickly when we are just adding todays information to our books. The students are very excited about them.
We played outside at the end of the day.

*Please return the Learning to Read bag everyday. We will put 2 new letters in them daily. If your child already knows these words, have them write words or find words that start with that letter.

Sept. 15

Morning Meeting-Used our "magic" marker (finger) to write Aa's and Bb's in the air, on the ceiling and on the floor-we also used our tongues as a "magic" marker. We made an "a" and a "b" in sign language. Then we did the hokey pokey using our sign language letters-"put your "a" in, put your "a" out..." Our quick share was favorite clap. So far the students seem to like the fireworks clap and the cheerleader clap. Have your child show you both of those claps.
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.
Special Event-We had bus safety with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department. We reviewed the rules and evacuated from the back of the bus.
Reading Activity-We introduced the letters Aa and Bb today. We also introduced the "Learning to Read" bags and the Alphabet boxes. The learning to read bags need to be returned everyday to school(blue pouches). The alphabet boxes stay at home. Every time a new letter comes home, your child should put it in his/her alphabet box (checkbook box)
Rest Time-Three Bears CD
Math-Dice Throw Game-The students roll both dice, count up the dots (intro to adding) and then put an X on the correct number on the game board.
Science-Our caterpillar turned into a cocoon today. We added our cocoon drawing to our caterpillar book.

Sept. 12

Morning Meeting-We did the Silly Pirate Song for our movement activity. We love it! For our quick share we shared our favorite part of the Silly Pirate Song.
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs-This was a different version-at the end the wolf had to apologize and help the pigs rebuild their houses.
Shared Reading-Nursery Rhymes-Jack & Jill and Hey Diddle, Diddle
Specials-We had music with Mrs. Engbloom
Reading activity-We were illustrators for our own versions of the 3 Little Pigs. We retold our story to an adult before putting it in our cubbies. Please have your child retell their story to you. Many of them were very excited to add a little bit of a twist...an extra house...
Rest Time-We listened to The 3 Little Pigs. This was the same version we read this morning, but the cd added songs to the story.
Math-Eating to Zero-Each student got 20 pieces of popcorn. We practiced counting forward and back to 20. Then we started eating one piece at a time. I introduced subtraction and the phrase "taking one away". After eating one piece, we wrote the new number on our whiteboards. We practiced counting, writing numbers and introduced subtraction...all while eating a little popcorn.
Science-We have had a little visitor in our room a couple of times this year-my caterpillar, Inchy. Today we took a closer look at Inchy. We are making a caterpillar book. Today we made our cover. We also looked closely at Inchy and drew his picture and wrote his name (some of my kids told me that they can tell he is a boy). Then we predicted what Inchy will look like when he changes. They are very excited about our little class pet.
*On Monday, I will have a substitute teacher in the afternoon from 11:30 until 2:40. If you have a change in dismissal, make sure you call and talk to a person because my sub will not have access to my voice mail or email. I will be in a meeting at the Community Center.
Have a great Weekend!!!

Sept.11

Morning Meeting-The Letter on the Bus interactive song-Each student got a little bus with a letter on it. We sang this song for each letter "The letter on the bus says __,__,__ repeat then ___ is it's name."
Specials-We had art with Mrs. Karg. After art, the kids said they looked in a mirror to draw their face and they did rubbings.
Read Aloud-The Three Little Pigs
Shared Reading-Jack and Jill
Reading Project-Scenery and puppets for the 3 pigs story. After reading the story one time. I used puppets to retell the story. Then the students helped me retell the story using puppets. We then made our own scenery for the puppet show. We talked about all of the parts needed for our show (3 houses-1 straw house, 1 stick house, 1 brick house). Then, after lunch, we made the stick puppets to go with our scenery. When our puppets and scenery were complete each student picked a spot in the room either alone or with a partner to retell the story using their puppets. It was lots of fun! I took some pictures. We have some great story tellers in our room-I heard different voices for different characters. After we were finished we read another version of The Three Little Pigs and compared both stories.
***Please have your child retell the story to you using their puppets and scenery. We talked about making changes to the story and telling it their own way. They were very excited to bring home their puppet play.
Math-Listen and Count-We first practiced writing our numbers on white board paddles from 1-10. Then we took our links and put them in our cup one by one and while listening to them we counted them. Then we wrote the number on our white board. We sorted them by colors and counted each color individually and wrote that number on our white boards. At the end of the lesson, we took two colors and made a simple addition problem.

*I have been taking lots of pictures since school started and am hoping to update my website with new pictures.
*I will be sending home my Kindergarten Updates by paper and linking it to my webpage.
*My calendar is also now linked to my webpage. So far I just have September's dates up on the web. Check it out

Sept. 10

Morning Meeting-Movement Activity-Pass the clap, pass the silly face, pass the ball; Quick Share-Favorite lunch
Read Aloud-Wheels on the Bus & our class book-Animals on the Bus
Specials-We had phy. ed. today. We played run rabbit run.
Shared Reading-Hello Bus poem
Reading Activity-Wheels on Bus mini-book. We talked about using picture clues to read books. By looking at the pictures you can tell a story. We colored a little bit on each page to help us "read" and sing our books. For example, we colored the wheels on the first page to remind us that this page is "Wheels on the Bus". After looking and coloring all of the pictures, we "read" it as a class then we read it with partners.
Writing-We practiced writing the date in numbers (9-10-08). We will be writing the date alot in writing. We also wrote our first name sample to compare with later in the year.
Rest Time-We listened to When I Grow Up..."
Math-Calendar & Review of coins. Pattern blocks were introduced today. We learned about the triangle, square, rhombus(diamond), trapezoid, and hexagon. We explored with the different shapes. We also made patterns and counted the pattern blocks. We ended the lesson by making pictures with the pattern blocks. I took pictures of their creations and then gave each student a piece of paper to draw their creation. It was very fun.
We ended the day with another free choice playtime so I could do some more assessments.
*Book Order-Our first book order was sent home today. Please return on Sept. 19

Sept. 9

*Today the students walked down to class on their own. If your child arrives at school before 8:05, he/she will still need to meet at the meeting place sign until the bell rings. After the bell rings, the staff will dismiss students by grade levels. If your child arrives after the 8:05 bell, he/she can walk to class.
Specials- Phy. Ed with Mrs. Lingo & Library with Mrs. Hasti
Morning Meeting-Movement activity-Couch Potato Pokey; Quick Share- How did I get to school?
Read Aloud-Animals on the Bus (interactive story) Each student got an animal. When the animal was called, he/she brought the animal up to the book.
Class Book-After reading the Animals on the bus, each student got a class book page to illustrate. We put all of our pages together to make our own class book called "Animals on the Bus".
Rest Time-We listened to "The Kissing Hand"
Math-Calendar
We also introduced coins. We talked about the penny, nickel, dime and quarter. We played a penny game using the plus and minus signs on a dice. If the student got a plus, she/he put a penny in the ice cube tray. If the student got a minus, she/he took a penny out. The player with their side of the ice cube tray filled won that game.
Social-Bus Safety-We reviewed all of the bus safety rules today. The kindergarteners already knew lots of the bus safety rules. We made bus safety posters after discussing all of the rules. We will meet with Mrs. Myers from the transportation department to go over bus rules on Thursday.
We finished our day with playing on the playground. We got out some new playground toys-jump ropes, chalk, balls, footballs.

Sept. 8

Our new themes this week are bus safety and Nursery Rhymes.
Center Time-We had a pop-up bus and a bus game out for free choice time today. The kids could pretend to ride in the bus. During center time I started doing the kindergarten pre-assessments. I am assessing letter recognition- upper and lower case, rhyming words, beginning letter sounds, sight words, number recognition, counting to 50 and counting by 10's. The students will have more free choice playtime this week while I am individually testing each student. We will use these results to plan curriculum. It will help me plan mini lessons for our reading time. It will also help the kindergarten team to determine which students qualify for Title 1 services.
Morning Meeting-movement-Wheels on the bus Quick share-fun thing he/she did over the weekend.
Read Aloud-Seals on the Bus
Special Visitors-Mrs. Petersmeyer and Mrs. Wharram visited and talked about important school wide rules for the hallways, lunchroom and playground. They also talked about being a Star Student. They talked about being kind to others. They did the broken heart activity-they talked about how words can hurt hearts.
Project-Animals on the bus-Each student made a bus out of construction paper and drew animals peeking out the windows to go along with our Seals on the Bus story.
Math-Calendar
*We had extra play time today so I could work on individual assessments.
We had music with Mrs. Engbloom.

Sept. 5

Morning Meeting-We did the pop-up song and the Pirate song. Our quick share was our favorite colors.
Read Aloud-Kindergarten Countdown
Shared Reading-Hooray for School
Project-We started our kindergarten scrapbooks today. We decorated our covers. We drew a picture of our favorite kindergarten activity for our Sept. page. Our high school helper glued our first day of school picture and our drawing on our Sept. page.
Rest Time-The Munching Crunching Caterpillar
Math-Fish cracker math- We used the fish to count, sort, and make patterns. We played shake and eat with a dice. After rolling the dice, the students could eat that many fish.
Social-We talked about kids around the world going to school. We found Mexico, France, China and Africa on the map. We saw pictures of kids from these different places.

Sept. 3 & Sept. 4

Sept. 3
We had another fun day in kindergarten. We are spending lots of time learning all of our kindergarten procedures.
*Morning Meeting-We always do the "Hello Song", Morning Message, Surprise Suitcase and the Happy Dance. We also try to do a fun movement activity and a quick share. We did the "Freeze" song and we tapped and clapped our names. Our quick share was "kindergarten is fun because..."
*We had Phy. Ed. with Mrs. Lingo.
*Reading-Our read aloud was "I Love School". Our shared reading was "Hooray for School". We drew ourselves with crayons and added the words "I Love School". We hung them up above our lockers. They are too cute!
*Rest Time- We listened to the story "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".
*Math-Partner Match-Each student go a piece of paper of different lengths. Each student had to find the student that matched their paper and they became math partners. Then they played the game Race to Trace.
We also had free choice time and outside time.

Sept. 4
*Morning Meeting-Movement activity "Silly Pirate Song" and Roll the Ball game. Our quick share was favorite food.
*Reading Activities-Our Read aloud story was "Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come". Our shared reading was a song-I Like to Come to School. We made a kindergarten student out of construction paper.
*We had art today with Mrs. Karg. They read the story "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and then made a little book with their purple crayon. Some students still need to share their drawings next week and will bring them home then.
*Rest time-We listened to the story "Pirate Pete's Big Adventure".
*Math-Today we had an introduction to measurement. We looked at a yard stick, a ruler and a tape measure. Then we used a crayon to measure with. We measured together first. We did some estimating. Then each student used a crayon to measure their school box, pencil, chair, a friend and themselves. At the end, they had a chance to measure other things in the room. Some kids measured doors, toys, blocks...It was a fun first measuring experience.
*We went outside and had free choice time.

1st Day of School

We had a great first day of school. We had center time(play time) in our room right away. We went to phy. Ed. and met Mrs. Lingo. We ran around the gym. We had lots of fun. We had library with Mrs. Hasti. Each student picked out one book to take home. You may keep the books for one week. We will have library next Tuesday. At morning meeting we did our Hello Song, our morning message, a name song (If your name is Mrs. Milow won't you pop right up), and our Happy Dance. Mrs. Milow did Surprise Suitcase. The students guessed that it was a ball-our sharing ball. Evan got to take the Surprise Suitcase home to put something inside.

We read the story Miss Bindergarten Gets REady for Kindergarten. We shared what we did to get ready for kindergarten. Each student drew a picture of what she/he did to get ready for kindergarten. We are going to add the words and a photo and make it into a class book.

We had lunch and indoor recess. During quiet time we listened to Roaring Rockets and I read The Night Before Kindergarten.

During math, we did calendar and explored with math manipulatives.

**The bus tag note was sent home today. Please make it tonight if you have not made one already. This will help me get all of the kids to the right place at the end of the day.

School picture order forms went home today. Our pictures are Thursday, September 25.