When We're 100!

Since tomorrow is the 100th day of school, I've planned some activities for us to do.  They include making a snack with 100 ingredients, writing how we'd spend $100, reading how Miss Bindergarten gets ready for the 100th day of kindergarten, counting to 100, writing to 100, and making 100 day pins.  Before we start; however, we made predictions of what we'd look like in 94 or 95 more years; how our hair would be gray, white, or gone, we might have glasses, our skin would be wrinkled.....below is what we came up with!!  A disclaimer....the music doesn't really match because I couldn't find any songs about being 100; this Beatles song was the closest!!

Our Hall is C-C-C-O-O-D-D-D!!

This month is spent learning about the cold weather and other things we think about when we think about winter....penguins, eskimos, snow, and snowmen (neither of which we see much of here in West Texas!)   We can feel a definite chill as we walk down the hall toward our room!  The words "Let it snow" can be seen all around our hall and creative penguins and snowmen decorate the wall across from our doorway.  I have the best artists in my room!

 
The pictures will come down in a couple of weeks and the children will write about them.  I'll laminate and bind their work into a book available for the kids to checkout.  Parents, you'll be able to see more closely what great artists/writers we have!

Sharing Our Canine Companion

Mrs. Dehlinger, one of our 4th grade teachers, asked if she could borrow Murphy as an example of a therapy dog.  Her class read a story about how dogs are used to help people and are trained as therapy dogs and companion dogs.  Since Murphy received his therapy dog certification and the kids have seen Murphy around school, she thought it'd be good for the kids to see him up close.  Both our classes met in the library where I explained a little about the therapy program.  Her students then asked questions which my kindergarten kids answered!  My class was able to answer all their questions and accurately!!

I had Murphy in his red therapy dog scarf so he'd be official:

All the 4th graders wanted to pet Murphy and give him a cookie, so I broke each cookie into many pieces so he wouldn't end up eating so many!  I think he enjoyed the attention and the cookies, my class enjoyed being the "experts," and Mrs. Dehlinger's class enjoyed seeing a live example of a therapy dog!

The Earth

Two ladies who used to teach in the public schools now go to different Texas schools and display inflatable planets and the moon.  I don't know what group the ladies were with, but they have presentations for the upper grades.  The kindergarten kids had the option to walk through the display between presentations, so of course, we did!


We are standing around the moon:

After warning, reminding, (threatening) the kids to hold and only hold the planets (reminders of no throwing, no bouncing, no tossing, no punching, no dribbling, no deflating, no biting, no squeezing, and I think I covered it all!) several selected a planet or moon while I snapped a picture:        

As we walked out, we passed the BIG earth, gathered around, and "held" it up!  It was fun pretending we could hold the earth!  We enjoyed seeing the planets!

Football Friday

Kindergarten is so fun (and random!) and I never know what will happen next!  After everyone arrived and breakfast had been served and cleaned up, Hayden observed 2 others who had also worn football jerseys and asked if I'd take their picture.  He then asked if he could get his football for the picture.  I went to my bag to get the camera and came back to the center of the room where I saw Hayden giving the girls directions to run for a pass!  I had them reenact his directions and took the following picture:
 

Of course, the next play was Hayden "running" for a touchdown and scoring, while Kate, who really isn't into football, had to get on the floor and cuddle with Murphy:

Then, we had the celebratory hug:

I couldn't have come up with a better photo op myself!  We then put away the football and camera, got out our daily journals and pencils, and came to the floor where we had our daily writing lesson and practice.  Impromptu.....a great word to describe most days!!!  Kindergarten is the best!!

The Great Gingerbread Man Hunt

 

 

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!

 

                                               Happy New Year from Tommy and Murphy!!