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!