Happy New Year

Thank you for your patience during this busy time of year. Be prepared for a lengthy blog post full of several pictures and updates.  It's hard to believe how quickly 2011passed for us in the kindergarten room. We are blossoming into beginning readers and writers.  Take a look at some of our best journal pages where we created sentences with our sight words. Excuse the sideways pictures.

We also really enjoy our literacy center stations.  We love working in small groups and choosing our activities.   Our new favorite book went along with our transportation unit in reading. It was called DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! by Mo Willems.  After listening to the story the students learned about thinking clouds and had to imagine what the pigeon would try and drive next.

 We love domino math. The students pick a domino, count the dots and create a story about their number.   These students wrote about balloons and apples.

 We enjoy creating patterns and demonstrating that we know how to make several different kinds.

We had a wonderful December learning about December traditions around the world. Take a look at some of the places we traveled to:

We visited Holland and made "wooden" shoes for Saint Nick to fill with candies. 

 We visited Sweden and made Saint Lucia wreathes.

 We visited Germany and made pickle ornaments for our tree.

 We visited the US and learned how to sew stockings for our fireplaces.

Perhaps our favorite activity was our grandparents/gingerbread party. It was wonderful to meet the many special relatives that came to help their student make a gingerbread house.  There was so much excitement in the air. I know that this will be a day that our students will remember forever. I took pictures of each student with their special guests and will be delivering those to you shortly.

I hope you all enjoyed a peaceful and relaxing time away from school with family and friends. I am looking forward to our many exciting adventures together in 2012!