December Sharing Homework

Homework for the week of Dec. 3-7:       Decorate your gingerbread person!  Please turn in your decorated gingerbread person anytime during the week of Dec. 3^rd for our gingerbread display!  You will find your child’s gingerbread person in his/her Friday Folder.  Your child chose this colorful gingerbread person and he/she may choose either side to decorate.  Be sure to cut it out and have your child write his/her name on the back.  Be creative and use glitter, cotton balls, fabric, paint, pipe cleaners…

Homework for the week of Dec. 10-14:        Family Traditions-share a family tradition (special book, activity, cooking/recipe, etc.).

Homework for the week of Dec. 17-21:           Bring in one sharing item of your own choosing.

Our Classroom Holiday Party will be on Friday, Dec. 21 from 2:00 - 3:20.

Pajama Day is Thursday, Nov. 29th!

We will have Pajama Day and a special movie on Thursday, Nov. 29th as part of the ROAR reward that we earned as a school for great fundraising!  Plan to have your child wear his/her pajamas to school on Thursday if he/she would like to do so.  If not, have your child wear some comfy clothes to school on Thursday.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sharing Reminder

In case you need a refresher, next week's sharing homework is...

Homework for the week of Nov. 26 - 30: Mystery Letter!  Choose any letter of the alphabet and choose an object that begins with that letter. Write 3 clues about your object to share with the class. For example: Starts with the letter B. You can bounce it. It is round. Answer: BALL!  Place your object in a bag so your friends cannot see it!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

We wish all of our families a wonderful Thanksgiving!  

We are thankful for each and every one of YOU!

Our New Mystery Book Bag!

His Nina has been busy sewing!  Our friend unveiled our December Mystery Book Bag and we are excited to use it.  Our December theme is Gingerbread so this bag is PERFECT:)  We are so thankful for Nina and her generous spirit!!!!

Thought you might like to see this...

Our 3 Kindergarten classes made this for our Veterans Day assembly.  

This was proudly displayed in the gym for all to see:)

The Author Chair is warming up again!

 I Need a Hug, Please was a new book that this author shared with us:)

 My Candy Wrappers was full of facts!

 Dear and This is Me was shared by this author.

This author is back again with a new treat, A Tooty-Ta!

Short week...

Please note that we only have school on Monday and Tuesday this week due to Thanksgiving break.  There will be NO school on November 21, 22, and 23.

Friday Cooking!

A BIG thank you goes to Emma's mom for coming to our classroom on Friday for cooking.  Our cooking friends made yummy turkey cookies for all of us to enjoy:)  We LOVE our cooking parents!  Please sign-up for an empty date on our cooking calendar.  Please contact me and I will let you know which dates we still need to fill.

Our Field Trip to Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve

Thank you to the moms and dads who drove on our field trip last week.  We are thankful for your help and the giving of your time.  We used 4 of our 5 senses while we explored the trails and wooded area in the preserve.  The children enjoyed using their hand lenses to see things even closer.  I am sure you can guess which sense we did NOT use:)

 

Our hand lenses at work!  There was so much to investigate.

 

 Milkweed seeds were fun to blow all around us and watch them float away!

 Examining some duckweed scooped fresh from the pond!

Veterans Day was GREAT!

Everyone was decked out in variations of red, white, and blue in honor of  Veterans Day.

Our Veterans Day assembly was so meaningful with a record number of 

veterans attending.  All of the children sang some beautiful songs in honor of the veterans.

No School on Nov. 8 and 9!

Don't forget that there is no school on Thursday, Nov. 8 and Friday, Nov. 9 due to conferences.  Enjoy a well-deserved break!  See you back in school on Monday:)

Election Day!

We had many activities that focused around Election Day.  We voted for favorite books, snacks, songs, games, choice time activities, and much more.  We also made T-graphs and asked the question: Which do you prefer?  Some examples were: pink vs. purple, the letter Kk vs. the letter Ll, snakes vs. turtles, pancakes vs. eggs.  The children had fun asking classmates as well as other teachers in our school which item he/she preferred.  We also made Voter Identification Cards and used them when we voted in our voting booth.

 We made Voter Identification Cards!

A friend is voting privately in our voting booth.

 Another friend is casting her ballot into our top-secret voting container.

 The results of our class election! 

Lucky us!

During the month of October, we enjoyed our Halloween Mystery Book bag.  Each day, a new book was revealed and we enjoyed a Halloween inspired read-aloud.  Now that October has come and gone, the children were so sad that the Mystery Book bag was to be put away.  At conferences, I asked if anyone was able to make some new Mystery Book bags for our class and ........this morning our class was surprised by one of our friends.  His grandma worked very hard over the weekend and made this beautiful bag for our class!  Everyone was ecstatic!  There was even a book inside to start us off...

TA DA!

 

Told you we'd be back!!!!

A first time visit from this author:)  She read her non-fiction book, Fruit, to us this afternoon!

She's back.........with At School!  Another gem:)

This author is back with two new books of different sizes!  The smaller book is called, The Little World and the larger book is called, Mercy Watson: M is for Mercy #20!

She has returned with MORE BOOKS!  The books she shared with us are My Picture Book, One Duck Sat on a Gate, and 1,2,3...Two Emmas!

We may need to take reservations...

We have had a record number of books written these past couple weeks!  I am thinking that we may need to take reservations just so we can be sure that the Author's Chair is available!  What a wonderful problem to have!!!!!!

I Went on a Field Trip and Mercy Watson #8

Cookie

On the First Day of Christmas

The Book of the Apple was a first for this author!

This author is back with two new stories: The Job for Witilda and 

Witilda went Sledding and Got a Job at Ding-a-Lings

The Pumpkin Book

The Pumpkin Patch and the Apples

Back again!!!  I Saw East and Other Stuff

and again...No More Nick!  Now it is Funny!

and again...The All Different Sorts of Drawings Book

We have authors coming out of our ears!  All of the authors have had a chance to read their book to the class and to Mr. Rich in the office!  Our Author Basket is OVERFLOWING so be prepared for more posts very soon!

Veterans Day is Monday, Nov. 12th

We are having a fantastic assembly in honor of Veterans Day on Monday afternoon at 2:20.  All are welcome to attend this very moving celebration.  Your child has been practicing a special song in honor of this day that the kindergarten will sing. We have a record number of Veterans attending this year, so please consider attending! 

Our music teacher, Mrs. Larson, has a request in regards to Monday:
Parents~please make sure your child wears any combination of red, white, and blue on Monday, November 12.  Our Veterans Art Gallery will be open for viewing at 2 p.m., and our celebration begins at 2:20 p.m. with a Veteran processional.

Chess Team

Chess Team- There will be no chess team on Tuesday, November 6th, due to the presidential election. We will start up again on November 13th. Please e-mail Miss Mitchell with any questions. (smitchel@egrps.org)

Election Day is on Tuesday!

Please have your child wear red, white, and/or blue on Tuesday in honor of Election Day.  We will be voting for many things in our classroom that day: favorite song, favorite book, favorite snack, etc. Don't forget to exercise your right to VOTE!

Parent Teacher Conferences are on Monday, Nov. 5th!

I look forward to seeing many of you at Parent Teacher conferences on Monday. 
Please see below for your assigned time.  See you soon!




Monday, November 5th
                        
                        3:45        Emma

4:00        Petra

4:15       Reagan                   

4:30      Jori

4:45      Brecken

5:00      Cole

5:15       dinner

                  5:30       Henry
                     5:45      Brooklyn
                     6:00      Lauren
                     6:15       Max
                     6:30      Grace
                     6:45      George
                     7:00      Samantha