We Get To See A Play!!!!!

Halverson Kindergarteners and 1st graders are very lucky this year!  We get to go and see a play put on by the Minnesota State University-Mankato theater students!  The play is titled Iktomi. It is based on Native American themes!  We received a grant to help us afford to send Kindergarten and 1st graders.  Thank you to the Perpich Arts grant and to Halverson SPIRIT for funding this awesome opportunity!!  We will get to go to a real theater to watch the play.  On March 3rd, we will be going to the Marian Ross Theater to watch the play.  We will be back in time for lunch although Kindergarten will be eating a little later that day.  Please be watching for a permission slip to come home in your child's folder!  Send it back to school ASAP!  We want everyone to be able to attend! :)

Reader's Theater

Reader's Theater came back to put on another story for us!  The book they acted out was called The Three Little Javelinas. The kids were so excited!  They love to see them come for a visit!  They sat so quietly and talked about the play all afternoon.  They can't wait for them to come back again!

Playground Reminders

Please remember to send your child's snow gear everyday!  Even though it was very nice this past week, there is still a lot of snow, water and mud on the playground.  Your child needs their boots, snowpants, coat, hat and mittens everyday until further notice.  Our playground stays wet and muddy for a long time, so please keep that in mind!  Thanks for your help!! :)

New Student

We had a new student start this week!  Jonatan comes from Estherville, IA!  So with 3 Johns in the room, we had to do some creative reworking of their names!  We use John, Jonny, and Jonatan!  The kids seem to be doing well with remembering the changes, why can't I?  They love to remind me when I seem to forget! :)

WOW! What a Busy Week!!!!!

What a busy week!  We celebrated Valentine's Day and 100th Day of Kindergarten!  Lots of excitement and learning happened this week!  We did a lot of counting to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's.  The kids have been counting down the days to get to day 100.  I don't think they knew what to expect!  Some thought they were done with Kindergarten and were moving on to 1st Grade! :)  We worked on counting objects up to 100.  Some of the kids brought in 100 items from home!  We had everything from popcorn kernels, cheetohs, cereal pieces, pennies, and someone even drew 100 butterflies!  What an exciting day!  It was a crazy week for me to get back to work after being gone for a few days.  I found it was a lot harder for me than it was for the kids!  The kids did well with Mrs. Hanssen (she was the sub) and that makes me proud!! :)  Hopefully this week will settle down a little bit!

100th Day of School!

We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School on February 15th!  The kids have been getting excited about the 100th day.  They cheered when we hit the 90 day mark as they knew we were close to 100 days!  We will be busy doing different things that relate to the number 100! 

Please have your child bring in 100 different items for February 15th.  Make sure it is things they can carry easily! :)  Ideas are different cereal, toy cars, popcorn, pennies, a picture with 100 objects drawn on it.  The options are endless! :)

Valentine's Day

We will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Monday, February 14th.  We will be decorating bags as a whole class this week.  You can start to bring in your Valentine's this week.  Your child will be putting them in their friend's bags!  We will be reading them on Monday, February 14th! :)

Conferences!

Thank you to those that have shown up for your conferences!  I was excited to meet with all of you and show you the progress your child has made!  Please keep doing all of the wonderful things you are doing at home to help your child!