Happy Mardi Gras!

We started off today with a great discussion of more "bl" words. They were able to brainstorm some more words.


Zachary helped us figure out what a blouse is.


And our teacher for the day, Miss Aubriana, did a great job of matching the word block to the picture.


Then partners worked together to sort more "bl" words. They worked hard!


During writing, we reviewed what pronouns are and practiced starting off sentences with pronouns instead of using the famous "I like..." phrase going on in my class. I even had them work on writing three sentences to tell their story from their heart today. I saw some great writing going on! It made this former 3rd grade teacher proud!


I loved seeing Nolan and Nicholas working together on using the big blend chart!


Elisa and John were chosen as our PE All Stars today. Way to go!


Although we didn't have a Mardi Gras celebration, Zachary's family was nice enough to share some beads with our entire class. So fun!



Do you think Zachary had enough beads from the Mardi Gras parade to share? I've been itching to show y'all this pic! Love it! ;) thanks for sharing the fun with us!


Don't forget that the Valentine's Day party is this Thursday at 1:00! Be sure to send your child's decorated box and cards by then.



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Blah, blah, blah!

We started off the week great! This morning I introduced them to the "bl" blend.


Check out all of these "bl" words that they came up with this morning! I finally had to stop them so we could learn more stuff for the day. Ha!


During Writing, we learned what a pronoun is by watching a youtube video from PBS Kids.


The video was a little fast, but they were able to quickly tell me what the pronouns were after watching it twice.


Pronouns are tricky considering they have the word "noun" within the word! But these smarties did a great job of choosing the pronouns correctly!


Can you believe that our Kinders are subtracting now? Yep! We are learning all about subtraction this week. We first explored what subtraction was by pretending e were hungry bears and eating all of the apples off of our tree. So cute!


Then they got to practice writing subtraction problems.


After all of their hard work today, Mrs. Pollard gave them some freeze dance time.


Pretty fun to watch!


Our sweet friend, Wes, was chosen as the Music Star today. Way to go! She said he sang pretty good!



I received these ADORABLE pics from Breanna's mom today. Don't Breanna and her daddy look amazing? I heard that the Daddy/Daughter Sweetheart dance was so much fun. If you have a pic from the dance that you want to share, please send it to me!





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This week we've been reviewing short a word families. So yesterday they got to work with their partner to build various short a words (both real and nonsense). They had so much fun that they begged me to let them keep doing it during center time and continue today! Ummm....lets see...my Kinders want to keep learning? Uh...ok! ;)








I LOVE that Wes and Avaleigh built the word "dap" and that I got to teach them why it wasn't a nonsense word! This seriously brought me back to my high school days at Central! :)


During small groups, we reviewed the sight words "I" and "am". Lezlie did a great job of illustrating these captions with details! The sunshine even has sunglasses on!


I had to show this 100-piece puzzle that Team Dees worked on yesterday! Since I had to leave early on Monday, they didn't get a chance to finish it, so I let them work on it and finish it. Man, this was a great motivator to get them to work on writing also because I wouldn't let them work on the puzzle until they finished their independent writing. Hmmmm...maybe I'm on to something. ;)


During Computer Lab, Mrs. Morton had the kids use their creative brains by creating something with 100 snowballs.


Chloe had a lot of detail in hers!


Aaron created a reindeer on Santa's sled.



Today, during Phonics, we reviewed word families again while looking at some blends as well.


I'm so proud of Jessica for figuring out the sc blend to make scat.


John and Elisa did a Greta job with make some new words.


I love how Aaron and Alexee showed great teamwork during partner time!


During Writing today, we worked on writing how to stories. These cuties did a fabulous job of verbally explaining to me how to brush their teeth! They especially enjoyed getting to tell me that they spit at the end. Ha! I was extremely impressed with their stamina during this time considering how much they had to write! We all got close to having a meltdown when they realized they would have to write more than one sentence. But after I gave everyone some Focus a potion, they preserved and completed the assignment!


Chloe did an awesome job with sharing her how to story with her friends.


During math today, we worked on a word problem about Skittles. YUM! Alexee visualized the skittles in each bag and was able to skip count by 10s. Wow!


Elisa figured out that she could draw 3 Skittles in 3 bags and realized that it didn't match what she originally thought (3+3=6). After looking it over she noticed that she needed to add another +3 to come up with 9. Wow!


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Numbers go past 100???

I came back today and got to hear some fun stories from my friend's trips to the other classes yesterday. I'm so lucky that I have such a FABULOUS Kindergarten team of teachers that take such good care of each other's classes when we need help! I got these pics of my friends that visited Mrs. Geurin's class and Mrs. Hardin's class yesterday. Aren't these old folks cute?


















We reminisced about yesterday and wrote about our favorite part of the day. Some said that their favorite part was that I wasn't there. Ha! I asked them what they meant and they said because they got to go to other classes and see their other friends. Phew!


Zachary did a great job of decorating his 100 book.


Avaleigh was so focused on cutting out her 100 book!


John and Alexee got very creative with their 100 dots on their 100 book!


Well, today was the 101st day of school. I think it really surprised a lot of my cuties that we were here today since our 100 chart is filled up...they thought that meant no more school. Ha! So to cheer them up we had to celebrate the fact that numbers go on past 100 by watching 101 Dalmatians and decorating our doggies with 101 spots and writing about it!



Isn't Emilio's polka dotted puppy cute?!?!


These two sports guys were my PE All Stars today. Way to go!



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Happy 100th day!!!

Can you believe that we've been in school for 100 days now?!?! Can you believe that your kiddos are 100 days smarter?!?! I'm seriously proud of how much these kids have learned this year! And seriously can't believe how much they've aged just over the weekend! Ha!

We had a great morning working on lots of activities focusing on the number 100. I think this was the quietest they've been all year! Maybe we should celebrate the 100th day everyday. Just kidding! I'm just sad that I didn't get to stick around all day to finish celebrating this fun day.


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I went home at lunch to take care of this sweet little face while dealing with the flu. Sadly, she didn't get to partake in her 100th day of school activities and wear her hat that she decorated with 100 "blobs" of glitter glue. So she asked me to show it to my friends in my class.


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We had a pretty Good Friday! I was proud of my kiddos for really following the rules today so we played some games (shhh...don't tell your kiddos that they were learning too! Ha!). Who says you can't have fun while learning?


During Phonics, we played a version of "What am I?" The kids LOVED this and asked when would we get to play again!


During Writing, the kids wrote about Groundhog Day. Check out Nolan's unprompted diagram of a groundhog's burrow! Wow!


I know it's hard to see, but Jessica did a great job of writing about the groundhog coming out if its hole. I'm seriously impressed with these cuties by how much they have grown in their writing!


Mrs. Jenkins came today and talked more about classifying.


She really had them thinking about different ways to classify today! I even had to think a little extra on some of her groupings! ;)


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