Today was a fun day with our visiting Button Quail. The class had time to sit and watch them at centers. The eggs they hatched from are as small as your thumb nail, and the birds are an inch to an inch and half small, as little baby birds. They peep all day long. It is amazing what we learn by observation. They got to see how they drink, the different colors and patterns of feathers they have, and many other things. Ask your child about them. They got to sit and observe as a center rotation.
We wrote; "I like learning about ___________ most because ___________. They chose from butterflies, frogs, chicks, or Button Quail. We discussed how chicks and Button Quail are different. Another Kindergarten class hatched chicks a week ago. They were able to compare them.
We continued to learn about Vv and Zz sounds today; and we practiced writing High Frequency words. Where and Come were the High Frequency words for this week.
Mothers Day is coming, and we were talking about how special moms are to us. We began making our gifts today; shh, don't let us tell you. Sincerely, Deena Bartsch
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday
Thursday- Today was a great day! The class is adjusting very well, and I am also adjusting well. I am enjoying you children so much! Today we read a big book called "On The Move". It is about different kinds of transportation. We talked a little about where some of the kids have gone and how they got there.
I am amazed at how well they are writing words by decoding the sounds they make. We wrote zig, zag, vest, jazz and fizz.
We are having visitors tomorrow. I am bringing in baby Button Quail that my husband and I hatched. They hatched on Easter. We have been talking about the life cycles of butterflies, frogs, and now birds. Sincerely, Deena Bartsch
I am amazed at how well they are writing words by decoding the sounds they make. We wrote zig, zag, vest, jazz and fizz.
We are having visitors tomorrow. I am bringing in baby Button Quail that my husband and I hatched. They hatched on Easter. We have been talking about the life cycles of butterflies, frogs, and now birds. Sincerely, Deena Bartsch
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Late Wednesday
We apologize for not getting on here yet this week. I did try once on Tuesday and got a strange message about malware so I shut it down quickly and wrote to Mrs. Hansen. She couldn't find anything wrong and it looks like it's working well tonight.
So I'll start a short description of the start of our week. I only get 1/2 of a day with them this week as I went on a short trip with my parents.
Tuesday morning we started the unit on transportation around the world and practiced everything we could about the letters V and Z. One of the things we are talking about is our zipcode. Please help your child learn his/her address and zipcode. Since it's "z: week we are trying to use the word 'zero' instead of the letter '0' when we talk about number 0. Our friend, Zero the Hero, holds the place when there aren't any straws in our days we have been at school calendar.
The Big Book "On the Move" was bright, colorful and informative. We also heard amazing things about our star student, Orion including that he was named after a constellation! In Math we are working on the concept of one fewer and two fewer. You probably saw a worksheet with more than on one side and fewer than on the other. Playing number game with your child will reinforce these two valuable concepts.
Tuesday afternoon there was also an assembly on an upcoming blood drive. We are hosting a United Services Blood Drive next Tuesday afternoon from 2-6pm. Our school attended a brief assembly about this, please ask your child to share what they learned and look for postcards to be coming home if you wish to donate blood. The school that gets the most donations earns $500.00 for the school!
Mrs. Bartsch and I are getting things ready for Mother's Day and our visit to the Farm in May. A new calendar and lunch menu will come home tomorrow, so check those Thursday folders! Mrs. Bartsch has an exciting surprise in Science for Friday, so be sure to ask your child what was new in school that day!
I haven't had time to teach Mrs. Bartsch about this blog, but hope to soon. Have a nice end of April, I hear we are going to get those April Showers that I hope bring lots of May flowers!
Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper
So I'll start a short description of the start of our week. I only get 1/2 of a day with them this week as I went on a short trip with my parents.
Tuesday morning we started the unit on transportation around the world and practiced everything we could about the letters V and Z. One of the things we are talking about is our zipcode. Please help your child learn his/her address and zipcode. Since it's "z: week we are trying to use the word 'zero' instead of the letter '0' when we talk about number 0. Our friend, Zero the Hero, holds the place when there aren't any straws in our days we have been at school calendar.
The Big Book "On the Move" was bright, colorful and informative. We also heard amazing things about our star student, Orion including that he was named after a constellation! In Math we are working on the concept of one fewer and two fewer. You probably saw a worksheet with more than on one side and fewer than on the other. Playing number game with your child will reinforce these two valuable concepts.
Tuesday afternoon there was also an assembly on an upcoming blood drive. We are hosting a United Services Blood Drive next Tuesday afternoon from 2-6pm. Our school attended a brief assembly about this, please ask your child to share what they learned and look for postcards to be coming home if you wish to donate blood. The school that gets the most donations earns $500.00 for the school!
Mrs. Bartsch and I are getting things ready for Mother's Day and our visit to the Farm in May. A new calendar and lunch menu will come home tomorrow, so check those Thursday folders! Mrs. Bartsch has an exciting surprise in Science for Friday, so be sure to ask your child what was new in school that day!
I haven't had time to teach Mrs. Bartsch about this blog, but hope to soon. Have a nice end of April, I hear we are going to get those April Showers that I hope bring lots of May flowers!
Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
WOW What a fast Early Out Day!
We fit so much into our short 3 1/2 hours together and ended the day with a fast 3 laps around the school as part of the week of fundraising for Juvenile Diabetes and March of Dimes. Today we started the day with a fun Easter story, and then learned about Interrupting Politely in a Second Step lesson. Then we had a long recess and let our butterflies go. It was cool enough that they hung around on our hands and each child that wanted to hold one got to. The students were very quiet and calm and enjoyed a close up look at our butterflies before we set them free.
When we came in from recess, we had treats for earning the 300 compliments, and had a surprise visit from Eli's guinea pig because his Mom had brought it to his older brother's class. We took a quick peek and then headed to Library. Mrs. Bartsch met with me during library, so she went to pick them up and bring them back to the room! She is such a cheerful teacher, we love having her! Then it was time to get our backpacks, coats and our plants to take home. Many of the bean seeds did not grow. I apologize if it was because we had two different bags of soil and the last ones planted seem to do better than the first ones.
The final things we did was to Drop everything to Walk around the school. It was a very fast pace because the whole school participated. We were very glad Mrs. Treglown our librarian was walking so that she could take the front of our class and I could try to corral them all together. I was glad each child said "Happy Easter" to Mrs. Clapper so I knew that they got to their ride home! Whew! Now I need to head to Teacher meetings and then to the airport to get my daughter and granddaughter!
Next week we will have both Vv and Zz for Show and Tells. Tuesday students told me they would try hard to remember their two things of come up with something to say about V and Z words!
Have a nice vacation!
Sincerely, Carol Clapper
When we came in from recess, we had treats for earning the 300 compliments, and had a surprise visit from Eli's guinea pig because his Mom had brought it to his older brother's class. We took a quick peek and then headed to Library. Mrs. Bartsch met with me during library, so she went to pick them up and bring them back to the room! She is such a cheerful teacher, we love having her! Then it was time to get our backpacks, coats and our plants to take home. Many of the bean seeds did not grow. I apologize if it was because we had two different bags of soil and the last ones planted seem to do better than the first ones.
The final things we did was to Drop everything to Walk around the school. It was a very fast pace because the whole school participated. We were very glad Mrs. Treglown our librarian was walking so that she could take the front of our class and I could try to corral them all together. I was glad each child said "Happy Easter" to Mrs. Clapper so I knew that they got to their ride home! Whew! Now I need to head to Teacher meetings and then to the airport to get my daughter and granddaughter!
Next week we will have both Vv and Zz for Show and Tells. Tuesday students told me they would try hard to remember their two things of come up with something to say about V and Z words!
Have a nice vacation!
Sincerely, Carol Clapper
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
300 Compliment Day
We did it! We got to 300 compliments today. So we got to watch the Butterfly Magic School Bus video AND have centers too!
Tomorrow I will bring cake and milk to finish the celebration!
We did a fun math sheet to practice our numbers and I see less and less reversals everytime we write the numbers. 21 and 12 still cause a little problem but we are improving!
Q show and tell was AWESOME! We sat around a quilt and had such creative ideas. I can't even just pick one or two to tell you about. Have your child tell you about some of his/her favorites.
Tomorrow is Library Day and Early out Day! We are also walking for our theme fundraising day at 11:40. Come join us if you want. We will have our backpacks loaded and after walking around at least once with your child you can take them whenever you want. I will make sure bus students and day care get to their appropriate places at the right time!
We read one of my favorite Little Golden Books called the Egg Book. See if your child knows how the bunny and the duckling became friends!
Have a nice evening!
Sincerely, Carol Clapper
Tomorrow I will bring cake and milk to finish the celebration!
We did a fun math sheet to practice our numbers and I see less and less reversals everytime we write the numbers. 21 and 12 still cause a little problem but we are improving!
Q show and tell was AWESOME! We sat around a quilt and had such creative ideas. I can't even just pick one or two to tell you about. Have your child tell you about some of his/her favorites.
Tomorrow is Library Day and Early out Day! We are also walking for our theme fundraising day at 11:40. Come join us if you want. We will have our backpacks loaded and after walking around at least once with your child you can take them whenever you want. I will make sure bus students and day care get to their appropriate places at the right time!
We read one of my favorite Little Golden Books called the Egg Book. See if your child knows how the bunny and the duckling became friends!
Have a nice evening!
Sincerely, Carol Clapper
Monday, April 18, 2011
1st of 2 Earth Day Celebrations
Today we wore green and did some of the Earth Day activities. I just got an email that the PTA has picked April 29th as a school wide day to CELEBRATE EARTH DAY. We will have planting, sprucing up our school grounds and collecting gently used, clean towels and blankets for the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter. So we will do recycle, reduce, reuse lessons both days as well as talk about how we can take care of this wonderful world we live in.
We received a letter from a Kindergarten class of 15 students in Newport, Washington. They wrote to 100 schools on their 100th day of school. They are hoping to receive 100 responses. As it turns out one of the pages we did not get to last week in our Reader/Writer notebook was a form to teach general letter composition. It had the children fill out a short letter to a family member or friend. So I had the student's write what they would put in a letter to Cherenne and then we combined our ideas into out long group letter that I typed out on the computer! We will mail it from school tomorrow!
Please help your child remember that Tuesday is Qq day and EVERYONE can bring a show and tell that starts with the letter 'q'. It helps if they bring it in a bag or envelope as many of them like to keep it a secret until it's their turn to share. We are going to gather around my huge college quilt and share our items one at a time. Also, tomorrow, we are also talking more about the quarter and how much it is worth and what other coins equal 25 cents! If we have time I hope to do some more spring reading especially one of my favorites called 'The Egg Book" It's a short week and I always try to plan too much!
All five butterflies are out and if it is warmer tomorrow we will let them go. We have earned 299 compliments. When we get one more I will bring a compliment cake and we will celebrate and watch the "Butterflies" movie of the Magic School Bus series.
Thanks for reading all this to keep up to date on what we are learning in Kindergarten at Meadowlark!
Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper
We received a letter from a Kindergarten class of 15 students in Newport, Washington. They wrote to 100 schools on their 100th day of school. They are hoping to receive 100 responses. As it turns out one of the pages we did not get to last week in our Reader/Writer notebook was a form to teach general letter composition. It had the children fill out a short letter to a family member or friend. So I had the student's write what they would put in a letter to Cherenne and then we combined our ideas into out long group letter that I typed out on the computer! We will mail it from school tomorrow!
Please help your child remember that Tuesday is Qq day and EVERYONE can bring a show and tell that starts with the letter 'q'. It helps if they bring it in a bag or envelope as many of them like to keep it a secret until it's their turn to share. We are going to gather around my huge college quilt and share our items one at a time. Also, tomorrow, we are also talking more about the quarter and how much it is worth and what other coins equal 25 cents! If we have time I hope to do some more spring reading especially one of my favorites called 'The Egg Book" It's a short week and I always try to plan too much!
All five butterflies are out and if it is warmer tomorrow we will let them go. We have earned 299 compliments. When we get one more I will bring a compliment cake and we will celebrate and watch the "Butterflies" movie of the Magic School Bus series.
Thanks for reading all this to keep up to date on what we are learning in Kindergarten at Meadowlark!
Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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