Wednesday

What a fantastic and fun day! The students really did well today especially with having a special cookie decorating time in the afternoon. Each student had the chance to decorate 5 sugar cookies. They will be bringing them home on a plate. Most of the kids ate one or two of them though. :-) The students finished their December calendars and will be bringing those home today as well. Some students only filled out their calendar until Christmas. Mrs. Clapper and Mrs. Hansen worked hard today to get all the students dibeled and recorded. While we were working with students Mrs. Hamm came in and read Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. She gave them a great complement by saying they were a FANTASTIC class. Way to go Kindergarteners!! The day flew by and they did great! Have a wonderful evening!! :-)

Candy Canes, Presents, Rudolph & Christmas Cookies

That's what is on the minds of our students today ... we are sure excited about Christmas. My challenge is to keep everyone calm and learning in the process! We did pretty well today and earned 2 compliments!

We moved our Candy Cane decorations out to the hall and are going to call it Candy Cane Lane! Kelsey, our West High helper has to help two more students glitter theirs and then she will start helping the sew stockings. We also started a project that will be a present for our parents. (in some ways I sure wish it was P week) Please don't question them too much about this as we are trying to keep it a surprise!

Since it's "R r" week, we enjoyed one version of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Later in the week we will read another one and compare them. Show and tell needs to be something that starts with R r and three of our students can bring themselves if they want to!!!

Last but not least, we talked about the cooking decorating time on Wednesday. Many of the children said their Mom is bringing cookies. But I only know of two for sure. I know we have 24 snowmen and 24 bells coming. I asked the students who said their Mom was bringing Santa's or trees or stars to let Mrs. Clapper know. Some said they could bring frosting so I asked that they bring that by Tuesday, so I know how much we have and can supplement if need be.
So please email clapperc@billingsschools.org if you want to donate some sugar cookies!

Thanks! Carol Clapper

Thursday, Another Quick Day

Hello! The week is almost over and I am going to share a bit of what we worked on today:
Math- we continued working on 13, 14, and 15. The students also reviewed with me 12, 9, 20 and 17.

Reading- We reread our story for the week, Little Panda. The students and I came up with "N" words and stretched the words into sentences, they did amazing! Tomorrow they will label and write sentences with "B" words. We have really been working on the sounds letters make to form words. These sounds are what we are listening to when Mrs. Hansen says a word like, "PIG". The students tell me each sound segment of the word. (This of course is only one example.)

The students reviewed verbs today (action words, for those of you who may not remember) and comparing and contrasting.

Have a great evening! Thanks for all the love and support you show your child everyday!

Wednesday

Fast Wednesday! The class has been doing very well with the star student of the week! Each student will have a chance to be star student. The schedule will be coming home tomorrow. Please remind your child NOT to tell anyone when their turn is because we do a game as a class and try to guess the star student for the week. Be watching in the Thursday folder tomorrow for your child's form and time. Today the students were working in their reader/writer notebooks. We will be working a lot with writing. We are trying to get students to begin labeling and writing about their work. Have them sound out words and try to write it out at home, this is great practice! We have moved into the "teens" in Math. We really focused on 13, 14 and 15 today. We will continue with these numbers tomorrow as well. Have a great evening!

MONDAY DECEMBER 6th

This class is wonderful to work with! Today, we guessed Kaleigh as our STAR Student and celebrated her birthday.
Tomorrow, we will listen to her tell us all about herself and share a poster of pictures her Mom is busy working on!
She gets to be our Star Helper all week. As do our table helpers. Then next week we will change it all up and 5 new people will be our helpers. We had a great class discussion about how fair Mrs. Hansen and Mrs. Clapper always try to be. And how if a week is only 4 days long, we will made sure that star student gets and extra day on the really short 2 or 3 day weeks. If your child expresses frustration waiting for a turn, encourage them to be patient because when it's their turn they will get 5 days too. Thursday I will send the list out for the whole year. As well as the sheet you and your child can fill out a week or two before their special week.

Last week's Reader/Writer Notebook pages went home today. We left many of the pages undone. This does not mean your child was not completing their work. It means that the Jack and the Beanstalk unit was the 6th one of the unit and the authors put in lots of writing exercises we just don't have time for. One of the best pages that would be fun to do with your child was putting two stories in 1,2,3 order. (Chronological order, I should say for adults) Anyway if the children want to do that page and bring it back, they can get a sticker for doing Extra Credit!

We are in B week and our story will be about a Baby Panda who was born at the San Diego Zoo. It describes how she changes during her first year of her life. Our amazing words are " bamboo, curious, explore, healthy, measure and weigh.

It's a regular week for Show and Tell. Children can bring any item that starts with a 'b' even one of their favorite BOOKS!

Remember that tomorrow is our Holiday Luncheon and you are welcome to join your child for chunky turkey,gravy, and all the trimmings including a holiday cookie. Just bring the correct change for your lunch ($3.00) so the line can move as quickly as possible.

Have a nice evening!
Carol Clapper

Fast Thursday

So, here we are again, another day flew right by! Here are some of the things we did today:

Math- We created patterns, added on to patterns and sorted the shapes into categories. The students also played a game of math the number of items to the correct number listed. The students also worked on one-to-one up to the number 10.

Reading- We reread Jack and the Beanstalk and retold it through drawing a sequence of events for the beginning, middle and end of the story. The students worked hard at drawing and telling me about what they decided to draw about. We also worked with the words "he" and "for" and placing them in sentences.

Science- The students sorted different objects in to groups that held the same type of material. They did very well with this and they labeled their picture as well.

Phew! That is just a part of our day! Hope you have a wonderful evening! :-)

Wednesday

What a fast and fun day! The students worked on counting from 1 to 31. We are trying to recognize the numbers, their names and what they represent. This can easily be practiced at home too! The students have been bringing in show and tell that starts with the letter "N". We learned in Social Studies today what "accidental" means and what "on purpose" means. The students also had Library... phew! Have a great rest of the day!