Happy Thanksgiving! 

Jog - a - thon Day!

We had a lot of fun running and walking at jog-a-thon!  Were you tired when you got home?  Thank you for the popsicles and for your support and pledges.  :)

Fire and bus safety week...

Mrs. Siemens and Mrs. Porter teach us about bus safety.

One of our wonderful fire fighters helps us exit the building.

Sparky the fire dog was waiting for us when we exited.

Mike Knoup did a great job explaining fire safety to the kindergarteners.  

Here are a few new pictures to enjoy...

Check out the green goggles we made with Mrs. Gocken for green week!

We love building in the block area!

We are fitting the ones blocks in the tens blocks, and the tens blocks in the hundreds blocks to build number sense.

Brynlee is smiling next to our number clothesline center.

Paisley is a number and letter detective!

These are the hearts we made for Peace Day.

Jarrett and his sister, Jaidon, share a caterpillar they found at home.

Jarrett tells his friends about Mr. Fuzzy.

Meet Mat Man - These are a few of our mat men that our reading buddies helped us make.

Mrs. DiBenedetto comes to share I-Care cat with us.  This week we learned about helping.

Shawn is putting the numbers in order on the clothesline.

Jace and Shawn work together to put numbers in order.

These are a few of our trees with apples from 1 to 10.

This is one of our Little Red Hens that we made for red week after reading the story 'The Little Red Hen'.

Apple Day and Germs Away!

We had fun peeling the apples for our apple sauce!

We drew 10 apples up on top of ourselves after listening to the story 10 Apples Up on Top.

This group is making apple prints with paint.

Briana's mom is helping us with the paint.

There were many apples to peel and core for the applesauce!

We are peeling more apples....

More apples for our applesauce...

We got to taste three different kinds of apples to see what we liked best.. red, yellow or green.

We are making more apples up on top!

After the Germs Away presentation we had our hands checked for germs with a 'special solution'.

Angie Johnson from the Pecatonica office of FHN and Barb Lessman from Freeport FHN gave a presntation about germs.

We are getting our hands checked before and after we washed off the special solution.

We recorded our answers to tell what kind of apple we liked the best.

More apples to peel...

We are getting our hands checked.

Jace's mom reads 10 Apples Up on Top.

We washed off all of the germs...

See.... no germs here!

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Our week...

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and had time to spend with their families!  Did you have a garage sale or go to any garage sales?  At school we are looking forward to our apple day on Wednesday!

Last week was yellow week.  We colored corn to put on our farming wall and on the back of our door.  So far we have tomatoes (for the color red), carrots (for the color orange) and corn (for the color yellow).  The beautiful sun that your child and you helped us make at our back to school night is at the top!

So far we have celebrated 2 birthdays at school!  Happy birthday to Jace and Briana!

Mrs. DiBenedetto came to our class again on Thursday with I-Care Cat to help us learn about helping.  Your child drew a picture of what he or she does to help at home.   The social skills we have learned so far are helping and being patient without interrupting (unless there is an emergency).

In math we started making a math bag.  So far we have 5 counting beans and a ruler inside.  We will be adding more counting beans after we start with the basics of counting forward and backwards from five and putting them on our number line (ruler).  We are building math sense.  We have also been learning about what is the same and different with different pictures from our math book.  We have been doing this together on the smartboard so their isn't a paper to come home at this time for this.

In fundations we have learned the letters, sounds and letter formation for lowercase t,b,f,n,m,i,u,c,o.  Please have your child tell what the names of the lines are that we use on our dry erase boards.

We are excited to start reading groups!  Today we read a book called 'A Park'.  In this book your child found a swing and a see___.  It is something that goes up and down.  During our word work time we also spelled the words 'the' and 'see' using our ketchup bottles.

Umbrellas for Peace Parade 2014

Peace means... you don't pop someone's bubble.

Peace means.... you are nice to everyone.

Peace means... you listen to your families and teachers.

We are getting ready for the parade!

We are lining up in the hallway.

It is going to start soon!

We love our umbrellas!

Thank you Mrs. Gocken!

We are getting ready to walk!

Peace means... we are kind.

Peace means... we work together.

We are peaceful!