Random Learning Fun

Bailey is making and ordering her numbers from 0-10 and then from 10-0.

Trey does an excellent job reading to the class.

Gingerbread Man Day

Ms. Montez found the GBM in Dr. Beaird's office!

Mrs. Williams reads another clue from the GBM.

Ms. Williams finds the first clue left by the GBM. It was in the cafeteria!

Anthony was crowned our Gingerbread Man King. The class voted on the best GBM impersonator and they chose Anthony!


Crowing our GBM King.

Mmmmm... I hope they don't run away!

Ana decorating her GBM.

The whale table decorates their GBM cookies.

*** pictures are in reverse order for some odd reason

Week 16 Newsletter

Kindergarten Newsletter
Week 16
Dec. 14-18


School to Home Connection
(Week 16)
Focus letter: Yy
This week’s passwords: was
Shape of the week: star

Poem of the Week:

Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.


Winter Party Details:

We need parents/volunteers to be at the school by 1:00pm to help set up. Please sign in at the office. If you let your child’s teacher know in advance that you are coming, your sticker will already be printed out in the office. Please remember that siblings are not allowed to attend the party.

Important Dates
Dec. 7th: Toys for Tots drive begins
Dec. 17th: Pajama Day (wear your pjs)
Dec. 18th: Winter Party (1:45-2:45)
Dec. 21st- Jan. 1st: Winter Break
Jan. 4th: Return to school

Busy Times!

I sincerely apologize for slacking on updating the blog -- but as I am sure you all know this is an extremely busy time of the year -- at work and at home too. However, I promise that very soon I will be making a billion posts about what we have been doing in class (our gingerbread man hunt, our GBM king, winter projects, etc).

Important Dates
Dec. 17th: Pajama Day (wear your pjs)
Dec. 18th: Winter Party (1:45-2:45)
Dec. 21st- Jan. 1st: Winter Break
Jan. 4th: Return to school

Preparing to become Native Americans

Bailey and Citlali work on their bear skins.

Evan and Mia (Makawee) finish up decorating their bear skins.

Rubbing the bear skin (paper bag) into the carpet to make it soft.

Pow wow time

Pow-wow

Practicing our Native American names. Evan's name was Elsu.

Turkey Trot & Thanksgiving Feast

The pilgrims trying to catch their turkey for dinner.

Mrs. Williams and Andrew (the pilgrim baby??)

Moki aka Mohammad and his family.

Weeko aka Sarah and her dad.

Salali aka Alysha and her mommy.

Tolinka and her daddy.

Lulu aka Alexa and her family + Satinka aka Ana

Tocho aka Trey and his family.

Turkey Trot activities

The lovely pilgrims and the turkey.

Turkey Trot fun!

Yazhi aka Christina

Tolinka aka Bailey

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chanting Native American names

Great Example of Homework Log

(click on the picture to view the entire log)

Turkey Trot

Parents please don't forget to turn in the orange Turkey Trot permission slip. YOU do not have to walk with your child but you certainily are more than welcome to!

Math Centers with my Math Masters

Alysha and Chris work with tanagrams to make pictures.

Sarah is "setting the table" with her tanagrams,

Zoish and Christina race to match the number of spiders to the number on the card.

This group is busy working on filling in the hundred's chart.

Ana and Trey work on their math match up puzzles.

Kristy is using cubes to make the addition problem 10 + 10. Her cute puppy is there to help her if she needs it :)

Alexa makes 12 because 6+6=12. I love how she already has them lined up in an array. Little does she know that she is ahead of the game!!

Veteran's Day Celebration

The pledgers introduce themselves.
Flying our donated flag from Matthew Anderson's (4th grade) father.

Coach Ingram raising the flag.

Getting ready to pledge.

Waiting to sing "America the Beautiful".

We had yet another wonderful Veteran's Day celebration outside CAE this year! I was impressed with how many students, faculty, and even parents dressed in red, white, and blue!

Free Choice Centers

Kylee and Chris building robots.

Bilaal is obviously the class clown!

Bilaal, Anthony, and Christina have fun in the dramatic play center. They created their own rock band!

Alysha, Zoish, and Bailey whip up a late lunch in the home center.

Alexa, Kristy (with a silly Bilaal hiding behind her), and Trey play math games on the Leap Frogs.

Sarah, Garrett, Evan, and Mohammad get creative with play doh. All while the crazy Bilaal sneaks into yet another picture!

Sorting Leaves and 50's Day

First, we sorted our leaves by color.

We also sorted our leaves by size.

The kindergarten team celebrating the 50th day of school.

The socs and greasers :)