Happy Halloween

Halloween is this Wednesday. Kindergarten should come to school in their costumes.  We will parade with the morning and afternoon class and we will celebrate with a party.  Please remember no weapons or any other inappropriate pieces for their costumes.  Masks are ok, however they usually don't wear them after the parade.  

Thank you parents  for all your work planning the parties.  The kids just love their parties.

Report cards will come home on Friday, please remember to sign the envelope and return it to school. 

Also please look closely at the Buzz this week, Kindergarten A.M. will not go to gym on Thursday they will participate in gym class at 8:10 on Tuesday along with Art class.  We will be attending Mass on Thursday for All Saints Day.  K-club will be joining us as well. 

I hope everyone has a safe a happy Halloween!

Science day in kindergarten

The year is off to a great start.  We have had two science days and were able to explore many different things.  First we explored chemical and physical change, and we made some gak. After visiting the pumpkin farm we studied pumpkins.  We weighed them, observed them, cut them open and looked inside.  Those children who were brave enough even touched the gunky insides of the pumpkins.  Oh what fun.  Thanks to our parents who took home the seeds and baked them for us we even got to taste part of the pumpkin.  Surprising enough several of the children who didn't think they would like the pumpkin seeds were asking for seconds and thirds.  So exciting.  I really like when they try something new.  The unknown can be so exciting.  I look forward to our next science day!.

kindergarten Pumpkin farm

the kindergarteners with their pumpkins

fun in the corn pit

Monday we went to the pumpkin farm.  We lucked out the weather was beautiful.  The students really had a great time.  We  went on a hayride and saw pumpkins get launched into the pond.  There was also a corn pit the kids were able to play in.  I wish we had one in school.  Loads of fun.  We went on the big slides and saw the animals in the petting zoo! I think the pig races were the most fun of all. Daniel's pig one his race, YEAH!  but Mrs. Cherney's pig China Doll failed to make it to the finish line first.  Oh well there is always next year!  Thank you parents for joining us on our field trip!  Your children really enjoy when you are there.

Next week

Don't forget next week we have a short week.  We do not have school on Thursday 10/4 or Friday  10/5 or the following Monday 10/8th.  Enjoy your long weekend. We will not have a star of the week due to the short week, but we will have one for the week of 10/8.  Also please make sure you look over the permission slip for the pumpkin farm and return it to school as soon as possible.  Thanks, have a blessed week! 
We have been working on letter recognition and letter sound recognition as well as working on identifying our numbers 1- 25.  We have also been working on place value.  They are getting really good at identifying the ones place and the tens place in numbers. The beginning of the year is always such a busy time with so many things being introduced to them, but they really seem to be enjoying the activities and especially love the smartboard. (as do I)  They have been working hard and I am so proud of their progress that they have made.  Keep supporting them at home!

Apple graphing




Morning graphing according to size





Jessica's cute little apple



We have been busy in kindergarten learning about John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed.  We have read so many great stories about him.  Last week we brought in apples and we graphed them on our floor graph. We learned there were many different ways to graph our apples.  First we graphed them by color, then we graphed them by size and finally we graphed them by whether they had a stem or not.  It was so much fun to see  how many red apples we had in comparison o how many green apples or mixed color apples.  Also we had so many different sizes of apples.  I think our favorite apple in the A.M. Class was Jessica's, it was so tiny.   Over all we had a great time using our floor graph and learning all the different ways to make and read a graph.



The afternoon class graphing whether their apples had a stem or not.



Kindergarten news

Well we are 16 days into kindergarten and they have been working so hard.  We have been busy working on our letters, numbers and popcorn words. They are doing such a great job with their writting! I have seen such great improvement already.  We have also been working on our smart-board, their favorite (mine too)!  We work on our letters and poems using the smart board and we also watched the letter factory by Leap Frog!  If your student struggles with identifying letter sounds it is a great DVD for support!  Also abcya.com is an awesome website for reading and math activities.    

This week we were not able to check out books from the LRC because our check out system was down.  The kids went to the computer lab instead! What a great treat!

Next week is our first science day, we will be exploring physical change and chemical reaction!  It's always fun!  I really appreciate the parent volunteers giving of their time to come and help us with our experiments.  

Next week we are going to be learning about Johnny Appleseed, don't forget to send in an apple, we will be graphing them.  It is so much fun! 

In religion we are talking about showing love to others  and the many ways we can show we care! I have asked the children to try to remember to pray daily to God not only to thank him for all the wonderful gifts he gives us daily, but also when they are feeling sad or angry!  God is always there and is always listening . 

Well I will try to update weekly, please check back for updates and eventually pictures. If you do not want your child's picture to appear on our blog please let me know ! 

Welcome to kindergarten!

Welcome everyone! The year is underway and we are already learning so many things. We have started with patterning and ordering numbers in math. Today we started writing! Those sheets that came home today are our beginning writing sheets. Next week will be our first full week and we have a busy week planned.We will be celebrating three birthdays, we will attend all our specials and we will start our reading program.  Homework will come home at the end of the week so look for it. Remember they get a week to complete it.  
The first days of kindergarten are always hard, there are so many procedures to learn.  Things we take for granted. They did a great job and I am sure they were tired at the end of the day! I look forward to next week. Have a wonderful weekend! See you on Monday!