K-1's Chatter: April 2014

Friday, April 25, 2014

Surprise, Pat!

We had an assembly today for Pat to celebrate her retirement. She loves Elvis and he came to sing to her today! Her family was there, too. It was a fun celebration!

Millie and Her Lamb Tim

We got to meet Millie's month old lamb named Tim today. She taught us all about him and the other lambs on her farm.

We had MAD time today in the cafeteria. We did our morning message today. We read a story about a kitten who thought the moon was a bowl of milk. We wrote about something that surprised us in the book. We made Conner’s Star of the Week book and introduced Emma as the new Star of the Week. We had PE.

Tuesday

Today was Earth Day. We read stories about Earth Day. We sorted pictures into what we could recycle, reuse, or reduce to help with trash. We made a Lorax. We watched The Lorax movie and talked about how it teaches us about taking care of our Earth. We had a visit from Sarah from Cedar County Conservation. She taught us more about recycling. We had Art.

Wednesday

Today was an early out day. We worked in three different groups today. A group of us read a story with Tessa, a group of us worked on nonsense words with Mrs. Jedlicka, and a group of us wrote color words and drew pictures of things that were the color we wrote. We rotated to make sure that each group got to do each activity. We had music today. We worked on our music program lines with Tessa.

Thursday

We did a science experiment. We created rain. It was so cool and we all listened very well while we did the experiment. We wrote about what we thought would happen in the experiment and then we wrote about what happened. We read a story about the water cycle and talked about it. We went to the cafeteria for Read and Recycle. We worked on beginning to do subtraction using buttons. We watched a bit of Happy Days and a song from Grease so that we could see what people in the 1950’s wore. We also looked at our classroom blog. We had PE.

Early Out-What Were Those Teachers Doing?!?!

We worked as an elementary school team on our Character Counts program. We talked about what has gone well this year and we began to create new goals for next year.

Something Fun Coming Up!

We will be celebrating the end of the year with a ABC letter countdown. Each day will have a special activity that goes along with the letter of the alphabet. A note is coming home today for you, but I will also include the upcoming week in the newsletter. Can you believe that we are at the point where we are counting down to the end of the year?!?! Man, has it gone fast!

Tuesday, April 29th-Amazing Artist-we will create art in class that day

Wednesday, April 30th- Beach Towel Buddy Reading-please send in a beach towel with your child that day. I will have the books!

Thursday, May 1st-Career Day-your child can dress up in something to show what they want to be when they grow up

Friday, May 2nd- Dance Party-we will have a dance party in the classroom.

Upcoming Events:

*Tuesday, May 6th-Kindergarten Program-please send in costume this day so that they can wear it to perform for the other grades.

*Tuesday, May 6th-Kindergarten Program-7:00 at the High School Auditorium-kids report at 6:40.

*Wednesday, May 7th-Inservice

*Friday, May 9th-Sarah Here

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Read and Recycle

Read and Recycle was held today thanks to the PTO! We each were able to pick out 3 books that we get to keep!

Rain

We did a really cool science experiment today. We made it rain inside K-1! We used water, shaving cream, and blue food coloring. It was so cool and it worked! Enjoy the pictures below! We also read a book about rain and talked about the water cycle.