2011-2012

Welcome Kindergarten

We are looking forward to a wonderful year!

We have so much to learn and many new exciting things to explore.

This year we will be using our New Smartboard in class.

As a matter of fact we have already started using it to identify

our letters and ryhming words.

Come back often to see pictures and view the blog.

Mrs. Cherney and Mrs. Lessentien

Mothers Day Tea and other events

The Mothers Day Tea was wonderful... Thank you mom's for taking time out of your busy schedules to spend time with your child so they could honor you for being such special mom's. They were so excited about having you in class. I also want to say thank you for all your kind words about the Tea. I know May is busy, but it is such a beautiful event. I just love seeing how they interact with their mothers. They talk about you all the time, I know it meant a lot to them to have you there with them.

The VIP program is this week.... Please watch the schedule closely. Remember to send a lunch and drink on the day your child stays all day. Costumes on Thursday and Friday. Also early dismissal on Friday.

Field Days is on Monday, May 23rd. It is going to be such a fun day. (there will be so many tired little children at the end of the day, and a few tired teachers too!) Then finally, Wednesday is Graduation. A note will come home about the arrival time that evening. I just can't believe we are down to the final days. Where has the time gone? I am so excited for them, yet it always makes me sad to see them go on to first grade...... Hmmmm.... I must be doing something wrong... I never get to graduate to the first grade.

I will see you all at Graduation!!

Remember if you haven't turned in your tutoring schedule please get it back to me as soon as possible. Thanks.

Kindergarten zoo trip

Monday we had a great time at the zoo! We really lucked out; the weather was wonderful and the zoo really wasn't that crowded. I think most of the groups were able to find the Naked Mole Rats, and the Giraffe exhibit aswell as the Meerkats and Zebra's. As part of our zoo unit the students picked an animal to write a short report on. They are very excited about it. We are also working on our classroom zoo. I can't wait until it is done. They are so creative I know it is going to be great. Thank you volunteers for joining us on our trip. The students really like having their parents along on our field trips. I hope you had as much fun as they had.

May activities

May is just around the corner.... I can't believe how fast this year has flown by. We have many activities coming up. Please check the special schedule sheet I sent home earlier last week. We will be going to the zoo on Monday. (May 2) Please dress your child appropriately. Rain or shine we will go. (Pray for Shine) We also have our Mothers Day Tea coming up.(May 9th) It is truly a special day for both the mothers and the children. VIP and graduation are how we will round out our month. We have been practicing extra hard for both events. We counted in class today how many days are left in kindergarten and we came up with 19..... It can't be... I have had such a wonderful year with your children and I am really sorry to see it end. When I told them that they have 19 days left of kindergarten then they get a summer break and then they will go to first grade they were just amazed. (some a bit excited and some a bit scared) It has been amazing how they have grown. I told them that we were going to have a visit from our preschoolers tomorrow (in the a.m. class) and I explained that as young as the preschoolers are, that is how young they were when they started kindergarten and look at them now......
One last note.. I uploaded many pictures to the Walgreen's sight. They are pictures I took throughout the year. As I take more will upload them as well.

Kindergarten News

This week we have been learning about clocks and we have started to learn to tell time. The kids took a pre-test on clocks before we started our unit "telling time" It was amazing how much they new already about clocks. They love telling me what time it is. We will be working on "time" until the end of the year.
We also planted our garden last week and they are growing like crazy. Every day they ask me about how big our plants have grown. Keep your fingers crossed they keep growing. We are also learning about the life cycle of plants. In science we took our last assessment about plant growth, the seasons and God's creations. I can't believe we are coming to the end of the year already. They have learned so much and are so excited about everything they learn. I am really having as much fun this year as they are.
Have a blessed Easter everyone.

Oviparous and spring time activities

Over the last few days we have been studying oviparous animals. We have read some funny stories and learned some interesting facts. We have also been talking about spring, and all the wonderful things we see as the weather changes. We wrote a book about spring and the things we see, some the the books have come home the others will come home as they finish them. We also made an oviparous page for our oviparous book. I am so impressed with how they illustrated their pages for their books. They are learning to add more and more details to their pictures and they are turning out fabulously. I love them!!!! The students are really excited about their work and I wanted to share some of them with you.

Have a wonderful day!

What's happening in Kindergarten ?

This week in kindergarten we started our unit on Oviparous animals. Ask them what Oviparous means. They are so smart. We read "Horton Hatches an Egg" and completed a story map. We have been learning about who the characters are in a story, the setting, aswell as what happened at the beginning, middle, and ending of the story. Their recall is excellent. They are really picking up on important details in the stories we are reading. You can do this at home after you finish reading a story. Their comprehension will improve greatly and will make reading more enjoyable. We just had our 131th day of school and when we looked at our tooth chart we discovered that between both kindergarten classes we have lost 54 teeth to date. Wow that is alot of teeth. I think I pulled about 1/3 of them in class. I can't wait to see how many more they lose. They tell me everyday how many loose teeth they have. I hope some of them fall out before the end of the year. There are many activities coming up, please look for information to come home in your childs folder soon.