Grinch Party!!

We have loved having the Grinch visit us everyday. To send him off back to Who-ville, we had a Grinch party. We played sight word bingo, made Grinch masks and made Grinch cookies. We had such a fun time.

AM class 

PM class 

I just want you all to know how loved I feel today. Thank you all so much for everything! You are all so generous and I love teaching your children. I will miss seeing them over the break. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!! 

Run, Run Rudolph

Unfortunately, I was sick this week so I was stuck at home for a few days. Mr. Grinch kept me company so he wasn't able to visit either. It was nice to be back on Friday and so was Mr. Grinch. We learned facts about reindeer and did a little writers workshop. We wrote about all that we learned. Then we got to make fun reindeer hats. We galloped around the classroom to the song, "Run Run Rudolph". It was a lot of fun and they are some of the cutest reindeer I have ever seen.

Mr. Grinch

On December 1st, we had a new classroom visitor. Mr. Grinch came to our classroom and brought us a present. It was the book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". So we got to start off our Christmas celebration by watching the movie. Mr. Grinch also has his very own sight word journal that he writes in to let us know what the word of the day is. We are helping him become a better writer by editing his sentences. We also want to be good writers too. If we are writing our sentences the kindergarten way and have finger spaces and punctuation at the end, we get to put a heart on Mr. Grinch. I am super impressed with how much their writing has improved. 

Today, Mr. Grinch brought us the book, "The Littlest Elf". We did a fun writing activity about what we would do if we were an elf. After, we got to make our very own elf. Thanks Mr. Grinch for making our day so fun! 

Happy Thanksgiving!!

This week we finished up going over all of our vowels. So today, we had a vowel party! Each table got a different letter and they worked together to draw pictures of things that start with that letter. After we were done, they got to present their letter to the class. 

Morning class:

Afternoon Class 

We also celebrated Thanksgiving by playing "Roll a Turkey." We rolled dice and counted up the numbers to help us put together our cute turkey treat. 

Morning class:

Afternoon class

Jesse's mom brought a super cute cookie plate to share as their holiday tradition. I should have taken a picture of it before we ate them. Since it is a giving plate and she kindly gave them to our class, we are going to keep on giving. I am going to fill the plate back up and give it to someone over the break. I'll post pictures to let you know where it goes. Such a fun and sweet idea! 

Consonant- Vowel- Consonant Monster!!

We had so much fun this week. We got to watercolor paint our pots that we made last week. They turned out so great! Here are a few examples.

We have also been going over a vowel everyday. We learned about what CVC words are and made a CVC monster. We made a silly cvcvc name for our monster and then got to writing our story. We learned about the different parts of a story: characters, setting, problem and solution. As a class we worked together to write a fantastic story. It was so fun to hear their ideas and to see the excitement as we put it all down on paper. After we were the authors and wrote the story, we got to be the illustrators too! I gave each student a different part of the story to draw. I'm excited to put it altogether so we can read our book! They will each get a chance to take it home to share it with their family. 

I kinda slacked on pictures this week. I promise I'll get better. We just get so into the lesson and what we are doing that I forget. So here is the afternoon class being fantastic illustrators. Sorry morning class, I'll get you next week. 

What we have been up to this week.

We are learning lots about Thanksgiving and having gratitude. Today, we wrote a letter to someone in our class. We also learned about how Native Americans used symbols to write stories instead of words. We wrote our own stories using symbols on pots that we will be painting next week. 

We also had a super fun surprise when Deagun's tooth fell out while we were working! We were so excited. It's his very first lost tooth and he happened to be the leader of the day too! He is also the first friend to lose one in school, so fun!!! 

This week was rough with early out everyday. We were all thrown off schedule but they did so good and have been learning so much. We love Kindergarten!!

The beginning of November!

I can't believe it's already November! This year is flying by and we are learning lots in kindergarten! We have started talking about Thanksgiving and what we are thankful for. Each student got a feather and wrote something they are thankful for. Then we put them altogether to make our class turkey.

We also read the book "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie." We talked about our favorite food at Thanksgiving and made our own old lady to eat it. It was such a fun writing activity for them to start sounding out all of the words. We are excited for our parents to come see them during conferences next week!

PM Halloween Party!!!

We had a fun party this afternoon. We played "Don't Eat Jack", decorated treat bags and cookies and painted pumpkins. Thanks to the parents who helped make it happen. I love these kids and the fun things we do! 

Happy Halloween!!!