Welcome to our Ocean!

What a great week we had!  We had tons of fun learning different things about the largest habitat on Earth.... the ocean!  Please ask your child to sing our ocean song!  They were getting pretty good at it by the end of the week!  

A few things of importance:

1.  Valentine's Day is coming next week!  <3 Please have your child's Valentine's here by Feb. 14th.

2.  THANK YOU for your support with the guided reading "Book Baggies!" I really, really, really appreciate it!!  I will not send them home on Fridays.  The more we can get these kids reading the better off they are going to be.  All of you parents ROCK!!!!

3.  Parent teacher conferences are coming up at the end of next week.  I am looking forward to seeing you and discussing your child's progress in Kindergarten.  Valentine's Day is not the most opportune time to have these scheduled, so thanks goes out to those that signed up despite it.  If you did not sign up for a conference please know that I would love to talk to you anytime about your child's progress! :)

Here is a tiny snippet of things we did this week!  Enjoy!!

We made an ocean!!!  :)))))

Birthday boy!

Finding, reading, and writing "Itty Bitty Words" 

We did a few centers that were awesome!  We flipped flopped for rhymes, wrote sneaky "e" starfish words, and counted how many dots were on jellyfish!

We listened to a few awesome books about the ocean and ocean animals.

 

We learned all about starfish!  This little guy brought in his own two starfish from home.  SO sweet!!! 

We Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and then made him! :)  It is a lovely story about the joy that comes from sharing.

We "buttered" up an ocean book by highlighting all of the sight words and chunks we knew.

We are starting to learn about money in math.  This week we learned about the penny and nickel!

We wrote about oceans in our writing journal! The kids did AWESOME!!! I thought that I had flipped that picture around!  Sorry!  I've been having a problem with that lately! :)

The following pictures have no academic merit that are visible.  We had indoor recess on the rainy day this week and the kids were so cute playing I just had to snap some pictures.  Playing is an important part of kindergarten too! :)

Until next time!

We are 100 Days Smarter!!!

We are actually 107 days smarter now, but, 100's day was so fun I just had to do a post about it!  Thank you, thank you, thank you to the two parents and one awesome grandma who came into help!  It would not have gone nearly as smoothly without you!! :))))

The kids came in the room and found these little goodies at their table.  :)  

It was a sweet way to start the day.  

The first thing we did was mixed up our hundred's day snack!  


Then they got their 100's Day Celebration Ticket!  After they completed an activity they got to check it off on their ticket. :)

Here were some of the activities:  

COUNT 100 PENNIES!  They could either color the pennies as they counted OR use REAL pennies! :)

STACK 100 CUPS!!!  This was a FUN one!!!  :)))

 

MAKE A 100'S DAY CROWN!!!!

EAT 100'S DAY SNACK..... OF COURSE!! :)

DO 100 EXERCISES!

 WROTE NUMBERS 1-100!!

WROTE WHAT WE WOULD BUY WITH $100, WHAT THEY WOULD EAT 100 OF, AND WHAT THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY WERE 100 YEARS OLD.  CUTE!!!

Sorry this is sideways! :(

Lastly, we played a game called "Roll to 100." It was super fun!

Until next time!