Polar Express Day

We have been having lots of FUN on the Polar Express today!

We started our day listening to The Polar Express book!


Then it was time to BOARD the TRAIN for the North Pole! We had our tickets and were EXCITED to GOOOOO....

 Found our seats and showed our Tickets...Got them punched...settled in and OFF we went!

After lunch...we enjoyed our very own Hot Chocolate...while aboard the Polar Express!

 The FIRST GIFT of Christmas!

We got AN EMERGENCY call from Mrs. Hamilton...WE had a visitor from the NORTH POLE and he had a package for US....I ran, ran as fast as I could...but HE was gone before I got there!!! But I did get the package and BRRRRR was it cold...Inside we found bells!  Everyone could hear them ringing!!  

WE BELIEVE!!!

We sequenced our Story!

Obviously our chain is MUCH shorter today!!!

Busy Busy

We have been busy busy in 313.  The holidays can be a stressful time for littles at school. Our schedule is way off...we are super excited for the upcoming holiday season and multiply that by at least 20 and things can get crazy!

BUT...with that being said the group is doing an overall fantastic job...Their teacher...well...she has slacked on some of her duties like blogging and picture taking.

Our room is looking festive...
We have countdown to Christmas Chains and talk about 1 less as we take a chain link off daily!

Elfie brought colored lights to light up our room...

We are comparing different versions of The Gingerbread Man...
So we made a gingerbread kid glyph.  Glitter: Boys-Orange Girls-Pink
Eyes: Stars if your 5, Circles if your 6, Triangles if your 7, Buttons: we put a button on for every PERSON living in our house, Stripes: 1 stripe if you like to eat gingerbread, 2 if you don't.  Mouth: a smile if your on the NICE list!
WE are able to look at our festive decorations and tell a lot about our class!

Tomorrow is POLAR EXPRESS Day...don't forget it is P.J. Day...Some have heard the story/seen the movie, some have not. We will be connecting jammie day to the story as well as comparing the book to the movie.

Friday...is party day! 1:45

My New Year's Resolution is to get back on track with things I've been slacking on this year!
On February 17th Miss C will be in our room for 6 weeks!!! We are so looking forward to showing her what it's like to be in Kindergarten!

Have a VERY Merry Christmas and a SAFE New Year!  See you all in 2014!!!

Day 65

So today we went to the library!!! There were only a few friends that forgot their books! Bring them in and we can get those back and maybe check out a new one before the holidays! If you are going to be leaving before the holidays please make sure your child returns his/her library book so that it doesn't get lost in the holiday shuffle!

HOMEWORK:
I will be sending book pages home tomorrow.  Everyone will get 10 pages and a piece of construction paper...remember that this book is being "published" meaning we are writing it for others to read...NEATNESS, staying on topic, and being able to read it...all COUNT!

In reading and writing we have talked about main idea and staying on topic.  In writing we are really stressing spaces between our words so that others can read our writing.  And in math we are working with and within 1-10! This project is going to HIGHLIGHT all that we are learning! I'm so excited!!!

Reading:

We have started to do a short poetry study.  At this time we are listening and enjoying poetry. As we listen we are making a "working" anchor chart...meaning we can change it as our thoughts and ideas change.  Today we said, "Poems...ALWAYS have a main idea or topic and are written by Poets.  Poems...SOMETIMES rhyme, have illustrations, make a shape, are long or short.  

Writing:

Conventions: Top to Bottom, Left to Right and SPACES between words.

Math:

Comparing numbers and sets to 10.  Today we really focused on equal sets and how we know two sets are equal!

Problem Solving:

There were 4 gingerbread men. How many legs were there all together?  WOW...some repeated addition...the ground floor of multiplication!

Science:

Characteristics of the seasons.  

We also celebrated a birthday today!!!

Buckaroo:

Our Buckaroo had a special lunch with a special MOMMY today!

Such sweet girls!!

Have a great evening!

Day 64

Can you believe we just got back from vacation and the count down has begun for the next one!  14 days until Winter Break! Just c.r.a.z.y!  And soon after our return the 2nd 9 weeks will be OVER! That means HALF yes HALF the year will be gone. I just don't understand how that happens so quickly!

Well...this is going to be short...just got out of a meeting and GUESS what? This BUCKAROO is EXHAUSTED...(somehow I missed my nap today)

Buckaroo:



New Things Happening...
It's that time of YEAR...Elfie has made his appearance! He will be watching us! And if I know him at all he will be playing some tricks and leaving us some treats!!!

You're a MEAN one...Mr. Grinch...But we are trying to teach him how to be nice and grow his heart!  As I see my kind littles doing something sweet or kind for someone else I will add a heart to his!  WE will see how big we can GROW it!!! As you can see...we started today!

I will try to get a smilebox done with our Thanksgiving feast photos sometime this week! Let's see how that goes!

Don't forget HOMEWORK:

Have a wonderful evening!!!

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

Just in case someone wants to get a head start!! 

This homework will integrate what we are studying in Math, Reading and Writing! 

Have fun!!

Happy Holidays

HAPPY HOLIDAYS...

GIFTS ARE DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 2!

Angel # 661---1385
Age: 10 Gender: Male
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 12 to 14 C-child Shirt: 10 to 12 C-child
Shoe: 7 Coat: XL C-child
Underwear: Med
Need: Shoes, coat, clothing
Wish: Ipod shuffle, Bike, Game


Angel # 159---344
Age: 6 Gender: Female
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 8 C-child Shirt: 8 C-child
Shoe: 13 Coat: M C-child
Underwear: 8
Need: cowboy boots, dresses, skirts , shoes
Wish: jewelry making kit, , Leapad Explorer


Please send unwrapped gifts in a bag with the ANGEL NUMBER on the bag.
Thank you for making the difference in the life of
A child, during the holiday season.

My little READERS...I LOVE watching and listening to them!!



Buck A ROO Show and Tell
We have a champion!!!



 This SPRING...

 We had a visitor today! Miss C!!! (I didn't know she was coming today and wasn't prepared to get a picture of her) She will be our STUDENT TEACHER beginning in February!  The kids are going to LOVE her!

Please know how THANKFUL I am for each and every one of my LITTLES and all of you their families!  Have a wonderful Holiday Week!

Love, Ms. Guy

Coming SOON...

Who is our BUCK A ROO?

It's that WONDERFUL time of year!! The following are Kindergarten's adopted angels! ANY donations are welcome!!! Let's make it a SPECIAL holiday for these two children!
Our Student council representative (Emily) made our poster to help us remember to help those less fortunate!

Angel # 661---1385
Age: 10 Gender: Male
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 12 to 14 C-child Shirt: 10 to 12 C-child
Shoe: 7 Coat: XL C-child
Underwear: Med
Need: Shoes, coat, clothing
Wish: Ipod shuffle, Bike, Game


Angel # 159---344
Age: 6 Gender: Female
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 8 C-child Shirt: 8 C-child
Shoe: 13 Coat: M C-child
Underwear: 8
Need: cowboy boots, dresses, skirts , shoes
Wish: jewelry making kit, , Leapad Explorer


Please send unwrapped gifts in a bag with the ANGEL NUMBER on the bag.
Thank you for making the difference in the life of
A child, during the holiday season.

Buck A Roo

Today Mom came in and had a great lunch with our Buck A Roo!!! But before I could take the picture...Jakson wanted to make sure I was REALLY 100 years old! Yes...(at least that's what it feels like many days...) and this year I'll be 101!!! My littles keep me YOUNG!

Yesterday Jakson read his book to the class!



We watch a video click here about The Pilgrims and their voyage to a new land.  We found out that they sailed here on the Mayflower and it was NOT an easy trip! After discussing the trip we made our own Mayflower!  Some littles even added the pilgrim that fell overboard but was rescued! (I love these babes)

Our problem solving went a little like this today! A pilgrim went fishing.  ("I knew it) He caught 9 fish. Some were spotted and some were striped. How many were spotted and how many were striped? It is amazing to me...that all I needed to do was read the problem and these little buck a roos got RIGHT to it!!! Just a little decomposing of numbers all in a kindergarten day! YES...you read it right!!! DECOMPOSING...that is the vocabulary we use to show we are breaking a number apart!!!
This is ONE TABLES work!

And this is with LITTLE help at all from this teacher!  I JUST LOVE IT!!! We had so many GREAT answers! One little one whipped through the pictoral part of the solving and said, "Can I just go ahead and write my number sentence?" WOWZERS....

With that...you all have a wonderful evening!

Some things I forgot!

I'm very upset...(with myself) we were in the process of our funny birds so I didn't get to take a picture! BUT we had two GREAT moms here yesterday morning helping us get ready for our feast! Thank you Mrs. Peregrine and Mrs. Taylor!!! We couldn't do everything without parents like you!

It's that WONDERFUL time of year!! The following are Kindergarten's adopted angels! ANY donations are welcome!!! Let's make it a SPECIAL holiday for these two children!

Angel # 661---1385
Age: 10 Gender: Male
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 12 to 14 C-child Shirt: 10 to 12 C-child
Shoe: 7 Coat: XL C-child
Underwear: Med
Need: Shoes, coat, clothing
Wish: Ipod shuffle, Bike, Game


Angel # 159---344
Age: 6 Gender: Female
Sponsor: Robertson
Pants: 8 C-child Shirt: 8 C-child
Shoe: 13 Coat: M C-child
Underwear: 8
Need: cowboy boots, dresses, skirts , shoes
Wish: jewelry making kit, , Leapad Explorer


Please send unwrapped gifts in a bag with the ANGEL NUMBER on the bag.
Thank you for making the difference in the life of
A child, during the holiday season.

Buck A Roo:

Jakson likes...football, baseball and weight training along with Pizza!

Monday, Monday!

On Friday we had our first Celebration of Learning!

Mrs. Grayard (our computer teacher) led us in a fun song Tony Chesnut!!! Lots and lots of laughs!

Our friends were recognized as Hippest in the HOUSE for exemplifying Responsibility and Courage/Integrity!

Color poems and words...we have finished all the colors for this year!
Poetry:

And to go along with our turkey poem we made some FUNNY birds!!!

I love how each one has it's own personality!!! So much fun.  This was a lesson in listening and following directions!  I am so impressed with my LITTLES!!!

This week we are looking at NOW and THEN...
Today we talked Past and Present! And how things compare.  We did a sort...

Can you guess which one is present and which is past? The littles did a GREAT job!

Math:
We started talking about subtraction and using a take away mat to show what happens to a number when we subtract.  We discovered it gets smaller.
At our tub time...these kiddos are doing a great job with ONE more and TWO more.  They roll the die then they have to figure out what is one or two more than the number on the die!!!

I love how they encourage and help one another to figure out the answer!!

Science:
Today we started talking about the seasons...I put on my winter coat and bundled up and started to read a book...YES, they thought I was crazy..."She's cold!, She's going to get HOT in here with that one..." and sure enough I did get hot. I asked them if I should change into my tank top, shorts and flip flops and they giggled...but decided that wasn't the best outfit for today either!  (This is a DIFFICULT topic living here in TEXAS!)  We decided that pants and t-shirts are best for this weather and be sure to have a light jacket...just in case!  I told them I was going to show them 4 pictures. Then I was going to give them little pictures to sort...But that's all I told them.

After all was sorted we talked about the seasons and what they were called and how HOT or COLD it was during that season.  Not many knew SPRING...we will need to keep working on that one! I drew the "thermometers" and we talked about what would come next based on what they saw...(just threw in a little patterning...) Once we figured out the pattern some one said, "IT'S A CYCLE!" Wow!!! just like the days of the week and the pumpkin...I LOVE their connections!

Have a wonderful evening!