Making Log Cabins

Making Log Cabins

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Kindergarten families!!!  I am so grateful to be in such a great partnership with all of you and your children.  Thank you for all you do for your children and for our classroom!  We have been learning so much about the pilgrims journey over on The Mayflower.  We have seen what a pilgrim and native american village would have looked like.  Been able to see a day in the life of a pilgrim and native american family and the clothes they wore.  Ask your child what their favorite part about life long ago for the pilgrims and native americans is.
When we return from Thanksgiving break we will begin learning about Holidays Around the World.  The Holiday season is quickly approaching.  One of my favorite things to teach during the holiday season is Holidays Around the World in December.  We learn about how children and families all over the world celebrate during their holiday season and the customs that go along with them.  If you are interested in sharing a custom that you are familiar with from another country with our classroom please let me know which country, and day/time works best for you!  Some of the countries we learn about are: Mexico, Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, England, United States, etc.  If there is a country that you know a lot about that is not on this list, we would love to learn about even more countries and their customs!!!  Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you for considering!

Halloween Party!

Thank you to all the families that helped at our Halloween party or provided treats!!!  We all had a spooktacular time!  Special thanks to Ashlee Snakenberg, our room Mom, for organizing everything to make our party such a success!

This week during reading time we will be comparing and contrasting using a Venn Diagram between Fiction and Halloween stories that we read.  We will continue to work on knowing what are the parts of a fiction story:  Characters, Setting, Problem, and Solution.  Make sure to ask your child to show you our "Character chant!"   

During math we will continue to work on writing our numbers 0-25 and being able to show 1-1 correspondence for those numbers as well.  We will also be making shape collages to describe attributes of shapes and compare 2-d (flat) and 3-d shapes.

In Science, we are continuing to learn about and observe how the trees and seasons are changing. We are writing in our science journals about the observations we make of the trees outside.

I enjoyed getting to meet and discuss your child's progress with families last Thursday at conferences, and am excited to meet and discuss with the rest of the families tomorrow at conferences.  Thank you for being an integral part of your child's education!

Wear your polka dots this Friday, October 16th!!! We are trying to win an assembly from the Pete the Cat series.  The title teachers will be entering the polka dot pants dance contest by making a music video.  One of the elements of the video is to have our kids wear polka dots and dance.  We thought since the walk a thon is Friday and we are already playing music, this would be a good chance to do both things at once.  So, we will ask kids to dress up in polka dots Friday and will video them dancing to the music as we start walking with each grade.

Fire Safety and Homecoming

Hat day on Tuesday for Homecoming week!

Fire Safety day, when smoke goes up we go down to the floor!

Stop, drop, and roll!

Thank you Washington Fire Dept. for teaching us all about fire safety!

PJ and favorite stuffed animal day!