I was so focused on the Thursday note home that I forgot to tell you about Wednesday's wonderful news!
The day started adding decorations and sentences to our duck's under the umbrella's so that they could decorate the halls.
It is exciting to see how some of them are labeling their picture and even adding full sentences to their artwork.
In Second Step, we tried to sing Row Row Row your boat as a round and discovered how hard it is to pay attention to one group and ignore the other group. This was a great introduction to a story about ignoring distractions and paying attention. After school, Mrs. Bartsch brought in a beautiful Big Book on Butterflies so in the next couple of days, the children will be reviewing the life cycle in many ways!
Yesterday afternoon, we had 2 very special visitors. Mrs. Hansen stopped into see us before they made one last trip to the storage shed. She came after the last recess, and for show and tell brought her daughter Zoe who is a lot of fun! The children had fun showing her the butterflies, too! As we said good-bye again some of us got teary eyed, but we are grateful for the time she could be with us.
Yesterday, one of our students realized she could read! It was such a special "ah-ha" moment for her anda treasured teacher moment for me! We work so hard to put together the skills it takes to read and we have students at many levels of awareness of print, that to actually watch her eyes light up and share her proud moment, made me so thankful to be a Kindergarten teacher!
Sincerely,
Carol Clapper
I am working to get Mrs. Bartsch's email set up to enter on the Blog, and learn how Mrs. Hansen added things like the newsletter. So bear with us as we make this change, and thanks for reading our Blog!
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