Santa Makes a Visit!

A special thanks to Blake's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford for planning this special visitor to come to our class and for the awesome Santa gifts. We all know how busy Santa is and GREATLY appreciate his time! Each of us were able to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what we wanted. Don't worry parents...you'll see a picture of your child on Santa's lap very soon!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

This kids had a busy, fun and festive week! They had a great time writing clues for their classmates to guess what their present was!

They made potato cakes from scratch. They even shredded the potatoes!

Yum!

They each had to wash their potato before shredding it.

Building a Christmas Tree Glyph
They even traced and cut out the tree.

Measuring objects using candy canes

Our finished product of the Christmas Tree Glyph

Using the Smartboard to make our lunch choice

Blake built a toy in the blocks center!

All Aboard!

This week we had a lot of fun studying trains! Marble Works was a big hit in the science center. It was a difficult task, but with a little team work we were able to build some complex marble coasters!

In dramatic arts, we are decorating a house for Christmas. Our favorite is to decorate the tree.

In the math center we had to roll a dice and the 1st person to build a train, using unifix cubes, the length of the string won!

Rhyming family trains!

We played the Teen Frame math game! It was very interesting doing this whole group!

Solving addition problems using counters and white boards

We wrote train addition stories in centers this week.

After reading The Little Engine that Could, we built a train by following directions. We then wrote a predictable chart of what we could do and added it to our picture.

Spiller Fans!

So adorable and I think I should add..PRECIOUS! SEE!! This is what I get to go to work and enjoy..smiles, hugs, laughter, and pure enjoyment for life!

We Are Thankful!

On Tuesday we enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal in our classroom. The kids had such a nice time visiting. Check out our class website soon for a video from our meal!

I hope the fire marshal doesn't see these!

The Little Old Lady

Today for Book Character Dress Up Day, all the kindergarten teachers dressed up as parts of the scarecrow from the book, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything! Our class has acted out this book and it's one of their favorites!

Guest Reader!

Drew's grandmother, a former 1st grade teacher, joined us for Book Character Dress Up Day. She made a special visit to read to us! She's our 1st guest reader and we loved having her!

Scarecrows

For homework the kids had to dress up a scarecrow using a template that was sent home. These were so creative, I had to share! The kids LOVED sharing them with the class and were so PROUD!

A Week of Thanksgiving!

It was such a wild week that I didn't get as many pictures as I would've like. It's better than nothing! We wrote a predictable chart about what we were thankful for. Then we cut of the sentence, to put the words in order and illustrated our words for a class book.

This week in the grocery store we made a grocery list.

In math we made a fall noddle necklace.

Book Character Dress Up Day!

We end Children's Book week with a bang! We dressed up as our favorite book characters and had a Book Character Parade around the school. Can you figure out who these ADORABLE characters are?

OOPS!

I made a big mistake last night! I decided to delete the Kodak program on my computer since I truly dislike it! Today at school I went to upload a video of the students working in the blocks center and could not find it! When I deleted the program I deleted all the pictures and videos from last week! I had also deleted my memory card! I usually transfer them to My Pictures, but didn't do it before deleting Kodak. Well, I'm sorry I do not have anything to post! I'm very upset because I had wonderful videos of the kids making apple butter and homemade biscuits. It was such a fun and yummy week at school. Wish us luck tomorrow, it's pictures with Santa, H1N1 shots, and wear a tie to school! It should be one WILD day!

Falling Into Fall!

Graphing leaves with JC's mom! We love our parent volunteers!

We sorted "acorn shapes" in math and then put number words in order!

This week was our 1st time using our word sticks to build words! We had fun making real and nonsense words.

We created letters, numbers, and patterns using the peg boards in the fine motor center.

The grocery store opened this week in dramatic arts! We are having fun shopping and writing sales.

This week we wrote a class book about our field trip to Farm Days! We picked our favorite picture and Mrs. Robinson wrote what we wanted our page to say.

We traced and painted fall leaves in the art center. They are hanging in our tree outside.

A classmate broke her arm at recess last week! Poor thing! We all signed her cast.