Everyday is Earth Day!

We loved celebrating Earth Day and doing our many Lorax activities! I truly do LOVE the book and movie "The Lorax" because it has such a great message! I talked to all my friends about how every day should be treated as earth day and it is our job to help keep the earth clean and safe! Here is a video featuring our lorax and earth day activities...
            

End of April!!!

It is crazy to think this is the last week of April! My heart is starting to beat fast thinking of this school year being over and all the learning and fun projects we still need to do!! I came back to school last Wednesday and with all of the fun Earth Day and Lorax activities it was kind of a whirlwind! I am hoping that this week I can get back in to a good routine both at school and at home! The kids were all so nice when I got back and asked about Marty. Below is a video of pictures of Mr. Marty!

In Literacy we will be starting our final Unit – yep that’s right Unit 10! My friends will be super pumped to see our last crabby book! We will be talking about what can happen when we work together! We will be reading “What’s the Big Idea, Molly?”,  "The Elves and the Shoemakers", "The Variety Show", and in our crabby books "A Good Time For Luke". During guided reading your child will either read Animal Band or We Want Honey. We will be sequencing parts of a story and making, confirming and revising our predictions. Our vocabulary words are decide, marvel, opinion, ragged, and grateful. We will be focusing on the long u vowel sound and the words good and who and looking for sentence clues and questioning words. We will be practicing writing our kindergarten words, and retelling the details from the stories we are reading!

Ms. Bailey did a great job of teaching all of the Unit 5 skills and when I got back we took our test so that means that this week we will be starting unit 6 in math - where we will start learning more about money, time, and measurement!

This week we will wrap up our plant unit and hopefully get everything finished! We have loved learning about plants and how to take care of them!!! Our Lorax projects and movie night turned out great and hopefully I will get a video up sometime this week featuring pictures of our fun week last week! We will be planting a vegetable seed this week too if we are lucky!

In writing we will be working hard on our stories. We are working hard on adding details to our words and pictures to match our stories and also using our best handwriting and taking our time. In a few weeks we will be taking our writing test to show the first grade teachers how awesome of writers we are!

This Tuesday the 26th is a PLC day and our field trip to Chet Ager Nature Center where we will be exploring nature and the changing seasons! We also get to wear our cool shirts we made, ride the bus and eat lunch either in our classroom or outside when we get back to school! I honestly don’t know a better way to start our week! It is sure to be a great time and I can't wait to explore nature with my friends!

Marty's video...

Queen Harper

Harper was the Queen of the Jungle last week and she had a fabulous week as Queen. Here is some information about Harper... Her favorite color is red and she likes the book "Where the Wild Things Are". She also loves the movie "The Lorax" and had a super fun time doing all of our Lorax projects! She also likes soccer and loves to eat cake! Her favorite animal is a pug and she also likes the song "Shut Up and Dance With Me". Harper is a special girl because her family loves her a lot and when she is at home she likes to play with her neighbors. When Harper grows up she wants to be a race car driver and I bet she will be a great driver that always wears her seat belt!  Please check out Harper's video as Queen of the Jungle...
            

King Chance

This past week Chance was the King of the Jungle and he had a great week. Here is a little information about Chance... His favorite color is orange and he likes soccer. He likes the movie "Cars" and he brought in his favorite book "Planes" for us to read together. He also really likes root beer floats. His favorite animal is Jack Black - the cat! He also likes the song "American Kids" by Kenny Chesney. He is a special kid because his family loves him and something he likes to do at home is ride his bike and scooter! When Chance grows up he wants to be a zookeeper and we all think that would be a fun job taking care of animals. Please check out Chance's video...
               

King Trevin

Trevin was our king of the jungle last week and we LOVED learning all about him!! His favorite color is red and his favorite book is “I Wanna New Room.” He loves the movie “Good Burger” and he LOVES playing hockey!!!  His favorite food is chicken and his favorite animal is a bear. He loves dancing and singing to Uptown Funk!! He is special because he is sweet and caring. He LOVES riding his dirt bike…lucky boy!!! We think you are pretty special Trevin!!!

                         
              

Happy Birthday Haylee!!

Last week we celebrated Haylee's birthday and we had SO much fun!!!! Our elf came to visit and we even got to sing to her!!

Birthday sign!!!

Happy birthday to YOU!!

You are awesome Haylee!!

Queen Tatum

Tatum was our queen last week and we had SO much fun learning all about her!! She brought her favorite toy and taught us some of her favorite things!! Her favorite color is red and her favorite movie is "Adventures of Pooh." She loves foxes and eating cheez it crackers!! Yummy!!!!! She is a special kid because she has a GREAT imagination. When she grows up she wants to be a teacher (I think that is a great job to have!) Thanks for teaching us all about YOU Tatum!!!

Please enjoy our video.

First full week of April!

What a busy April we have ahead of us!!!

 As I am sure you all know our school is doing a Coins For Cans drive for the LPS Backpack Walk and your child is asked to bring in loose change for this great cause, but what you might not know is that there are 8 teachers that have agreed to be pied in the face at an all school assembly at the end of April if we as a school raise $1000. And yes I am one of those teachers :) Also the LPS backpack walk is on Saturday, April 16th and my family and I will be there and if you aren't busy I hope you will consider coming down to check it out! It starts at 10:00 and is at Lincoln East High School. I can’t wait to hear how much money my class brings in for this great cause!

Also the Art Fair is coming on Thursday, April 14^th and hopefully you can all come to Meadow Lane and check out the awesome art work and fun activities that they have planned for that evening!

Friday, April 22^nd is the Lorax Movie Night and Earth day! I LOVE Earth Day and the Lorax!!!! I hope you can all come back to school and watch one of my favorite movies with me! More information will be coming home about this event!

Tuesday, April 26^th we will be going on our Field Trip to Chet Ager Nature Center and again more information will be coming home about this event! But it is sure to be a super fun day! But wanted to let you know!

Also last Thursday hopefully you heard that Marty and I stopped by to see how all of my friends are doing at Meadow Lane. They were all so nice and excited to see and meet Marty! I was amazed at how much they have learned in the few weeks I have been gone! Ms. Bailey is doing an awesome job and I know that that my friends are in great hands! The plan is for me to return to school on Wednesday, April 20^th and again hopefully the transition will be smooth so we can have a great end to our school year!

Here’s a little information about this week at school…

In writing we will keep working on adding voice to our stories!! My friends are loving this writing trait!! We will also be reviewing what good writers do and will also be talking about how we can add our thoughts and feelings into our stories!

In math we will be making a teen number book and focusing on the ten in each teen number. We will be continuing to work on addition and subtraction and using different strategies to solve different equations as well as telling story problems! We will also be making a drawing of partners of ten for a classroom display!

We are continuing to learn more about nutrition, the five food groups, my plate, and doing many activities that will help us live a healthy life!

In literacy we will be learning two new words - help and too! I am sure we will he talking a lot about to, two, and too this week!!! We will also be starting to learn about long vowels and focusing on the long a! Our essential question is "how can you help out at home?" so you might have some extra great helpers this week-although hopefully it will last for more than just one week!!
Our vocabulary worlds are chores, contribute, member, organize, and accomplish. We will also be discussing prefixes and suffixes. We will be reading "Peter's Chair", "Helping Out at Home", and "The Clean Up". During guided reading your child will read either "Let Me Help You" or "How can Jane Help" and in our new crabby books they will read "Jake and Dale Help". It is going to be another fun week in kindergarten!

We are ALL special!!!

Today, April 2nd, we celebrate autism awareness. Yesterday at school we talked a lot about how we are all different, but we are all the same. No matter who you are, you ARE special. We each colored a puzzle piece for our school bulletin board. We also each drew a picture on a puzzle piece to celebrate why EACH of us is special. We made a ribbon in our hallway to remind us of our special traits. Please enjoy our video and CELEBRATE YOU today!!!

Happy Birthday Aubrey!!!

We celebrated Aubrey's birthday on Thursday and had a great time!! Confetti left Aubrey her hat AND confetti!! We also made a sign describing Aubrey and we came up with some GREAT words!!! Aubrey had her mom visit for lunch....LUCKY girl!! She also got flowers and a balloon from her parents after school. We hope you had an awesome day!!

SO fun!!!

Happy birthday to YOU!!!

Birthday sign!!

Silly Class!!