End of the Year Fun!

Well, the website clearly lagged behind all of our activities this year - so why not sum up the fun with our end of the school year annual slideshow! I just LOVE making these for the kiddos. It's pretty wild to see the compilation of pictures, remember all the fun we had, and to witness the drastic changes the students went through during the school year in just 10 minutes! Thank you for sharing your child with me for these 170 school days. Enjoy!

Bus Safety

We learned all about bus safety! This was important, even to the students who don't take a bus daily, because we have our field trip coming up shortly and we always want to be prepared!

October Fun!

Let's cruise through October with a glimpse into some of the fun we had that month!

One of our favorite Wednesday activities is iPad time! The McDonough iPads are already programmed with awesome educational games. Students are introduced to games as a group, then have time to explore the app on the own. We practice letter writing, counting, and early reading skills… and sometimes we don't even know it! :)

We continued practicing and identifying shapes - specifically, the square, circle, rectangle, triangle and hexagon. We even tried to make them with our bodies!

We learned a LOT from the Cops and Kids Assembly, too! Manchester Police came to visit our school, and we got to meet a real police canine and touch lots of cool police equipment! It was such a great experience for students to meet real police officers and learn all about their important jobs.

 

 

 

 

 

We also have been working really hard in Fundations, a phonics program based on letter and sound recognition and early reading skills. The kids LOVE using the whiteboards to practice letter formation. We finished working on the lower case letters of the alphabet, and even fit in some words based on the letters we had already practiced! 

 

We love having our friend, Mrs. Rider, come to visit! She is a retired science teacher and she brings lots of neat hands-on materials to share with us. She also knows sign language! We have so much fun with her, and can't wait to see what she'll bring to us each week!

 

     

                   

We've had a lot going on this month! I'm so lucky to have such an awesome group of learners this year!

September

What a great month we've had - we have been VERY busy learning the rules and routines of life in kindergarten, touring this very large school, and learning the names of all 20 friends in our class! September is a time for reviewing pre-kindergarten skills and becoming accustomed to an entire day of structured learning activities. It's an exhausting month, but a fun month!

We have been working very hard on name recognition activities, AB patterns, and basic drawing lessons! Check out all our hard work!

Friday Yoga!

One of my favorite things about Fridays, is watching the kids do yoga together! On Fridays, we like to "warm up our brain" first thing in the morning. Here are a couple of pictures from today… can you tell it's yellow day? ;)

If you want to try yoga with your child at home, this is a link to the series we follow - it's SO much fun! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cNjAj_o0SI

First Days...

I am SO excited for another 179 days with these AWESOME kids. We had such an awesome first week of school!