Hello everyone and happy day 90 of Kindergarten .  As you’ve read in past blog posts and e-mails tomorrow is the big day–we will be 1/2 way done with Kindergarten.  Remember to have your child dress 1/2 one way and 1/2 another way as a way of celebrating the milestone!  I don’t know about you [...]

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Good Afternoon!  Today we continued our study of Mother Goose rhymes by writing about royalty in Mother Goose rhymes like the Queen of Hearts and Sing a Song of Sixpence!  We each wrote a page in a big book responding to the prompt, If I were king/queen, with my magic wand I would……….(the words would [...]

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Hello Everyone!  Due to the downpours throughout the day, the children were not able to test their Humpty Dumptys on the outside brick wall.  We are hoping to do that on Monday when sunny weather is supposed to return.  :) We were still learning lots of new and exciting things today in Room 102!  We [...]

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Good Afternoon!  Today for our 87th day of Kindergarten, we worked on 2 lessons.  First, the children worked to create a big book modeled after our Chugga, Chugga, Choo, Choo StoryTown read aloud.  Each child wrote the words, commands, and illustrated a picture to match the text.  Wow! For our second lesson, the children worked [...]

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Good Afternoon!  Today in Kindergarten we learned about a new word family  -ill !!!  We then used that word family to write in journals about Jack and Jill.  Each child tried his/her best to write out as much of the poem as possible and then illustrate. After snack, a new sight word was introduced that [...]

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Good Afternoon Everyone!  Wow what a very busy day we had filled with lots of things…..First, we finished our StoryTown writing prompt that we had begun yesterday and drew the illustration.  Secondly, we each took turns with Mrs. Durocher sitting out in the hallway doing 4 Aimsweb Math tests that are required.  That took over [...]

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Good Afternoon and Happy Monday!  I was so happy to see that every child brought in his/her GIVE ME 5 BAG today!  Hooray!!  After morning meeting, changing our classroom jobs, and a brief discussion about this weekend’s happenings, we were off to read about our first nursery rhyme. After reading through the story, Little Miss [...]

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Good Afternoon!  What a great morning we had in Kindergarten!  We started off the day with a brief morning meeting and an entry on individual weather graphs.  Soon after, we split into 2 groups.  Half of the group went upstairs to work with their 5th grade buddies on acrostic poetry writing.  The other half of [...]

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Good Afternoon!  After a brief morning meeting, each child worked on his/her individual weather graph and then went to the tables to complete a word-building activity from Storytown.  More than 1/2 of the children were able to do the work independently and all were able to read the words that were created.  It was then [...]

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