Hoppy Spring!!

We celebrated spring this week in kindergarten...and we loved the warm weather we had!! We hope our cold weather passes quickly by!!! We took pictures as bunnies and we made a bunny craft from our footprint!!! We hope you all have a great weekend...and a HOPPY SPRING!! Enjoy our video!!

King of the Jungle Jaxson!!

Jaxson was our king of the jungle last week and we loved getting to know him!! He brought lots of fun pictures and a stuffed bear to share with us!! He worked hard all week long and LOVED being the King of the Jungle!!! His favorite color is green and he loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (maybe that is why he likes GREEN!!!) His favorite movie is Star Wars and he loves playing football!! His favorite food to eat is hot dogs and he loves monkeys!! The song he loves most is "Everything is Awesome!!" He is special because his family loves him. He loves playing the Wii at home and when he grows up he wants to be a football player!! We LOVED learning about you this week!!! Enjoy our video!

Happy Birthday Ashton!!

Today we helped Ashton celebrate his birthday and we had SO much fun!! Of course, our elf came to visit!!! He left a hat and confetti and was having fun hiding from us! Silly elf. We made a great sign describing our friend Ashton. We hope you had a great day!!!

Happy birthday!!!

Ashton and our silly elf!!

Happy Birthday Alyssa!!!

We recently celebrated Alyssa's birthday and we had a great time with her!! Our birthday elf left confetti and a hat for her to celebrate with!! We even made a sign using words that describe our friend Alyssa. We hope that you had a great birthday Alyssa!!!!

Happy birthday to you!!

With the birthday sign!!

Birthday fun with friends!!

Happy Spring!

So sorry this is a day late – and this week is a short week! Remember the kids do not have school on Friday, March 25^th. Here is what my friends will be doing this week while I am gone!

In Literacy we will be talking about our country, the great USA! We will be reading quite a few informational texts that include “Ana Goes to Washington, D. C.”, “The Best of the West”, “See our Country”, and in our crabby books “Pack a Bag”. During guided reading your child will read either “See This” or “Places to See”. We will be learning about the letters y and z and our new words are “this” and “what”. Our vocabulary words are country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We will continue to blend and listen for certain sounds as well as change sounds to make new words!

In math we will be making patterns and looking at shapes closely to see how they change as we move them around. We will also be representing teen numbers with equations, manipulatives and our fingers.

In writing last week we learned about the writing trait "voice" and this week we will be focusing on how to use it in our writing! I just know that my friends are going to love learning about font size, bold letters, dialogue, speech bubbles, and voice through punctuation!  

Also last week I am sure that you heard that some leprechauns were in our classroom! I heard it was a lot of fun and I am bummed that I missed it, but Ms. Bailey filled me in and took lots of pictures so I could see what happened on St. Patrick’s Day. I heard a leprechaun even visited my friends and took a picture with them! The kids are still trying to catch those sneaky little leprechauns though and are being extra quiet while they are working to try and catch them, hopefully this continues while I am gone and if those leprechauns are still around I sure hope they catch one! Here is the video from the pictures taken on St. Patrick’s Day!

                 

4th quarter!!

I seriously cannot believe we are starting the 4th quarter of kindergarten! It is crazy how the year goes by so fast and we are going to continue to learn like crazy until we are ready for 1st grade! I sure hope all of my friends had a fabulous spring break and are ready for more fun in kindergarten!

Ms. Bailey will be starting this week and is super excited to be in kindergarten! Her first day will actually be on Tuesday, and Ms. Bogner will be there on Monday! I know that all my friends will make her feel welcome and will work work extra hard for her!  Also I am not for sure if they will come back or not – but in the past I have had some sneaky leprechauns come into my classroom on St. Patrick’s Day and play tricks on us – but not for sure if they will come or not this year! Ms. Bailey will have to let me know! Make sure your kindergartener wears green on Thursday! Also please send back your shamrocks if you haven't already!

Here's what my friends will be learning about this week!
In literacy we will be discussing what can go from here to there. Our vocabulary words will be transportation, vehicle, journey, fierce, and wide. The stories we will be reading are “When Daddy’s Truck Picks Me Up”, “The King of the Winds”, and “From Here to There.” We will be talking about how we can make predictions when we read, we will also be talking about the character, setting, and plot. The letters we will be learning will be ‘j’ and ‘q’.  Our two new sight words will be ‘here’ and ‘me’. We are busy kids!!!

In math we are going to be working on our night sky display – this is a great tool we use to help us learn more about groups of 10 and number partners and equations. I think that all of my friends will really like our display and we will be using it every day during daily math routines. Of course we will continue to work on story problems and teen numbers too!

During unit studies we will start talking about nutrition and the different food groups! We have a big kit full of fun activities that we will be doing over the next few weeks!

In writing we will continue to write stories about our lives and the things that we like to do. We will review turtle talking and stretching out words we don’t know how to spell and will even learn about the writing trait – voice! We will talk a lot about voice and how we can use it to make our stories even better! My friends will LOVE this writing trait! Before we left for break we talked a lot about research and how we can find out real information from different kinds of sources!

I hope my friends have a great week back at school!

Baby News!

A little update on Mrs. Woita and the baby! All of my friends had been counting down the days until Baby Woita was due and I will admit they were all a little confused when March 1st came and went and there was still no baby. They were all so fun about making their predictions about whether it was going to be a boy and girl and gladly shared with me what they thought I should name the baby. Although I told them all the name had to end with the letter y and sound like an e like the rest of my children but they disagreed and came up with some other really cute names, but anyways I am very happy to report that I am now the proud mom of another baby boy, so most of my friends were right! Yesterday, 3-9-16 I had Marty Alexander Woita - he weighed in at 8lbs 10ounces and was 21 inches long! Of course we all think he is perfect! Henry and Lily are over the moon excited to have a baby brother and Macy I don't think really knows what to think just quite yet! Justin and I are just happy to have another healthy baby! Thank you all for your thoughts and well wishes! I am sure Baby Marty and I will stop by to see my friends soon! Here are a few pictures of Mr. Marty Woita...

 Marty Alexander Woita!

 First look in through the nursery window of Marty - 

he was getting his first bath when they got to the hospital - they were all smiles!

 Excited big brother and big sisters!

First family photo - Macy was definitely not excited anymore, but still a wonderful memory!

Happy Birthday Harper!

We celebrated Harper's birthday today! She will be turning 6 years old on March 6th and we had a great discussion about golden birthdays and every one was super excited for Harper! She always has a smile on her face which we love and we hope she has a wonderful birthday! Here are a few pictures from her day...

                     Birthday girl, Harper, by the note Confetti left for her and her gift from us!

                                                   Singing Happy Birthday to Harper!

                                      Birthday girl and her friends along with her present!

                                                        Birthday girl and birthday Elf!

King Ashton

Ashton was the King of the Jungle this week and he had a great week! Here is a little info about Ashton! His favorite color is blue and he likes basketball and cats. His favorite foods are pizza and ice cream. He loves the book "World Records" and he likes the Goosebumps movie. We were not able to read his entire book because it was huge and the words were so super tiny but my friends loved when I was flipping through it. He also loves rock music! He is a special kid because his mom loves him! When Ashton is at home he likes to play games and help his mom cook! When he grows up he wants to be a police officer! Ashton had a wonderful week! Please check out his video!