Week in kindergarten!

We had our very first snow day this week!  I enjoyed it and I know the students did. We talked about what everyone did while they were out and most everyone said sleep, play video games, and watch tv. Sounds like they needed a break! This week we are finishing up addition sentences. We will test over out skill tomorrow, Friday December 13. We are also practicing everyday on counting to 100. My goal is that every student counts to 100 before first grade. Please work with your child on this so that we can make our goal!

In reading we are focusing on text features, characters, settings, and retelling the events of a story.

Next week is a four day week with a half day on Friday. Our Christmas party is Friday, December 20 at 8:30. We will have a Christmas gift swap. Please don't forget your gift so you can swap. Maximum limit of $3.00. School will be dismissed at 10:40.

I enjoy teaching your children every day. Please ask your child what they have learned today.

Here are pictures of how we count to 100  every morning.

Happy Thanksgiving

This was a short week of learning, but we were very busy during those two days at school. I read two thanksgiving stories to the students and we had a group discussion over the stories and applied our life stories with the reading. We gathered around in a big circle and discussed what each person was going to have on Thanksgiving Day and who they were celebrating the day with. The student responses were so sweet and funny at times. To sum it up, I was invited to all dinners and so was the rest of the class. But not to worry with running out of food, because several students mentioned that they were going to have a thousand turkeys. Haha. Plenty for everyone. We also did writing pieces of who they were thankful for and drawings of what their Thanksgiving dinner would look like. I hope you enjoy reading them because they tried very hard to do a good job.

I enjoy getting to teach to these children everyday. Some days can be challenging, but I would not change it for anything. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Fall Leaf Report

This week the students have been out searching for leaves at their house and bringing it in to share. When they bring them in, they present them to the class. They describe the leaf that they chose and tell why they chose that particular leaf. They seemed to really enjoy this project. Here are some pictures I took of them sharing their leaves.

Brayden sharing his leaf

Dylan Evans

Makayla

Leela

Ian

Zachary

Dillon C.

Scotty

Kady

A.J.

Trevor C.

C.J.

Our class picture with all their leaves.

Today we had a special 5th grade student come read a few books to the class. Ellie West asked if she could come and read to them today. The studnets loved listening to her read.

The week of November 4, 2013

We have been working really hard this week in class learning and implementing our new skills.  

In reading we practiced visualizing what we were reading with the story Move! The students would listen to me read and I would pause for them to visualize what it would look like and them we discussed it.

Once a week we get 5 iPads to use in the classroom. This week the students got to use them in reading groups and during math.

In math this week we finished up our math lesson over more, fewer, and equal. We implemented the skills with hands on activities in small math stations with dice and manipulative. The students did pretty good with the skill.  Here are some photos of our week at school.

This is the students visualizing what they heard from the story Move.

Working with words that start with C

Our letter for the week is C. We are doing several activities with the letter. Today we searched through our library books for words that started with c and wrote the words down on paper. 

Scotty and Michelle working to find words that begin with c.

Leela, Ian, and C.J

Trevor C., Kaiden Gibbs, Kaiden Hall, and Makayla

Bottom View Farms Field Trip

October 30, 2013 the kindergarten classes took all of the students to Bottom View Farms here in Portland. It was such a great day to spend at the farm riding on the hay rides, picking pumpkins, eating homemade ice cream, and playing at the farm. The students loved it, but were extremely exhausted by the end of the day. On the bus trip to the farms, they were loud and so excited, but that atmosphere changed on the ride back to the school. There were barely any students talking because they were so tired. It turned out to be a great first field trip for most of my students.

                                                                    Scotty & Mrs. Hardin

                          
                                                  A.J., Dylan, Kaiden G., and Jake enjoying the train ride.

Oh no, my class is all locked up!

Fire Station Day!

Here are some pictures from when we went to visit the volunteer fire station next to the school. We enjoyed our walk to the station and the information that the fireman provided for the students. They even got to climb in the fire trucks and try on their heavy helmets. We went on September 23, 2013