Giving thanks....

 Happy Thanksgiving!
Please check out the short video of your cute little children!
Over the past couple weeks we have been talking a lot about things we are thankful for. On Veteran's Day we talked about how people in the military help keep us safe and free! We made turkeys and wrote the veterans a note and gave them to the Veteran's Hospital for the Veterans to enjoy. We also had fun making turkeys and talking about everything we have that we are thankful for.

I wanted to let you all know how very thankful I am...
I am blessed with a healthy family and a job that I love! I so thankful that I get to work with your children every day! I hope you all enjoy the long weekend!

Nov. 15th, 2012

Things to know....
We have been working super hard everyday at school!
*Math - we are finishing up Unit 2. We know so much about math- patterns, shapes, numbers to 20, writing our numbers and we are still enjoying doing our daily math routines and doing our finger flashes (ask your child to show you their numbers - today we did 64).

*Reading and Writing - we are working hard on reading pattern books, please have your child find some of the words they know when you are reading books at night. Hopefully they are starting to sound out some of the words and trying to help you read! We are working on writing simple sentences, we know that every sentence starts with a capital letter

*Sink/Float - We LOVE experimenting during science time. We are trying to figure out why some items float on top of the water and why some objects sink to the bottom. We even learned a special word - displacement - please ask your child what it means.

*Veterans Day - We made turkeys and wrote a note to our veterans and will be sending them out and giving them to Veterans. We LOVE our veterans!!!!

*Next Monday, Nov. 19th is Skate night at Skate Zone from 6-8. I am going to try and be there with my two little kiddos and my wonderful, patient husband! We hope to see you there!

Election Day

                         

Our Voice... Our Vote!!!!

We had an amazing time talking about the election process. Since we are too young to vote, we had our own special election in our classroom. We thought it would be fun to see if the kindergarteners in Mrs. Schroeder's room and our room liked Red or Blue Jello more. We made voter registration cards, we talked about how the jellos were different and then finally we got to taste each kind of jello and vote for which one we like the best! Blue jello won with 24 votes to 16. We had quite a few friends that were upset because they had voted for red jello, but we were able to have a wonderful discussion about how sometimes the things/people we vote for don't win and that we always just have to be okay with whatever the outcome and hope for the best! 
Please check out our election day video!

Alphafriends

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing     We have been working very hard on learning our alphafriends! The kids LOVE singing this song everyday - the alphafriends are helping us become better readers!!!! They help us remember the letters and the sounds they make! I apologize that there is a green line in the middle of the video - Mrs. Woita is trying her hardest to figure out this technology!