End of the Year Celebration

Today is the last day of Kindergarten and we had to celebrate because we have been working soo very hard all year long. Here are a few videos we watched during our celebration..

First and Last Day of kindergarten...

Our tunnel walk...


Our first semester video...


Our second semester video...



We are so happy that we learned so much and had so much fun in Kindergarten...




At the end of the day we came up with a list of words that came to our minds when we thought of our year together and this is what we made....

Happy Birthday Devin!

Today we celebrated Devin's 6th birthday and Confetti came to help us celebrate one last time this school year! His actual birthday was yesterday but we were all still very excited! Devin had a wonderful day and was excited we were able to celebrate with him before the end of kindergarten! We had a easy time coming up with adjectives to describe our friend Devin. Here are a few pictures of his day at school...

 Birthday boy, Devin, at his desk!

 Devin and the note Confetti left for him!

 Singing Happy Birthday to Devin!

 Devin and his friends!

Confetti and Devin and the present we made him!

PLC - Professional Learning Community

All year long students of Lincoln Public Schools get out of school early so teachers can participate in PLC meetings. At those meetings teachers meet to talk about how we can help students grow as a learner. This year in kindergarten we focused our attention on writing. We took pre-tests and post-tests and collected data to see what we needed to focus on! Please check out this video to see what our kindergarteners have been learning about in writing!       
            

So much to do and soo little time!

This week we will be doing some assessments and reviewing everything we have learned in Literacy!  We will be talking about how we can protect our earth and make good choices. We will be reading "Panda Kindergarten", "Protect the Environment" and "Save Big Blue" and will learn more about baby animals. In guided reading we will either read "Help Clean Up" or "Let's Save Earth" and in our crabby books "Who Can Help?" Our vocabulary words which I know we will love are recycle, environment, protect, wisely, and encourage.  It will be a great review week! 
In Math we will hopefully be ready to take another test by the end of the week. We have been learning about money and time and this week we will be learning about measurement. We will measure with different manipulatives and will be comparing items in a group.  I am confident we will do wonderful on this test!
In writing we will also be taking a test - and it will take us two days to complete it. I have been talking to my friends about all of the things good writers do - we review the six writing traits daily and have been trying our best during writers workshop. We took a practice test already and will do one more practice and then we will take our real test to show Mrs. Schulzkump and the first grade teachers. I just know that they will be amazed at the great writers I have in my class this year!
In Unit Studies we talked about the Earth and the continent, country, state, and city that we live in! It was a ton of fun and we even made our own little maps! This week we will be talking all about the wonderful state of Nebraska that we live in and making a book about our state symbols!
We will also be trying to finish up some of our yearlong projects we have been working on.  We will also be starting to practice for our kindergarten celebration/program - so please be on the lookout for your childs lines -that I would love for you to practice as well as the rsvp so I know how many people are coming!

Last week we have had a volunteer come into our classroom and do Junior Achievement with us! Junior Achievement is a program that hopes to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. It is a volunteer delivered program for kindergarteners through 12th graders and we loved every bit of it! Every day Ms. Erica came and did an activity with us. Ms. Erica has been coming to my classroom for years and is always willing to come back to the craziness and I really appreciate her! I am sure you have seen the goodies that Ms. Erica gave us as well - we each got a certificate, a savings bank, and a magnet.  We talked a lot about how we can save money and why it is important to save and spend wisely! My friends loved having the Erica, our JA volunteer, in our room! Here is a video of some of the fun we had when she was here with us in Woita's World!
                  

Happy Mother's Day!

We hope all of our mom's have a wonderful day! This week at school we talked about how we are all so lucky to have people in our lives that love us, take care of us, and keep us safe and we talked a lot about our moms! I know that I am personally so thankful to my mother for being the most amazing person I have ever known. 

Moms - please know how much you are loved today and everyday! I hope all the moms like the LOVE boards we made for them throughout the year and I hope you can hang it up somewhere and display pictures or projects that your children have made! I also hope that you all get to relax and enjoy spending time together with your family today. 
 Please check out this special video we made especially for our moms!         

                 

MAY!!!!

We are in serious "let's get things done mode" from now until the end of the school year! I can't believe it is May already and there are only 14 school days left with my friends and then they will be in first grade!! Oh boy oh boy- do we have a lot to do!!!!

This week we will be talking about our end of the year program that will be held on the last day of school- Thursday, May 19th at 1:00 in our room.  I am excited because this week we will be able to see the band and strings practice concert and this next week we will get to watch the chorus practice concert! I hope my friends get more excited about our program after seeing these performances!!! I promise I will send out exact details in a note home!

Also this week we will be going to the park for lunch as long as the weather cooperates! A note will be sent home with exact times on Wednesday or Thursday- although I am thinking we will be down at the park around 11:50 if you would like to meet us there!

This week we will also be having a guest teacher, Ms. Erica, she is a volunteer for the Junior Achievement program and she will be coming in every morning to teach us a lesson. She has volunteered many years in my classroom and she is wonderful! I know my friends will love her!

In literacy we will be starting week 2 of unit 10 and will be discussing how things are alike and how they are different! Our last two words we will learn are "come" and "does" and we will be focusing on the long e vowel sound. Our vocabulary words are sort, familiar, perfect, endless, and experiment. We will be reading "All Kinds Of Families", "The Perfect Color", "Good For You", and "We Come on Time". We will be focusing a lot on comprehension and remembering key details from the story and asking and answering questions as we read to get ready for all of our 4th quarter assessments!! During guided reading your child will either read "My Box" or "Let's Make a Band".

In math we will continue to learn more about coins and their value as well as start talking about telling time to the hour! There are quite a few workbook pages that we are not getting to because they are not on the test so please know I will be sending home some papers for you to do in the summer that will help your child get ready for first grade!

We finished up our plant unit and this week we will start our social studies unit on Nebraska and where we live!!! We will talk about cities, states, countries, and continents! We will also learn a lot about the state that we live in and some of our very own state symbols which I know my friends will love learning about!!! It is sure to be another super great, busy week in kindergarten!!!

Here is a video of our super fun field trip to Chet Ager we went on last week...