Week 13 - Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, Veterans Day

Dear Parents,

This week we spent time learning about some of our country's symbols.  We read a book called The Impossible Patriotism Project.  It was a really great story and it inspired us to create our own projects.  We shared them Friday and Monday of this week!  The kids did a great job.  Thank you for working with them on this at-home project.  It was a great way to show respect for our country and the men and women who proudly serve!  

Sincerely,

Week 12 - Fall Centers

Dear Parents,

The kids had so much fun visiting the neighboring Kindergarten classrooms to enjoy  Fall Centers.  They got to play pumpkin-themed centers in Ms. Evans' room.  In Mrs. Stanton's room they had fun making spider crafts.  In Mrs. Wade's room, they made all sorts of bat crafts and had fruit kabobs!  Yum!  In our classroom the kids played scarecrow games and won prizes for participating!  Thank you to all parents who were able to come and help out with the activities!  

Sincerely,

Week Eleven - Gravity

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Dear Parents,

This week we learned about gravity.  What comes up must come down!!!  We watched a BrainPopJr. video and read a book about gravity.  We participated in some hands-on activities such as block tower building and airplane flying contests.  We used straws to blow cotton balls across the finish line and raced our cars down wooden block ramps.  We loved the cup catapults but these will need tweaking next year as they kept falling apart!  
Thank you to all parents for coming in for the Fall Conference.  It was a pleasure to share good news with you regarding your child! Thank you, too, for our delicious lunches all week!  What a wonderful and generous treat!  

Enjoy your week!

Motion - Week Ten

Dear Parents,

Students enjoyed learning about motion and force and push and pull this week.  We also got to visit our in-school field trip with Nana Nature. She taught us about force, of course!  We then got to hear a presentation from WellStar on healthy food choices.  Our instructor gave us a wonderful placemat to help us remember to eat healthy!  Finally, we got to participate in Jump Rope for Heart.  What a busy week we had!

Sincerely,

Christopher Columbus - Weeks Nine and Ten

Dear Parents,

Students had two great short weeks learning about Columbus and his attempt to discover the new world.  We made our own boat mini books about Columbus as well as a necklace to help us retell the story.  We met with our book buddies and they helped us complete a needs and wants page on the things Columbus and his men took on their voyage.  We enjoyed some fun in the sun at recess (our favorite part of the day!!) and we also worked in our book boxes.

Sincerely,

Fall Parent Teacher Conferences

Dear Parents,

It’s that time of year!  Please click on the icon below to sign up for a fall conference to discuss your child’s progress.  

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This link will be available until Oct. 8^th.    If you need to make changes after that, please send in a note or email to let me know.

Sincerely,

Animals and their Babies - Week Eight

Dear Parents,

Another busy week in Kindergarten!  We met with our book buddies and they were wonderful to help us cut out our animal sound bubbles.  We glued them to the correct animal! We had fun learning about decomposing by reading Five Little Ducks!  We also got to play a game called Race to 10 using a ten frame, die, and counters!  How neat!  On Thursday, we got to visit some apple centers in the room.   We taste tested apples and chose a favorite!  We made a really cute craft showing the steps in the life cycle of an apple and we also made applesauce!  It was lots of fun!  Our field trip to the dairy farm was a blast!  The kids behaved very well and really enjoyed seeing all the farm animals and hearing about life on a farm from our tour guide.  We also took a ride on a tractor and got to stop in the field and feed the cows!  Boy, were they hungry!!!  We wrapped up the trip with lunch and walk through the corn field!  How fun is that?

Thank you to all parents who attended this trip!

Have a great weekend!

Animals - Week Seven

Dear Parents,

This week we learned about animals and how they move.  We sorted them by their covering and we compared and contrasted them to see how they were the same and different.  The kids had fun working with shapes, sorting manipulatives, and tossing two-sided counters to see which color had more or less.  The excitement is building for our field trip next week!  Hopefully, we will have good weather!

Sincerely,

Jobs - Week Six

Dear Parents,

The students had fun this week learning about different types of community helpers.  We read about fire fighters, doctors, and police officers. 

Our Book Buddies helped us assemble our doctor bags…how nice of them!  

We had fun comparing shapes, stamping and tracing numbers, and recording how our beans fell during math groups.  One of our favorite activities is our morning songs!  We love to sing and dance!  We sure stay busy!!!

Sincerely,

My Global Address - Week Five

Dear Parents,
This week in Kindergarten we learned about our Global Address.  We made posters to help us learn exactly where we are in the world! We also made flip books to help us learn our street address, city, county, state, country, and continent.  We will continue to practice this throughout the year!  The students got to visit the Media Center for story and checkout.  We got to see it transformed for the Book Fair!  It looks really cool!  We also got to use the iPads that the PTA purchased for each grade level!  The kids loved practicing their reading skills during our Guided Reading time.  

Sincerely,

Home and Family - Week Four

Dear Parents,

This week the students enjoyed learning more about what makes a house a home and what makes family so important!  In Reading, we practiced Read to Someone.  We made sure to sit close together and we chose books from our book boxes.  We also began our ABC books with the letter Tt page.  In Writing, we wrote what we love about school for our August writing sample.  In Math, we worked in our Number Journals 1-20.  We loved participating in the dress up days for Friendship Week and getting to See Gutsy the Flying Fox was a real treat…he sure can jump HIGH!

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Pp is for Pajama Day and Pancakes!

Me and My Five Senses - Week Three

This week we learned all about our five senses!  Each day we focused on one sense  by completing an activity in our Five Senses journals.  Monday we observed a sponge with our eyes and a magnifying glass.  We noticed lots of tiny holes inside!  Tuesday we used our fingers to feel objects in our bags and then glued them down in our journals.  Wednesday we used our ears to listen to loud and soft sounds.  Thursday we used our noses to smell six different scents and then we circled whether or not they smelled good or bad...#3 was really bad (vinegar)!  Friday we got to taste different foods to see which were salty, sweet, or sour!  We also got to use all of our sense together to eat popcorn!  It was a very busy week!

Sincerely,

Me and My Feelings - Week Two

This was our first full week in school!  We talked about our feelings and how we are in control of our emotions.  We read the book, A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon.  We learned that it is okay to be unique.  During our math time, we explored some of our manipulative shapes  to see what we could create!  Finally, to reinforce our classroom rules and our knowledge of 2-D shapes, we created shape monsters and chose a rule for each to follow.  

Sincerely,

Dress Up Days!

Imagine the Places You’ll Go 

with Good Friendships…

August 26-30

        Let’s participate in these fun dress-up days to show the power of friendship!

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Monday: Let’s get on the peace train: Students wear tie-die and peace signs

Tuesday: Always follow the Golden Rule: Wear gold or yellow

Wednesday: Let Love Rule!  Students wear red

Thursday: Let’s Team up against Bullying!  Wear your favorite team shirt or Kemp shirt

Friday:  Always be a true blue friend!  Students wear blue

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Our First Week in Kindergarten!

Hurrah!  We completed our first week of Kindergarten!  The kids did a super job adjusting to their new classroom  and school.  I am excited to begin the journey of learning with your little one.  Kindergarten is a loving, caring, busy, noisy, engaging, hands-on, and sometimes messy experience but I wouldn't want to teach any other grade!!!

Our first few days were spent getting to know each other and the classroom and school rules and routines.  We will continue to work on these until they become second nature.  We will talk more about these at Open House, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.  I hope you can join us in the classroom at 6:30pm.  

I have pictures to post but I am waiting on a few more permission to photograph forms to be returned before I can post them online.  

Until then, I hope you all have a quiet evening!

Sincerely,

Kindergarten Ride-Along

Dear Parents and Students,

Cobb County is offering the chance for your Kindergarten student to ride the bus to school “with you” on August 6^th!  What a great way to calm your little one’s fears of riding the bus by offering a trial run the day before school with you by his/her side!  Please click on the picture to read more about this opportunity! (scroll down a little once directed to the Kemp website).

Sincerely,

Welcome Back!!!

Dear Parents and Students,

It must be that time again. Target

was stocking the shelves today with

lots of goodies to start the school

 year off right!

 Where did our summer go?

I have thoroughly enjoyed sleeping in

 and spending time with family and I 

hope you have too!

Please take a look around my blog.

There is loads of information and 

games for the kiddos to play.  I am

so excited to have your child in my

 class this year and look forward to

 seeing you at Meet and Greet!

Sincerely,

Happy Summer!