Butterfly Release!

We let our butterflies go last week! Our kids were kind of sad because we had raised them from when they were caterpillars and now they are out in our courtyard! They flew everywhere and we all got to hold them!

More Butterflies :)

Ms. Schlegel is doing a little blog catch up today! Here are a few pictures from when we found out that our butterflies had come out of the chrysalis! We were so excited when we came into the room!

 We did a fun, simple butterfly craft where all of the butterflies stages of life was on one paper! I hope your child showed you all 4 and how to make them on their strip of paper!

Guess what?!

WE HAVE BUTTERFLIES!! :)

When I came in this morning, I had forgotten about the butterflies in their chrysalis when Mrs. Hankins asked me if I had any butterflies come out. I was so excited to go check and when I walked over there we have a couple flying around our butterfly net!

We will wait until all of our butterflies come out and then we will release them into our Meadow Lane courtyard!

Caterpillars!

Last week we got to start on our first unit...Butterflies! We received the caterpillars and we joined Mrs. Hankins class to learn how to put the food in the containers, press it down, add the caterpillar, and put gauze over the top in order for them to live and grow.

It was super fun to watch and learn about these little caterpillars and what they will soon turn in to!

When I got here this morning, this is how much our caterpillars have grown! The kiddos are going to be SO excited!

**Ms. Schlegel was losing her mind Friday, and forgot to send home the completed spelling test! We all did great and all the hard work over the week paid off! Those will be coming home today along with a new list for this week! Keep working hard on those words! :)

Homework, Math, Conferences, Donations, Owl of the Week

It was a busy week in Kindergarten last week! With Constitution Day and picture day and finishing up our social studies unit on American symbols we have been working non stop!

I have talked to lots of parents about how excited their kids are to learn all about the United States! I'm so excited that they love learning about new things! We wore red, white, and blue for Constitution Day, had red, white, and blue popsicles and did lots of crafts including a bald eagle and an American flag!

Please remember to keep reminding your child that is is their responsibility to do their homework! They are learning to take care of their own things and turn their homework in every day! Every morning I remind them to take out their homework folders and anything else they have that they may need to turn in (lunch money, Wednesday folders, or notes for me). It is so great for them to be practicing such great responsibility and they are getting very good at our routines! We are getting ready for our math test at the end of this week, so there isn't much coming home for homework!

Here was a math activity we did where we drew self portraits and made a graph of our classroom!

Just a few things..

• Conferences are October 1st - October 3rd. If you have not sent back the yellow half sheet of paper signed confirming your conference, please remember to do so as soon as possible!
• If anyone would like to come read to our classroom, let me know! We have lots of spots open and would love to see some of you!
• We also could use some more donations for our room if you are up for it! We are quickly running out of lots of items! If you would like, we could use anything from the list below
• Crayons
• Markers
• Colored Pencils
• Clorox Wipes
• Skinny Expo (Whiteboard markers)
• Kleenex
• A lot of you are bringing box tops to school! We do need a first and last name of your child on EVERY box top. I know this takes quite a bit of time, but it does help our school out a lot!
• Those of you that ordered from the book order, THANK YOU! You earned our class ten free books so we get to have a lot more variety in our classroom. We earned quite a few point too that I can use to purchase more books from our classroom as well! 
• Picture Day went great and those should be arriving in a few weeks!
• Flappy the Owl had a great weekend with Jeter this weekend picking apples. Someone new will take Flappy home this Friday, so I hope he has a blast again!
• We are starting an Owl of the Week to get to know more about our students in our class! Ms. Schlegel is the Owl of the Week this week. If it is your turn, you will get a sheet to fill out, and some instructions on what to do! The kids LOVED the picture of Ms. Schlegel in Kindergarten!

We have started Science and are learning about our five senses now! They were so excited to use the word epidermis when they got home to show you how much they have learned!

Thanks for bringing such great kids to school every day! I can't believe it is almost the end of September, it's flying by!