Thanksgiving Feast

On Wednesday, we celebrated Thanksgiving by having a feast.  The kids had a lot of fun and I even heard some of them using their manners (please and thank you).  There was a lot of food for everyone and they enjoyed eating with their friends from the other two classes!  They even helped to clean up after we were done!  I am so glad and proud of them!  They did an awesome job!!

Dress For The Weather!

Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather!  We go out to recess every day unless it is raining or below 0 degrees.  All kids should have a warm winter coat, snowpants, boots, hat and mittens.  They should also be able to get dressed with minimal help!  It just gets too hard to help 18 kids all at the same time, so please work on these independent skills at home! :) 

Reader's Theater

Reader's Theater came to visit us again on Friday!  The kids were very excited to have them come back and to bring a story to life!  The kids are hoping they will come back every week! :)

Short Week!

We only have school 3 days this week!  There will be no school on Thursday or Friday due to Thanksgiving!  Have a great time with family and friends!

Reading!

The kids brought homework home on Friday!  They were so excited!  We have been working on "reading"!  On Friday, they all met in their small groups and we read a sight word book!  They loved it!  Hopefully we will keep working on their sight words and you will be seeing more "homework" come home!  They wanted to read to everyone!  They even read to their reading buddies! :)

Changes!

There are some changes happening in the classroom.  The kids and I worked on a new classroom arrangement today.  We are going to be changing on how we do centers, so I was trying to make space for new ones!  The kids were great with helping and making suggestions!  I loved it!  They took ownership for helping and the new arrangement!  I am very proud of them!  They seem better able to handle change than I do! :)

Flash Cards

Please let me know if you want flashcards to help your child at home!  I have sight words, letters, and can make numbers if you need them.  Drop a note in your child's folder and I will get them ready for you!

Thanksgiving!

We talked about Thanksgiving today and why we have Thanksgiving!  The kids were very interested in knowing where the pilgrims came from, more about Native Americans and what was here when the pilgrims got to America.  They were very surprised to find out there were no stores here, no houses, no bathrooms, etc....  They just assumed that everything was here when they got here! :)

It has been a long time!

I didn't realize that it had been awhile since I have posted!  I had gotten so busy with our fall party and getting ready for conferences that I neglected blogging about what was going on in the room!  I am sorry about that!  Hopefully I will be able to keep adding little tidbits about things that are happening in our room! :)

Voting Day

The elections have come and gone.  We were fortunate to have a polling place at Halverson.  The kids were very curious as to why there were extra people in the gym and what were they doing in there.  We talked about what an election is and what happens.  We also talked about the red stickers that people were wearing.  They were wondering if they could get red stickers too, but we then talked about only the people who actually voted, got a sticker. They can't wait to get older so they can vote.  I think getting a red sticker might also be an incentive! :)

Thanks for Coming!

WOW!  It was so great to meet with all of you!  Our room had 100% attendance for conferences!  I was so excited to see everyone and to let you know of all the progress that your child has made!