V is for...

Last week we learned about the letter V. Our week started out with our Valentine's Dance!

This was our second Tea Party for the year. We collected pennies at the door for our charity, Pennies for Peace. We brought one container back to our class and counted almost $22.00! Way to go guys! I can't wait to hear how much was in the other container! I told the children that we could by 2200 pencils with that and they said "WOW, that is enough for a whole school!" In fact, this enough to pay a teacher's salary for 2 weeks or to buy one child's supplies for a whole year! It is amazing how we can do so much with what, to us, is so little!

We had a ball at the dance!

There was dancing..

Food...

And even a dress-up photo booth!

And even a fun dress-up photo booth! Our second tea party signifies us all becoming friends. I could tell that we all are! Children from different classes were playing and dancing together!

Many thanks to all of the parents who put all of this together. It was a WONDERFUL time for everyone!

Even the teachers...

Our Week

This past week we spent some time enjoying the book, Cookie's Week. This book is hilarious! Cookie, a silly kitty, gets into trouble on each day of the week. As we read we discussed calendar concepts like yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The children loved seeing all of Cookie's crazy adventures.

We read Cookie's Week each day and then the children made their own "week" book. We talked about the things that we had done in class each day and the children were asked to draw a picture of something that they did that day either in class or at home and also write a sentence about it. I encouraged them to try and spell things on their own and I was really impressed! We are awesome writers!

Each day we spend time with our calendar. We discuss different upcoming events and important dates to remember. The children often will tell me that they have dance on Tuesdays and will always remind me that we have ice cream on Fridays. It is important for them to understand what the calendar means and why it is important. I always tell them how important it is in case they have somewhere to go or something to do. By working on our "week" books, they were thinking about their days and what each one means to them.

Be sure to check these out when they bring them home! They did a fantastic job!!

Happy 100th Day of School!

Yesterday was our 100th day of school. We did lots of 100 activities to celebrate this fun day! We read one of my very favorite 100 day books, Jake's 100th Day of School by Lester Laminack. Lester was my professor at WCU and is an amazing writer and teacher. No surprise this is one of my favorites! We read the story and we talked about the things that we did that were similar to the things that Jake's class did to celebrate the 100th day.

One thing that we did that Jake's class did was make a 100th day snack. Here is the recipe in case you want to make your own!

10 Marshmallows, 10 Goldfish, 10 pretzels, 10 chocolate chips, 10 raisins, 10 white chocolate chips, 10 chex , 10 cheerios, 10 piece of caramel corn, 10 m&m's

Add them together and you get 100 yummy things to eat!

We counted all the way to 100 this morning by 1's and by 10's. We had been building up to this all year! We also made a 100 chain of 100 links. Each day we would take our links and estimate and measure something in our classroom. Today we put all 100 links together and we went out into our school to measure. We found that the bookshelf in the hall was 100 links, the lunchtables were less than 100 links, and BIG RED (our inside slide) was also shorter than 100 links. Our line was also shorter!

Then the students shared their 100th day projects. Each student was supposed to bring in 100 of anything that they chose, however they chose to share with our class. We had ALL kinds of creative projects to share!

We had a book filled with 100 things we have learned in Kindergarten

We had things made out of 100 legos!

We had 100 seashells collected at grandma's house.

We had collections of 100 pieces of popcorn, 100 stickers, and 100 buttons.

And then we had 100 YUMMY treats... actually 200! Boy they loved eating those!


We also had a great picture of a man fishing made out of snacks!