Happy Birthday Jaxson!

Yesterday was Jaxson's 6th birthday and oh boy were we all excited to see Confetti, the birthday elf! He left confetti on Jaxson's desk and even wrote him a note on the board!  We all had a great time using adjectives to describe Jaxson to make his present! Jaxson had a great day and is super excited to now be 6 years old! Here are a few pictures of Jaxson's day at school!

Jaxson's friends singing him Happy Birthday!

Jaxson with his friends and his gift from all of us!

Jaxson and Confetti!

Jaxson and the note Confetti left for him! 

(we all agreed we need to help Confetti learn how to write letters the right way!)

Queen Leina

Leina was our Queen of the Jungle last week and she had a wonderful week! Her dad was able to come in and read one of her favorite books Pigsty which was super funny, she also likes the book Shapes. We all loved the book Leina's dad read to us! But back to Queen Leina - she likes the color blue and volleyball and lions. Her favorite food is Lucky Charms and she also likes the movie Olivia and her favorite song is Twinkle Twinkle. Leina is a special girl because she is just the way God made her! When she is at home she likes to play with dolls and when she grows up she wants to be a teacher! I know she will make a great teacher! Here is a video of her week as Queen!

                     

Crazy Busy 2 Days!!

This week will be a quick one- we will be going turkey crazy and talking a lot about the things we are thankful for! Tuesday is a PLC day so it will be a super fast day! If we survive these two days and all the things on the to do list we will all deserve a break!  Although I am sure hoping for a little bit of free time because I have quite a few funny turkey books I know my friends would love!

Thank you Veterans!

On Wednesday, Nov. 11th we celebrated a very important day in our country, Veterans Day! I talked with my friends about how much the women and men have sacrificed for our country to keep us safe and free. We are so thankful for all of the veterans and for all the men and women who are still serving our country! We are truly so lucky to live in America! Words cannot express our gratitude for all that they have done for us. Every passing day I admire and appreciate our veterans even more.

This year the kindergarten teachers at Meadow Lane challenged our students to bring in candy that they got from Halloween to share with the Veterans in our community. I was amazed at how much candy my friends brought in. We had a blast bagging up the candy to share with others. We also made turkey cards that were made with our hands and feet with the words "from our hands down to our feet we say thanks for keeping us free!" and I will be taking them along with our bags of candy to the veterans hospital this weekend to share with them. A few of my friends even took some home to give to the veterans that they know! Please check out this short video we made in honor of Veterans Day.

            

New units in November!

It is the middle of November and we are moving right along. We are starting a new unit in Literacy and in Math! My friends did great on their Unit 2 math test and are excited to keep learning more about numbers. Unit 3 will review and build upon our knowledge of numbers 1-10. We will be focusing on teen numbers and seeing that there is one group of ten in every teen number. This week we will be introduced the to “ten bug” who LOVES the number 10. We will continue to work with 5-groups and if we are lucky we will maybe have one more visit from the 5-finder this week! We will also be learning about number partners and how a number is a whole that can be easily separated into partners! We will also learn about different strategies that we can use to solve story problems! Oh how I LOVE math – it truly is so fun to see my friends learning more about numbers! Remember math night is Thursday, December 3rd and I hope you all can come!

In Literacy we will be starting Unit 4 “Around the Neighborhood”. This week our essential question is “What do people use to do their jobs?” and I can’t wait to hear the conversations we will have! Our vocabulary words are equipment, uniform, expect, remained, and utensils. We will be reading “Whose Shoes?” and “Workers and Their Tools”, which are both informational texts that give us real information and many times include photographs.  We will also be reading “Little Juan and the Cooking Pot” and in our crabby book we will read “Tom on Top”.  During guided reading your child will either be reading “ You Cook” or “On the Job”. We will be focusing on the letter “o” and learning the word “you” this week as well. As always we will blending sounds together to make words and also taking a word and sounding it out slowly - which ties in so nicely with what we have been working on in writing. We will also focus a lot on ending punctuation marks and how our voices sound when we read them.  We will also be learning that an adjective is a describing word that tells us more about something! For example when we are writing about going down the slide at the park we could say we that we go down the big, red, curvy slide at the park!

We will be working on our sink and float books this week! I now we will love experimenting more this week because last week we each got to pick one item to experiment with and we had soo much fun! Be prepared to do some experimenting at home as well! We will be learning words like hypothesis, displacement, and density – geez we will sure be learning lot in kindergarten this week!!

Also if you ordered cookie dough for the school fundraiser- please make sure to come pick it up this Wednesday from 4-6!!

Queen Aubrey

This week Aubrey was the Queen of the Jungle and she loved every minute of it! She was our first Queen and we loved learning more about her! Aubrey loves the color pink and the movie Frozen! She also likes gymnastics and enchiladas! Her favorite animal is a horse and her favorite song is Hillsong-Alive! Her favorite book is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and her mom even cam in and read it to us and we all loved listening to her read! She is a special girl because Jesus loves her and when she is at home she likes to play school and wants to be a teacher when she grows up - which of course makes Ms. Shipley and Mrs. Woita very happy to hear! We know Aubrey will be a great teacher someday! Here is a video of her week as Queen!

                 

Parent Readers this Week!

This week we were lucky enough to have two parent readers come and read to us. Aubrey's mom came in on Thursday to read and have lunch with the Queen of the Jungle, Aubrey, and Harper's mom was signed up to read today - so we were extra lucky this week! Here are a few pictures of our special guest parent readers!

 Harper and her mom!

 Harper's mom getting ready to read and asking us questions about Charlie Brown!

 Harper does love listening to her mom read!

 Harper's mom read "You've got Talent, Charlie Brown".

 Harper's mom even stayed for lunch!

 Aubrey was so excited her mom came to read!

 Everyone loved this book!

 Aubrey loves this book AND her mom!

 Aubrey's mom read her favorite book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (it was a super small book).

Aubrey's mom with our whole class!