Friday!!!!!!!

This morning was fun!  We rotated between four stations - we love doing that!  One of the stations was making rainbow fish with tissue paper and liquid starch - which by the way is a bit hard to find these days!  We took turns "writing the room", filling out a comprehension worksheet about the book we read "The Rainbow Fish", and our other station is a secret!  A lovely day indeed!  I will be at the Ordway Carnival this afternoon running the "Cake Walk" room.....come on down and win a cake!!!!!

R & R in the Secret Laboratory....cute, huh?!?!?!

 

Thursday!!!!

The day just FLEW by....we worked on our stories, our barn books, writing our names using an uppercase letter to start with and lowercase for the rest (NO cApiTaL letters mixed in!), read wonderful books  "Tough Chicks" and "Guji Guji" and "10 Things I Can Do To Help My World", worked on our calendar markers, and painted our ocean background mural (and a bit of the floor and rug also...).

Wednesday!!!

Yaaay......a beautiful, sunny day!!!  It was non-stop action in here - lots of reading and writing.  We liked "Funny Farm" and "Story County Here We Come!".  We had a Superflex lesson with Ms. Bautista, our occupational therapist.  We are learning to be better friends.  This time of the year is a little rough for our kindergartners - they act more like brothers and sisters than friends!  We are REALLY working on it - these earnest kindergartners get to put a bubble on the board for every good deed done.... 

We ended the day with our Reading Buddies, some extra recess in the sun, and PE!!!!

I sent home Scholastic Book Orders.  You can order online.  If you haven't done this before you will have type in an activation code which is H9MPX.

Tuesday!!!

We worked hard on our stories today.  We started with a Story Map, writing some quick notes about our characters, settings, problem and solution.  Then it was time to dictate the story to Ms. Jowise or Ms. Keller.  We will continue tomorrow!  

It is getting closer and closer to the end of the year.....don't want to even contemplate it!  We have some special events coming up....please save the dates!

• ARTIST AND AUTHOR NIGHT     Tuesday, May 31st   7 - 8

               This is our big event!!! Come and spend some time touring the room to view your child's art and writing.  Songs will be sung, poems will be recited and refreshments will be served.  Bring the whole family!

• MR. ADAIR'S BIRTHDAY  Friday, June 3rd

              We will celebrate with treats and a student-made gift!

•  BLAKELY PICNIC   Friday, June 3rd   5:30 - 7:30

              Bring your picnic dinner and sit on the lawn with your Blakely family.  Mr. Rothbaum will sing for us and there will be ice-cream sandwiches! 

• FAYE BAINBRIDGE FIELD TRIP     Monday, June 13th    9 - 12

                Our year-end picnic happens this day.  Kindergartners will bring a sack lunch, we'll play on the playground, the beach and the logs, fly a kite and do a beach craft.  Parents (no siblings, sorry!) are welcome to come!

• OUTDOOR SNACK DAY   Friday, June 10

               Send an extra-special snack with your child.  We will trade snacks and listen to some great stories under a tree!

• TIE DYE DAY    Tuesday, June 14th   8 - 11

               We will be tie dying t-shirts with our Reading Buddies.  You will need to send a NEW, white, washed t-shirt with your kindergartner.  The dyes I use are BEAUTIFUL and very permanent.  Send your darlings in old pants that day in case they kneel in the dye!  I would love to have some volunteers to help with the mayhem!!!

We are taking turns doing R & R in the secret laboratory...how cool is that?!?!!!
 

Monday!!!!

A happy crowd entered Room 2 this morning!  They did their morning job, got lots of visiting in, and came down to the rug for some stories and some core-strengthening!!!  Stronger cores help them sit up on the rug for longer periods of time...works for me not to have them lying all over the place when I am reading stories and we are actively participating in what I call "Kindergarten Learning Time"!!!  We loved the books this morning "Three Hens and a Peacock" and "Too Busy Marco".  It's very wonderful to be able to see the reactions on their faces when they get the humorous twists in the stories I read.  Very cute!  We are working on our own stories!

The kindergartners had a chance to play in the Secret Laboratory finally - it was on display in the foyer after we finished it on Friday!

Discussed and read a long list of high-frequency words.....a whole lot of reading is going on around here!

Birthday cupcakes, free-choice and all of our recesses outside today....couldn't ask for more (well, except for maybe a little more sunshine so clothing stays dry when your little darling is zipping down the slide)!

 

Friday!

We started out the day anticipating the space shuttle launch!  We read a really great book "Astronaut Notebook".   Then we went to the NASA website, to watch the live coverage of preparation for the launch....we LOVED all of it!  We saw the astronauts get in the bus to take them to the launch pad and then the mission was delayed until Monday!  We will try again!

We had our big reveal for THE BOX....it is sitting in the foyer for all to see.

We read a lovely book "Friends" and did some quick worksheet projects around it.  We spent time in the computer lab - had birthday cupcakes.....it was another wonderful day in Room 2!!!

Thursday!!!

We read some a wonderful book "Amelia & Eleanor Go For a Ride".  We talked a bit about the White House and I told the students I would send this link home to learn more!

We are also enjoying "Why?".

More handwriting practice happened today, and wow, these kindergartners are really starting to look like first-graders already!