Life according to a Kindergartener

I love the age of Kindergarteners, they make me smile and laugh each day. In February we discussed Presidents Day, and our First President "George Washington". We read a book together, discussed the first president, and then I asked review questions. "Who remembers the name of our first president?" **** replies "George Staight"!!!! She was very exuberant and so proud she knew the answer, I couldn't help but giggle.



Same student today replied to an answer.

Today we are reading and discussing mammals. We talked about how all mammals grow, change, and then eventually die. Of course they started talking about dieing, so I chimed in and said that a lot of the time people just die of old age. **** replied "Like when your 19?"



Honey, if your old when your 19 then I'm ancient!!! LOL



They are always saying the funniest things, I just love these kids!



-Mrs. Haag

Grants

Exciting news in Kindergarten. I have applied for a few grants this year, and been awarded two different grants. The first grant is a "Literacy Rug" to use for skip around spelling, counting, and to use during circle time. The second grant is an "Art activity table". I am wanting to incorporate an art center into our daily activities. It is so exciting. The next grant I am applying for is to have a technology center. I am creating a project for small netbooks, so that the kids can take them back to their seats and discover reading and math on the websites we use during our class mimio board time.

Homecoming

Hannah and Kaiden were selected to be the Kindergarten attendants for homecoming. It is this Friday night. Come out and enjoy the presence of our school community and some good ole' basketball. I believe there is a soup supper that night also.

sick little ducklings

First day back after fridged days off and our class looked pretty puney today. I would say over half of the kids had coughs and just looked on the verge of being sick. Only one confirmed fever, I wonder what tomorrow will bring. It was so sad, the one kiddo I sent home was so eager to learn. He read a 30 page Margaret Hillert book to me with only one helped word "something". I was so proud of him, but I knew something just wasn't right.

On a brighter note, I am so proud of all the kiddos. They really are beginning to read! I had several read books to me today, and test getting 100%. Yippee!!!!!!

-Mrs. Haag

Book Club Online ordering

I had a parent ask me if they could order from bookclubs online. I'm not sure if it ships to the school or if it ships directly to you. I guess if you put your shipping information in, then it will most likely ship to you. Below is the link to the login page. Our username is "westelk1" and our password is "scholastic". For every order placed a book is donated to our class.

http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp?ESP=PAR/ib//eng/quick_pcool///phlp/txtl///

New Student

Today there was excitement in our class. We have a new student. Pictures to come. That makes 8 boys and 7 girls.

Christmas 2009