Happy New Year!

We are off to a wonderful start in 2012!  I was so excited to see all of my kiddos, and hear all of their great stories about the break!  I have to admit, they are doing a better job of remembering that we are in 2012 than I am!  

We made these cute New Year's Eve kids and wrote our New Years resolutions.  It took a lot of brainstorming, but we all made some awesome resolutions.  Some were: to help my daddy work cows, to help my family clean, and to pick up my clothes.

Kaylyn, Xitlali, and Samuel

The kids did a wonderful job of getting back into the routine, and having fun with math workstations and literacy centers.  Here are Jacob R. and Kevin having fun doing some mitten addition!

My'Yame celebrated her birthday with us on Friday, although her real birthday was Saturday!  I hope you had a fun "real" birthday party too, My'Yame!

We will continue our winter unit this week.  We will be reading funny snowmen stories, creating snowmen, and writing all about them!

December in Pictures

We had lots of fun and were oh so busy during the month of December.  Enjoy pictures of some of our favorite days!

I hope everyone has a safe and blessed holiday season!  I look forward to seeing the kiddos on January 3rd and hearing all about their winter break!

Thanksgiving Fun!

I am beyond thankful for being blessed with such a fabulous bunch of kindergarten students this year!

When I asked the kids what they are thankful for here are a few answers that I received: My mom and dad, my grandma, God, my brothers and sisters, food, school, and the list goes on!  

We had a blast learning all about fall, turkeys, and Thanksgiving!  We were so busy that I didn't get many pictures of all the fun activities, but I did capture the class favorites!

Our turkeys that are trying to be saved from being eaten at Thanksgiving lunch.  Each kid came up with something for the turkey to encourage you to eat more of.  "Eat more cookies!" "Eat more potatoes!" "Eat more chicken!"

Happy Birthday Jacqueline!  I hope you had a fantastic birthday!  

The day we wore our turkey hats that we made to lunch!

Working hard to create their model Mayflower boats.  Will they float?

Yes!  We were all able to make our boats float!  

What an awesome bunch of indians!

I hope all of you enjoyed the Thanksgiving break and spent plenty of time with the ones you love most!  Mine included family time, Aggie football, and lots of shopping!

My favorite time of the year is here!  I can't wait for the kids to come in the morning and see our Christmas tree all ready for some handmade ornaments!

Apple Activities

Hooray!  Testing is FINALLY over and Report Cards were sent home on Thursday! I am so pleased with the progress that all of my Happy Campers have made!  You should be very proud of your child!

In the midst of testing, we did some fun apple activities!  Here is LeAnna posing with the life cycle poem art activity that we made about apples.  It says "Eat an apple, Save the core.  Plant some seeds and grow some more!"

My'Yame, Herschel, and Kalli showing off their fun apple glyphs that they made based on questions I asked about apples.

We also celebrated Devynn's birthday!  I hope you had an amazing 6th birthday, Devynn!

Check back soon for scarecrow and turkey fun!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!

We have done many fun activities to get us ready for the big day!  Jacob did an awesome job creating a spooky pattern for his haunted house!

The kids really enjoyed learning about spiders.  To wrap up our spider week we did a cool spider experiment (for another post) and made these neat webs by marble painting for our spider creations.

I loved making these Trick-or-Treaters with my pre-k kids, so I knew this was a must do for kindergarten as well!  Aren't they too cute?  Jonathon thinks his is!

And today...FALL FOLLIES PARTY DAY!  What a wonderful, fun, and tiring way to start off our week!! :)  We partied all day long!  The annual Fall Follies parade was this morning, and I think my Happy Campers were the best dressed kids in the parade!

This afternoon we watched a fun Halloween movie, carved our pumpkin, played fun Halloween games, and ate LOTS of junk!

Xitlali getting our pumpkin prepared for carving!

I hope everyone has a great night and rests up for our new unit that starts tomorrow!

Outdoor Garden Fun

We started last week with Kalli's birthday!  I hope you had a wonderful 6th birthday, Kalli!

Also, we went to the garden to have our first Outdoor Learning Lesson with Mrs. Lansley!  She talked to us about the rules of the garden and read us a funny bat story.  Then she showed us the "bat bush" and let us each take a flower for our journals.  It was really cool to see how similar the flower looks to a bat!

  We made bat masks to wear to the garden, but when it was soo chilly we decided to keep them inside!

We have also been busy learning all about pumpkins.  Here is Devynn showing her painted pumpkin bag.  The kids cut out small pictures of the life cycle of a pumpkin and glued them to a piece of yarn on the back of their pumpkins.

Fall Follies will be here before we know it!  Every morning we count down the days until we get to wear our costumes to school!!  7 more days!!

It's Been a While...

One of our favorite color days was pink day because Jacob R. brought pink bubblegum for all of us to chew!  We all tried VERY hard to blow a bubble, but only a couple of the kids were able to show off their rare talent!  Here is Kalli working on a big bubble!

As I mentioned earlier, blue day was fun because the kiddos got to make these cookie monsters!  Kaylie did a wonderful job sorting her cookies!

The kids enjoyed getting to make their shape monsters because they were able to choose their monster's shape, color, and number of eyes!  I love McKenna's blue monster!

This past week we moved on to learning all about bats, and two of the kiddos' favorite activities were making these bats to store their -at word list in and the bat glyphs.  Anything with painting is sure to be a favorite in my classroom!  

Brayden worked very hard creating his -at list using his best handwriting!

Kaylyn is SO proud of her bat glyph!  It is hard to see in this picture, but Kaylyn's bat has a gold smile because she is not afraid of bats!  She filled in the blanks with "the, the, and see."

This week we will be learning all about pumpkins!  There is lots of learning and fun going on in our classroom!