September 7 & 8, 2016

Welcome to the wonderful world of Kindergarten! Get ready for an INCREDIBLE year of discovery and learning! Here we go...your child's educational journey begins and I am THRILLED to be a part of it! Each day I plan to highlight the main activities for you to follow throughout the year so you can talk with your child about specific things that go on during their day. I will also let you know of upcoming events and reminders so it will be important to read my blog each day!

Pete the Cat is ready for school to start in his school shoes. He is taking the kids on a tour of the school. Do we need to worry about anything? Goodness no!

The children will experience their first music class with Mrs. Hoselton today. Music is scheduled for a half-hour every other day.

 The children will be learning about how to get their lunch tray and the routine/procedures involved during lunch.

Modeling: How to use Crayons
As adults, we assume children "just know" what to do with crayons. Digging deeper into understanding what the expectations for crayon use is helpful for the children to understand this tool for learning. What do we use crayons for? How can a crayon help our learning?
**ASSUME NOTHING. TEACH EVERYTHING**

  
~Be sure to check your child's Roundtrip Folder/VIP notebook and return it the next day.
~Please return the scrapbook page as soon as possible so it can be assembled into a class book.
~Return a spare set of clothes/undergarments to store in your child's locker. A beach towel for Quiet Time is needed as well.
~ If you didn't choose the snack cart option, please send a shoebox size, plastic bin w/lid filled with individual snacks for your child. 
~The book order is due Wednesday, September 14.


~Have your child wear their Irish Pride shirt on Friday, September 9.

August 15, 2016

Welcome to Kindergarten Video!

Friday, June 3

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Friday, June 3

Happy Graduation Day! 

Story: It's the Last Day of School  By: Maribeth Boelts

The Night Before Summer Vacation  By: Natasha Wing

Again, make the summer packet to be given to you at graduation a top priority the ENTIRE summer. The activities are simple, quick, and organized by day of the week. Be sure to read all summer as too many skills can be lost...the benefits FAR outweigh the duty!

 
~The kids will stay until 3:00 today.

~As I write the final update, I know in my heart I have given all that I could to help your child grow. They helped me grow in so many ways too! We became a kinderfamily that will forever remain in my heart. More importantly, they have given all they could to be such great learners! I want to thank all of you again for making our partnership be what it was for the benefit of your child. I would hope someday they would all say:

All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten!

 
Happy trails to you, until we meet again...

THEY WILL ALWAYS BE “YOUR STUDENT”

By Mary Amoson 

There is an unwritten rule about teaching.

Once you have a child enter your classroom, and they are on your role, and entrusted to your care,

they are forever referred to everyone

as “our student.”

Age has no hold, because a student of yours will forever be Your Student.

They are OURS. They belong to us!

I know they are really on loan from their parents for about 8 hours a day,

for 180 days. But that totally counts.
When I take my class to music or PE or any other room,

I remind them to “make me proud.”

When I pick them up, and sometimes get a not so pleasant report.

I take it personally.

I have to watch my tongue to not defend MY STUDENT.

When I see another teacher correct one of MY STUDENTS

sometimes I want to defend my student.

I feel a sense of protection over them.

I instead remind my student on the high expectations I hold for them.

When my students reach their goals,

I have an unreasonable sense of PRIDE over their accomplishment.

I love when a student of mine is in a higher grade and still visits me to share what is going on in their lives.

And if a parent can’t come to a certain event at school,

a students current teacher has only to share the need with us

and that students former teachers gladly step up to make it happen.

I have had mommy manicures, donuts with dad, and sat through countless award presentations as a parent fill in for that day.

And when students graduate from their grade, their school, or their program…

we cry WITH them.

They are our students.

We will miss them.

We will miss talking to them, laughing with them, sharing funny stories with them.

Then we see them in the world.

Sometimes we see them working at one of their jobs, working to make money. Our minds instantly revert that student BACK to their 5 year old self, who struggles to complete an activity with a partner. Yet NOW they have mastered that skill.

Sometimes we see them eating out. Our minds instantly revert them back to the lunch room, struggling to open that milk carton or spilling syrup all over themselves. We laugh and hope they are a less messy eater now… and that they remember to take the cupcake wrapper OFF the cupcake before eating it.

Your students will forever and always be your students.

Size, age, and maturity do not matter.

Once you are my kindergartner… forever my kindergartner shall you be.

Thursday, June 2

Thursday, June 2

'Be the Teacher' Day continued...
Hannah: How to Make a Paper Airplane
Evalynn: How to Draw a Bunny
Avery: How to Frost a Cookie
Andrew: How to Make Lemonade

Music Today

~Tomorrow is our big day! Be sure to sign in at the office and wait in the front entry until 8:55. Thank you! The kids will stay the rest of the day to finish our last hours together as a kinderfamily. 

Wednesday, June 1

Wednesday, June 1
'Be the Teacher' Day!
Uh-oh...My job is in jeopardy! Look at what these little wonders will be teaching us today or tomorrow:
Elijah: How to Make Stickers
Riley: How to Draw a Ghost
Rayna: How to Make Patriotic Strawberries ( A healthy snack)
Alex: Beginner Karate
Cohen: How to Draw a Truck
Mitchell: How to Make Yonana Sundaes
Keeley: How to Take Care of a Baby
Payton: How to Paint a Rock
Vander: How to Make a Bird Feeder from Things Around Your House
Parker: How to Draw a Fox
Khloe: How to Make an Oreo Dessert
Nola: All About Animals
Serenity: How to Make a Rainbow Fruit Skewer
Jeramiah: How to Draw a Shark
Sydney: How to Do 100 x 100
Tommy: How to Make Brownies
Sullaven: How to Play Baseball
Trason: How to Shoot with a Hockey Stick

Math:~Zero the Hero Day! We are 170 days smarter!
PhyEd Today

~We will continue Be the Teacher tomorrow!

~All of our "Mr.& Mrs. Wishy Washys" were hard at cleaning yesterday...