New Beginnings

      Hi everyone and welcome to my blog! I'm excited for you to see some of what we have done the past couple of days. It has been so much fun getting to know these 23 wonderful kindergartners in room 200. Personalities are starting to come out, friendships are being made, and our classroom family is starting to form. Throughout the year, I will be putting new posts on the blog about our classroom, reminders, and pictures that I have taken of the kids. Through pictures in this post, you will find some of the fun things that we have learned and practiced so far in kindergarten.

    This probably isn't news to you, but we LOVE recess! It's a great way for our brains to get a break, and it gets us ready for the rest of our day.  

  Some reminders for you:

• If you would like, you can send up to 5 pictures of things/people/places that are important to your child to put on our door. It's a daily reminder that we are all in this together when it comes to these kids' learning and success at school.
• Please make sure that your child's folder comes back to school every day empty. It is the best way for us to communicate with one another, and it builds responsibility for the kids. 
• Scholastic Book Orders are due soon. I will send out a reminder with the date. The book orders were sent home at your child's interview. Feel free to take a look and take advantage of those great deals.

Catching Up!

Hi Everyone!

It's been too long! My cousin is at my house tonight getting her resume and cover letter ready as she begins to apply for special education teaching positions. As she is busy on her computer, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to update my blog. I have so many pictures to show you from the past month or so. The pictures you will find are from Dr. Seuss week, a play that we went to at the high school put on by MSU, book review writing, the author visit, and some Native American dancing that we were able to experience. 

At this time of the year, we are making sure that all students are secure in their kindergarten skills. We are really working hard on addition, subtraction, counting and money in math. We are also making sure that we are reading our just right books at school and at home to help get us to a level C by the end of kindergarten. You probably have noticed a lot of writing coming home, especially book reviews. Aren't they awesome? We are focusing on finger spaces between words, only using uppercase for the first letter of the sentence or "I" and stretching out our words with the sounds that we hear. We are also now starting to write informational reports, and it's going to be so much fun because we love nonfiction! Stay tuned to see those coming home in folders. 

If you click the link below, you will find a guided reading lesson that was recorded to be put on the District's YouTube site. The kindergartners are famous and are quite proud of themselves!

Kindergarten Guided Reading

We got a new projector for our smart board. The light was so bright, and we were so excited!

Meet Percy! He is my new pup. He's a 1-year old Australian shepherd and border collie mix. He sure is keeping me busy! The kindergartners love Percy stories.