We had a great week this week. We are ALL so excited for Christmas.
We had so much fun finishing up our Happy Holiday theme. We loved making our picture frames for our parents and finishing up our gifts for Mom and Dad, we hope you love them.
Frosting sugar cookies was great, thanks to everyone that brought in supplies.
I think the highlight of this week was definitely having Santa visit our school and deliver our special gifts. I think all of our students thought this was really special.
I hope you all have a GREAT Christmas, I can't wait to see you all on Wednesday the 2nd of January.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Happy Holidays!
I can not believe Christmas is almost here! This week we did lots of fun things all around our holiday theme. It was super fun.
We made jingle bell necklaces, a Christmas gift for our parents (don't even ask, I won't tell you, it's a surprise), and our Holiday suncatcher. Just a reminder, we will be making a suncatcher for every holiday this year, so save your hook. If you need a new one, please let me know, but we will NOT send one home with each new suncatcher.
We also learned a lot this week, we counted to 80, learned the letter and sound of J, practiced the number 9, sorted, patterened, and added another sight word-He, to the other 10 that we have already learned.
Your children are doing such a great job taking on new information.
Next week we will be bringing home some other projects we have been working on and finishing up everything before our Holiday break. We will also be frosting and decorating our holiday cookies. If you are planning on sending cookies, frosting or other toppings (we DO NOT need sprinkles) for this project please have it to school no later than Monday. Thanks for your support.
We made jingle bell necklaces, a Christmas gift for our parents (don't even ask, I won't tell you, it's a surprise), and our Holiday suncatcher. Just a reminder, we will be making a suncatcher for every holiday this year, so save your hook. If you need a new one, please let me know, but we will NOT send one home with each new suncatcher.
We also learned a lot this week, we counted to 80, learned the letter and sound of J, practiced the number 9, sorted, patterened, and added another sight word-He, to the other 10 that we have already learned.
Your children are doing such a great job taking on new information.
Next week we will be bringing home some other projects we have been working on and finishing up everything before our Holiday break. We will also be frosting and decorating our holiday cookies. If you are planning on sending cookies, frosting or other toppings (we DO NOT need sprinkles) for this project please have it to school no later than Monday. Thanks for your support.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!
We had such a fun week. Our theme was gingerbread pals and we definitely loved bringing the theme to life.
We made lots of really cute gingerbread crafts, I think the favorite was the gingerbread notebook. We also learned lots of things; we used gingerbread pals to help us recognize our letters and match numbers to a gingerbread pal with dots on his tummy. We also patterned and sorted our gingerbread pals. We started counting by 10's and worked a lot rhyming and finding the rhyme in various words.
I think the highlight of the week was learning the story of The Little Gingerbread Boy. I almost had a heart attack when Miss Jen said she had never heard it, It was my favorite story as a child, my Grandma had it on tape (yes I am that old, who knows maybe it was an 8 track, I am even that old) and I would listen to it over and over. Anyway, we carried the theme over to our field trip where we acted the story out. It was soooooo cute.
We went to the Treehouse Museum for our field trip, we all had lots of fun stepping into our story.
We made lots of really cute gingerbread crafts, I think the favorite was the gingerbread notebook. We also learned lots of things; we used gingerbread pals to help us recognize our letters and match numbers to a gingerbread pal with dots on his tummy. We also patterned and sorted our gingerbread pals. We started counting by 10's and worked a lot rhyming and finding the rhyme in various words.
I think the highlight of the week was learning the story of The Little Gingerbread Boy. I almost had a heart attack when Miss Jen said she had never heard it, It was my favorite story as a child, my Grandma had it on tape (yes I am that old, who knows maybe it was an 8 track, I am even that old) and I would listen to it over and over. Anyway, we carried the theme over to our field trip where we acted the story out. It was soooooo cute.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
December Calendar
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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
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Sat
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2
Weekly Theme(s)
Letter I
Gingerbread
Pals
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3
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4
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5
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6
Field Trip
10:00-11:30 AM
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7
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8
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9
Weekly Theme(s)
Letter J
Happy Holidays
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10
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11
Happy Birthday
Samarah S. (11)
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12
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13
Happy Birthday
Garrett F. (14)
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14
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15
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16
Weekly Theme(s)
Happy Holidays
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17
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18
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19
Happy Birthday
Mark S. (19)
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20
Happy Birthday
Miss Angie
Decorate Cookies
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21
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22
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23
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24
No School
Christmas Break
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25
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26
No School
Christmas Break
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27
No School
Christmas Break
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28
No School
Christmas Break
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29
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30
Weekly Theme(s)
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31
No School
Christmas Break
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1/1
No School
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1/2
Happy Un-birthday
Raygun A. (12/30)
London F. (7/1)
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1/3
Happy Un-Birthday
Trevonr R (7/2)
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1/4
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1/5
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt!
We had a great week! We learned all about bears; when they hibernate, what they eat and where they live. We also took our own bears on a bear hunt.
I can definitely tell that Christmas is right around the corner, there is more energy in our classroom than ever before. December is always such a fun month, but by the end of it I am always ready for it to be over.
This week we will learn about the letter I, number 7 and The Gingerbread Man.
We will also be going on a field trip to the Treehouse Museum on Thursday. Don't forget to return your envelopes by Tuesday.
We all miss Miss Jen and unfortunately her recovery is not coming as fast as she wanted. She will not return this week, but hopefully, she will be ready to come back next week. Again, if any of you would like to come in and volunteer, I would be happy to have you.
I can definitely tell that Christmas is right around the corner, there is more energy in our classroom than ever before. December is always such a fun month, but by the end of it I am always ready for it to be over.
This week we will learn about the letter I, number 7 and The Gingerbread Man.
We will also be going on a field trip to the Treehouse Museum on Thursday. Don't forget to return your envelopes by Tuesday.
We all miss Miss Jen and unfortunately her recovery is not coming as fast as she wanted. She will not return this week, but hopefully, she will be ready to come back next week. Again, if any of you would like to come in and volunteer, I would be happy to have you.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
We had a great two weeks learning all about Thanksgiving. We learned about the Native Americans and Pilgrims and how they celebrated the first Thanksgiving, and of course, we had a Thanksgiving feast of our own. Thanks to everyone that provided food items for the feast and the moms that volunteered.
We also learned about turkey's and the students made their own turkey recipe's. I hope you enjoyed their recipe books, I know I did!!!
Thanks to Drayden's mom for teaching the afternoon class this cute song.
Next week we will be learning about bears, the letter H and the number 7.
I do want to let you know that Miss Jen will be out for the next week or two. She was taken in today (Monday) for an unexpected surgery. It went well, but she will be recovering for a while. If any of you have volunteer days to make up, or just want to come in and volunteer, this would be a great two weeks to do it.
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Farmer in the Dell!
We had such a great week learning all about farming & harvesting. We started the week learning about scarecrows and why farmers use them. Next, we talked about farms and what animals we might find on a farm then we made a fun animal farm craft. Lastly we learned about what crops might grow on a farm. It was great being able to talk about our field trip to Black Island Farms and put our learning into real life.
I think the highlight of the week was definitely our gumball necklaces. Our letter of the week was G and it just seemed like the kids would love it...well they did. They were asking all week why Miss Jen and I were poking holes in gumballs and I kept telling them they would have to wait until Thursday to find out. I think that quite a few of them thought they might actually die if they didn't find out sooner. I am happy to say that they did not in fact die, so that was a relief.
I can't believe I am saying this, but next week we will begin talking about Thanksgiving, yes I said it, Thanksgiving. It should be a super fun week. If you have not signed up to bring a food item for our Thanksgiving feast, and you would like to, the sign up is on the front desk.
See you all on Monday!!!
I think the highlight of the week was definitely our gumball necklaces. Our letter of the week was G and it just seemed like the kids would love it...well they did. They were asking all week why Miss Jen and I were poking holes in gumballs and I kept telling them they would have to wait until Thursday to find out. I think that quite a few of them thought they might actually die if they didn't find out sooner. I am happy to say that they did not in fact die, so that was a relief.
I can't believe I am saying this, but next week we will begin talking about Thanksgiving, yes I said it, Thanksgiving. It should be a super fun week. If you have not signed up to bring a food item for our Thanksgiving feast, and you would like to, the sign up is on the front desk.
See you all on Monday!!!
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Happy Halloween!
Wow, I can't believe Halloween was just last week. It feels like it was forever ago. We had so much fun celebrating and I am sad to see it pass.
I do hope none of your children have suffered a "Candy Coma" over the weekend. Thanks to the "Switch Witch" we have suffered no "Candy Coma's" at the Brown house. I am sure you all know the "Switch Witch" she is the NICE witch that lives on the dark side of the moon. She travels around for five days after Halloween collecting candy to feed to her cat, he LOVES candy. Anyway, my children decided how much of their Halloween candy they wanted to leave out for her and she switched it for money (I have heard that she leaves some children toys). She definitely saved us from a few tummy aches.
The students and teachers had so much fun starting our week at Black Island Farms. I hope you parents enjoyed it as well. We were so lucky to have such great weather-thanks mother nature.
Our Halloween party was a big hit, I would like to thank all of the parents that were able to help out in class on that day. I could not have done it without you! I would also like to thank all of the parents that donated items for our Candy Corn Cookies. I hope your families enjoyed them, we certainly had a great time making them.
We have a lot in store for next week, we will be talking more about farms including scarecrows and harvest time. We will also cover the letter G.
I do hope none of your children have suffered a "Candy Coma" over the weekend. Thanks to the "Switch Witch" we have suffered no "Candy Coma's" at the Brown house. I am sure you all know the "Switch Witch" she is the NICE witch that lives on the dark side of the moon. She travels around for five days after Halloween collecting candy to feed to her cat, he LOVES candy. Anyway, my children decided how much of their Halloween candy they wanted to leave out for her and she switched it for money (I have heard that she leaves some children toys). She definitely saved us from a few tummy aches.
The students and teachers had so much fun starting our week at Black Island Farms. I hope you parents enjoyed it as well. We were so lucky to have such great weather-thanks mother nature.
Our Halloween party was a big hit, I would like to thank all of the parents that were able to help out in class on that day. I could not have done it without you! I would also like to thank all of the parents that donated items for our Candy Corn Cookies. I hope your families enjoyed them, we certainly had a great time making them.
We have a lot in store for next week, we will be talking more about farms including scarecrows and harvest time. We will also cover the letter G.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
November Calendar
Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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10/28
Weekly
Themes
Halloween
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10/29
Field Trip 11AM
Black Island Farms
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10/30
Happy Birthday
Felicity S. (29)
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10/31
Halloween Carnival
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1
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2
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3
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4
Weekly Themes
Letter G
Farm
Fall Harvest
Scarecrows
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5
Happy Birthday
J.C. (4)
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
Weekly Themes
Thanksgiving
Turkeys
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12
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13
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14
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15
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16
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17
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18
Weekly Themes
Thanksgiving
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19
Book Orders
Due
*last before Christmas
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20
Thanksgiving Feast
*sign up in Lobby
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21
No School
Thanksgiving Break
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22
No School
Thanksgiving Break
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23
No School
Thanksgiving Break
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24
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25
Weekly Themes
Letter H
Bears
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26
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27
Happy Birthday
Carson (27)
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28
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29
Bring your
favorite Teddy Bear to School
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30
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