August

Wow! I can't believe it is already August and I am back at school getting ready for a new group of kiddos in 2nd grade this year! I hope your FIRST GRADER is ready for a new year and are excited about school starting!

I will be going through and removing your names from the blog list so you don't have to be bothered by all of the new emails of the school year! Definitely stop by and say hello in my new room 122! I would love to see all of my kids again!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work with your child and your family. I miss all of my first year kindergarteners so much and can't wait to see them in 1st grade and around the building!

THANK YOU!!!!

In all the craziness of the last day of school, I didn't quite make it to talk to every parent! But I just wanted to say thank you for such a great year! Being a first year teacher went by much faster than I had expected and I really did love it! Thank you for all of your support through everything including me learning about your child, the MANY donations, help in the room, notes to school, and all kinds of other things! I really appreciate it all and really do love your child and working with them this year!

I hope their kindergarten year was so great for them and they are ready for 1st grade next year (I definitely think they all are)! And who knows, maybe I will be lucky and get them again in 2 years! :)

Remember if there were any pictures you definitely wanted copies of from the blog, the video, or the yearbook...let me know and I can get them to you!

(Sorry to everyone who was looking for this post, it was posted the day after school was out, and for some reason the post never went through!)

Thanks again and have a great (much needed) summer break!!

Chet Ager Field Trip

Last week we loaded up the bus on our way to Chet Ager! We split up into groups and learned a ton of stuff from our guides about trees, animals, insects, birds, plants, and lots lots more! We had so much fun and had so much to talk about when we got back!

Pictures tell our story much better than words, so enjoy!!

Walking to Ace Hardware!

We got to take a trip to Ace Hardware in our Meadow Lane neighborhood last week to purchase some items for our plant unit! It was raining every chance we got so we took advantage of a quick break in the rain to make our way there! We did a great job walking with our partners, remembering the rules, and following directions while outside of school!

When we got there we looked at some different kinds of seeds and decided which ones we wanted to plant in our pots. We looked at kinds, colors, and also how long they took to sprout to help make our decision!

Then we made our way to the soil! We had a discussion about what we were going to use the soil for and which kind we wanted. We also compared prices and decided on one based on that!

We got to the checkout counter and they added up our items and Ms. Schlegel paid for them!

Luckily, they had just finished getting the garden center up and ready to go! So we got to walk through and see what our flowers were going to look like as well as lots of other flowers and vegetables!

A customer stopped to show us some plants that had different smells and let us all smell some of the leaves she was picking!

As we were leaving, the plant truck driver stopped us and asked us if we wanted some free flowers that were still in his truck! We, of course, said yes and got to add them to our pile of items from the store! We were super excited and thanked him a lot!

We had a ton of fun and used all of our stuff to continue learning about plants. We planted the seeds in our Lorax pot as well as something else that you will get to see soon enough :)

Chet Ager Nature Center Field Trip

Thursday, May 8th we will be traveling to the Chet Ager Nature Center for our field trip. Today, (Tuesday) a note went home with some details about this field trip! If you signed up to bring a cold lunch, please remember to send it with your child on Thursday morning!

Please check the weather on Thursday morning and send your child in appropriate clothing! I would recommend old shoes and old clothes as we will be outside exploring!

We will be eating lunch in our classroom or outside of the school when we return to Meadow Lane!

As always, let me know if you have any questions at all! We are all so excited for our field trip!

Important Dates to Remember

Today in Wednesday folders a few important notes went home!

One of them is about our Lorax movie night! Please RSVP to this as we are needing to know how many children and families to expect!

The other one is about sack lunches on two special days! One of these days is our Chet Ager field trip day on Thursday, May 8th and the other one is about a day we are spending in the park on May 16th! This note is about lunch and what you would like your child to do (bring their own cold lunch or take a sack lunch from the cafeteria.) It is very important that you send this note back so we can plan for how many lunches we need!

As always, please let me know if you have any questions at all! Thanks for being so great for our class! :)

Kindergarten Family Night

Last week we had our Kindergarten Make and Take Family Night! Thank you to all of the families that came and joined us! We had a lot of fun learning all about some activities that we can work on at home and over the summer to prepare us for 1st grade!

Families either got to work on their activities together to make them and take them home, or play some of the games to get to know a little bit about them and play them when they get home.

Definitely let me know if you have any questions about any of the activities or need any help!

Thanks again to everyone who came to school!