Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!

Today was such a fun day in K-1! We learned all about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of having the day off from school this coming Monday due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We watched a Brainpop Jr. movie and I read them a book to learn all about him and why we have a "special' holiday in honor of him and all his hard work. To go along with all we learned, we made a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. TLC project. I am SO proud of what AMAZING listeners all my kindergarten friends were and their projects turned out absolutely amazing! Here are some pictures of some of my kindergarten friends with their adorable Martin Luther King, Jr. projects.

In math, we did a shape packet reviewing the 2D (flat) and 3D (solid) shapes. I noticed as I was assessing for conferences my kinders could use little more practice learning a few of the "tricky" shapes. This packet was wonderful review! We had a great day today! Have a wonderful long weekend everyone and enjoy the "extra" day off on Monday! I will look forward to seeing all my kindergarten friends on Tuesday and don't forget we have LMC on that day. Please make sure youc child brings their library book!

Polar Bears

Today we had so much fun learning all about Polar Bears and making the CUTEST project to go along with it. Before we made the project today we listened to a video that taught us all about Polar Bears. We learned so many "new" interesting facts! Did you know that Polar Bears fur looks white to humans but their fur is really made of translucent fur. We also learned that male polar bears can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and a female polar bear can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. They are beautiful, big, strong animals! To go along with what we learned, we painted a polar bear face by using white paint and forks. The class used the forks to spread the paint from the middle of the paper out to make it look like a face. Next, they cute out the polar bear face pieces and glued it on the face. After that, we sat as a class and I wrote on a piece of chart paper what polar bears CAN, HAVE, ARE. We wrote some facts in each catergory such as: Polar bears CAN swim, Polar Bears HAVE sharp claws, Polar Bears ARE heavy. Then I gave them writing paper and asked them to write down one or two facts they learned about polar bears today. They all did such a great job with their polar bear project and sharing what they learned! Yay, K-1!

In math, we finished up Chapter 5 and the class was so excited to bring home their finished math books today! They don't neeed to bring them back, we are done with the first math book and it is theirs to keep. I will be handing out the next math book to them next week as we begin Chapter 6. We are plugging right along in math and they are all doing such a great job learning all the new concepts! In HMH, we are learning more letters and sounds and I am so proud of what wonderful readers and writers they are becoming! This week, we learned possessive nouns and talked about identifying the central idea of a story. My kindegarten friends are learning so much and I am amazed with how much they have all grown as learners! Have a great weekend, everyone and GO BEARS!!!

Alphabet From The Sky

Today I read an informational text to the class for our HMH literacy lesson. This book was a really neat book that used satellite imagery to find accidental letters in landscapes created by buildings, roads, buildings, railroads. The class LOVED this book and finding the hidden letters on each page before they were revealed to us! One of the pages of the book had a satellite picture taken of a landscape in Inverness not far from Olive. They thought that was so neat! To go along with this informational text, I had them do an activity where I asked them to draw the first letter of their name hidden in a picture of a community like the book we just read. I was so proud of the creativity and hard work they put into this activity and I was amazed with their detailed drawings. They had so much fun with it. Way to go, K-1! Here are some pictures of them creating their drawings and some of them with their finished work.

We had a busy day today moving along in our routine from break and I am so amazed with how well they are all doing plugging right along with curriculum in reading, writing and math! They are having so much fun with all we are learning and I am amazed with how quickly they are learning new concepts. The past two days we have been learning about possessive nouns and they are doing great learning about this challenging new concept and having fun showing me what they learned. Way to go, K-1! Have a great night, everyone!

Happy New Year!

I LOVE greeting my kinders back at school today! I have missed them all so much! It was so fun seeing them as they all came into the classroom with HUGE smiles and excited hellos and hugs! I was amazed with how well they have adjusted so quickly back to our kindergarten routine today and how well they all listened and followed directions. What a fun day! Today in class, we made our January calendars. My kinder friends had so much fun making their calendars and seeing all the exciting things that are happening in our classroom and at Olive. They LOVED learning how to make snowflakes out of paper and the surprise of seeing how they turned out when they opened them. Their calendars turned out great and it was so fun to see how different they all were with everyone's snowflake creations! Here are some pictures of my kinder friends with their January calendars:

Other than making the fun calendars, we learned about shape patterns in math, another HMH letter sound, had Library with Mrs. Brown, and had time to play with one another. The room had so much fun energy and joy and it was truly a fun day today! I look forward to another great one tomorrow!

What a fun Friday!

Our day today was filled with holiday cheer and lots of smlies and giggles! It was such a fun day! In the morning, my little kindergarten friends made Rudolph hats and they turned out SO CUTE! They LOVED wearing them and had fun taking some class pictures as reindeers!

We did a color by number activity where they colored specific numbers specific colors. As they colored, a hidden picture was revealed. They LOVED doing this activity to guess what it would be as they colored. When the numbers were all colored in, they found that it was a picture of Rudolph. This activity was wonderful number recognition practice in identifying numbers 1-100. Great job, K-1!

In math, I gave them the chapter test on Shapes and they all did AMAZING!!!! They are all flat and solid shape experts and they did a wonderful job learning the names of the shapes, how many sides and corners they have and differences among them. They learned how you can put shapes together to make bigger shapes and we also learned shape patterns too. When we come back from winter break, we will be working more with patterns and ensuring they understand this math concept.

This afternoon, was filled with nothing but fun!!! We had indoor playtime, watched Arthur's Christmas, had Storytime with the Pricipals, and ended our day with Art. They had the BEST day and our room was full of smiles, giggles and fun!!! Have a wonderful winter break everyone and Happy Holidays! I hope you find time to stay in your pajamas a little longer and have so much fun making new holiday memories with our little ones! They are all such a joy to teach and I am very thankful I get to be their kindegarten teacher this year! I will see you all in 2026!