St. Patricks Day & Parent Reader

With St. Patricks Day being the Monday after Spring Break, it snuck up on us fast! We made some hats to wear during the day and did a writing activity about the six things we would wish for if a leprechaun gave us a rainbow of wishes! We used our brains to really figure out how to spell the things we were wishing for by sound spelling them out!

We also had a parent reader on Monday! Ethan's mom came in to read to our class and bring Ethan's treats for his birthday that he had over Spring Break! She read us a Dr. Seuss book, an alien one, and a Bad Kitty book, which we always love! Thanks for coming to read to us!

Ms. Schlegel's Family Came To Visit

During lunch, Ms. Schlegel got a call from her nieces and nephew (that have been begging her to come see her classroom and meet the kindergarteners!) and they were in Lincoln with my mom and wanted to come visit. After specials, we had a surprise when we came back in the room as they were all here to read a book!

Tracey (Ms. Schlegel's mom) read a book about Valentine's Day that got us excited for Friday and celebrating in our classroom! Then Callen, who is a first grader, read one of the books from our room. This gave lots of our kids some big motivation to read that same book on their own in the next few days and many of them did great! Addison read another book on the camera as well!

They loved having visitors and can't wait to have more sometime soon. Some of Ms. Schlegel's family finally got to come visit and they loved it!

Parent Reader!

Jeter's Mom came in to read to us last Friday. It happened to be the Friday before Jeter's birthday so she read our class a few different books. They love it when we have visitors!

Thanks so much for coming!

(Remember you can always come read to our class if you are able to take off work or have time. You are always welcome in our classroom! )

One more week done!

We've been in school for almost 20 days! It's hard to believe since it is moving so fast! I hope all of your kids are loving Kindergarten. I am enjoying all of them so much! Even though we are all tired at the end of every day (including me!) we have a lot of fun during the day!

We have jumped full force into literacy stations and guided reading time! The children are learning how to work independently, with another person, or with a small group. They might have told you a few things they have been working on like syllables, rhyming words, and matching uppercase and lowercase letters.

We have also been working on Brownie Points in our room! Brownie Points are brownies we get on a cookie sheet when the whole class is following directions and listening! When we get to 5 brownies we get a prize!

This morning we wrapped up our Health and Safety unit! We have been learning all about how to stay safe at home, in the classroom, and outside. This morning we finished up with a safety walk around the school to look for some of the signs we had learned about! The kids spotted lots of stop signs and traffic lights and we even got to cross at the crosswalk! Ask your children if they recognize any signs while you're out and about!

We also made a safety snack today and created a traffic light out of graham crackers, frosting, and m and m's. They really loved it!

We had our first parent reader this morning thanks to LaTava! The kids loved it and were talking about it the rest of the day! We have lots of times open if anyone would like to come join us! Just shoot me an email!

I hope you all have a great weekend! I'm excited to jump into another week!