Party Fun

We had a great party! Thank you to the parent committee for planning this fun event.

Decorating Cookies

Each child got to decorate their own sugar cookie with frosting, M & M's, and sprinkles! They were delicious!

Christmas Party

The children had a relay race carrying the "snowball" on a spoon while wearing mittens. This took great balance!

Sight Words

You can see our sight words written on the frogs. Click on the picture to get a closer look. Keep practicing these words!

Classroom Christmas Tree

We've been busy making Santa, snowmen, and reindeer ornaments for our classroom Christmas tree.

Letter 'Z' Activity

The students really enjoyed making the letter Z with colored pasta. These are displayed in our hallway.

Music Concert

Everyone is all dressed up and ready to sing! The children did a fantastic job at the concert!

Thanksgiving Fun

The children enjoyed spending time with Mrs. Wells' Kindergarten class during the feast.  Everyone was in costume and tried several delicious snacks such as popcorn, cornbread, deer sausage, carrots, apples, oranges, grapes, raisins, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin bars.  We also enjoyed apple cider.  The room was decorated with Thanksgiving items and each child had their own placemat with their name on it.  Thanks to all of the parents for their cooperation in helping with supplies for this great event!

Happy Thanksgiving

We learned a lot about the Pilgrims and Indians.  We helped each other make our costumes.  We also talked about the things we are thankful for.

Thanksgiving Feast

We enjoyed great food at our Thanksgiving Feast.  Mr. Jungers and Mr. Dicks were our special guests at this event.

Mammal Tracks

Lisa M. brought mammal track stamps for us to print our own copies to take home.  This was so much fun!

"Mammals" lesson from BV Naturalist

Our BV Naturalist, Lisa M. made another visit to our classroom.  She brought several mammal furs for us to touch and see up close.

Carving Our Pumpkin

The students each got to vote on what our classroom jack-o-lantern would look like.  The results are on a chart in the hallway.  They each took several turns scooping out the pumpkin seeds.

Mrs. Witham visits our classroom

Mrs. Witham, our ELL teacher, visits our classroom once a week to practice our letters and sounds with us.  She creates a lot of fun activities.  We always enjoy her visits!

"Weather" Lesson from B.V. County Naturalist

The Kindergarten class enjoyed learning about different types of weather with our Buena Vista County Naturalist, Lisa Muesberger.

Taste Test

"Thumbs Up" was the signal if they liked the drink they were tasting.  We had a lot of fun with Mrs. Smith and her high school students!

Spanish Students Visit Our Classroom

Mrs. Smith and some of her Spanish students brought some South American drinks for us to try.  They had fruit smoothies, a warm chocolate drink, and a banana-flavored drink.

Class Photo in the Pumpkin Patch

We had a fantastic field trip to Happy Hollow Pumpkin Patch!

Picking our pumpkins

Every student got to pick one small pumpkin and one small gourd to take home with them.  As a class, we picked out a big pumpkin to have in our classroom.  

Happy Hollow Pumpkin Patch

The hayrack took us out to the pumpkin patch.

Fire Truck Ride

The Kindergarten class got to ride in the Newell Fire Dept.'s Rescue Truck.  We also received goodie bags full of stickers, coloring books and information about fire safety.  We loved the siren!

Homecoming

This is our banner for the Homecoming parade.  Go Mustangs!

Video: 1st Day of Kindergarten

1st day of school photos.  See their excited faces put to music!

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Star Manners Project

We talked about using our manners at school.  We created "Stars" to remind us of the rules.  They turned out great! Check them out in our hallway.

Mustang Football Reader

The Mustang football players read to our class every Friday morning.  We really like meeting them and listening to their stories.  Go Mustangs!

1st Day of Kindergarten

We read the book "The Kissing Hand" and then made our own handprints with a sparkly heart sticker.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog.  This blog was designed to share what is happening in my Kindergarten classroom.  I will be adding photos and video very soon!