December 19, 2013

Dear Families,

Today we are going to have hot chocolate and cookies! (Michah) If your child brought a snack from home it is still in their backpacks!

We got to watch the Polar Express with Mrs. Flanagin’s class. (Derek)

We had reading centers this morning! (Maxwell)

Today we got to go to recess! (Asher)

We got a letter from Santa and he left us a bell! (Trevor and Emma)

If you would like to buy a Mill Creek water bottle ($2.00) or a mechanical pencil ($0.50) from Student Council, they will be in the commons BEFORE school starts!

December 18, 2013

Dear Families,

We had a good time outside. (Devin)

We went to other classes and did other projects. (Nathan)

Today we made reindeer food in Mrs. Hotchkiss’ class. (Sam)

In Mrs. Flanagin’s we got to do a snowball fight! (Allison)

In Ms. Overton’s we made Santa number lines. (Kendrick)

In Ms. Hanks’ class we talked about Hanukkah. (Avery)

In Ms. Dixon’s We glued shapes on gingerbread houses. (James)

Tomorrow we get to bring a small stuffed animal and wear pajamas! (Kate) We will have fun watching Polar Express with our animals!

FYI: Some of the kids left their red folders at school if they were empty.

Have a great evening!

December 17, 2013

Dear Families,

Today we went to PE and we played an icicle game! (Hayden)

We talked about Hanukkah. (Lily)

They have candles and every day until Hanukkah is done they light a candle up! (Avery)

We made a top called a dreidel. (Stella) We made it into a doll!

We went outside and played on the Blacktop. (Maxwell)

Tomorrow the students will rotate to the other kindergarten classes and do an activity! They are really excited! Please make sure your child gets a lot of sleep so they can be ready for a day of fun! J

*Today was a great day! Thank you so much for all the supportive emails and conversations! 

December 13, 2013

Dear Families,

In Fundations we learned about rhyming words and got to sing some songs and see if they had rhyming words! (Sam)

We had indoor recess and watched WordGirl! (Allison)

Today we got to go to the computer lab and  play a game called Starfall. (Derek) PLEASE help your child learn their Mill Creek numbers so using the computer will be easier!

We got to dress up today! (Kate) Everyone looked great today and we got many compliments from other teachers and students.

We will eat cupcakes for Lily’s birthday! (Evan)

Since many are leaving early due to weather we wrote our email early!

FYI: If your child wants to buy MCE water bottles or mechanical pencils please send $ next Friday. Please remind them to buy before going to our wait spot. Once the bell rings, the Student Council teachers/students go to their classrooms.

December 12, 2013

Dear Families,

Mrs. Mielke came to our class to talk about good secrets and bad secrets. (James) Please check your child’s folder for more information on her lesson today.

We had a great time at lunch! (Devin)

We had outside recess. (Asher)

We are getting to bring home all of our writing workshop stories! (Xan) Please check your child’s folder to see how their writing has improved!

Tomorrow we will have our dress up day! (Michah) Our class voted on dressing “fancy” for earning our 100^th cougar compliment!

FYI: Mill Creek Water Bottles will be sold tomorrow, Friday December 13, and 20th at 8:15 a.m. in the commons.  They cost $2 each! Mechanical pencils are also on sale for .50 each!

December 11, 2013

Dear Families,

We had our writing celebration and had a toast! (Austin) Thank you so much for coming to our celebration! We had a lot of fun sharing our class and our stories with you! I really appreciate the support so much!

We got our letters q and z for our magnetic boards! (Kendrick)

We had a fire drill! (Trevor) Our class did such a great job going to our spot! We earned our 100^th compliment after our drill! Our kids voted to dress fancy to school this Friday! (Stella thought girls could wear dresses and boys could dress nice! Please dress your child how you are comfortable! This is supposed to be fun not something to cause stress J)

Today we got to eat with our parents if they stayed after our celebration! (Dayton)

We finally got to go out for recess but we couldn’t play in the snow! (Kaitlynn)

In math we counted candy canes and then matched the number to each group. (Nathan)

FYI: Mill Creek Water Bottles will be sold on Friday December 6, 13, and 20th at 8:15 a.m. in the commons.  They cost $2 each! Mechanical pencils are also on sale for .50 each!

December 9, 2013

Dear Families,

Today we went to the Holiday shop and got to buy things for our families. (Sarah Jane) We will be able to shop later this week. If you would like your child to go please send money in an envelope and I will have them go at that time!

We did our last 2 fundations letters q and z! (Emma) In our notebooks you will find a letter game to play when they go home on Friday.

In writing workshop we worked on making our stories beautiful for our celebration on Wednesday! (GeorgiaJane) We hope you can make it to our writing celebration at 10:00-10:30am!

In math we talked about the numbers 1-100. We counted by 2’s and 10’s using our charts! (Jake)

December 6, 2013

Dear Families,

This morning we got to go to the Holiday Shop to look around! (Xan) On Monday our class will get to shop! If you are interested please remember to send your money in your envelopes!

We finished our How to Make a Gingerbread Man books today. (Jake)

We watched a movie when we had indoor recess. (Kaitlynn)

Our class went to the computer lab. We got on Starfall and played some games. (Emma)

Today we made Gingerbread houses and a gingerbread train but they all kept falling apart. (Dayton) Thank you to those that send in our gingerbread kits and to Mrs. Allen for coming to help us!

December 5, 2013

Dear Families,

In writing we sounded out words when we were writing. (Kendrick)

Today in math we counted to 100 by 10’s. (Trevor)

It was too cold so we didn’t get to go outside for recess. (Austin)

We went to PE and did somersaults! (Lily)

We found the gingerbread boy today after specials! (Asher) We will get to eat him at snack!

December 4, 2013

Dear Families,

In fundations we got our new magnetic letters y and x! (Sarah Jane)

In math we worked on finding missing numbers on our 100’s chart! (Evan) We found number patterns and found numbers on rows and columns.

In writing workshop we continued to work on our stories. (Nathan) We added story language words and added feelings to help our stories sound more interesting.

Next Wednesday we are planning on having another writing celebration. We would like to invite our parents to this celebration. It will be on Wednesday at 10:00-10:30am. We hope you can come to hear our amazing true stories!

Today we went to art and finished our fall and summer landscape. (Avery)

December 3, 2013

Dear Families,

When we got in our classroom we saw the room was messed up! (Devin) The gingerbread boy came to our room and left a mess. (Avery)

In Fundations we practiced writing the letters y and x. (Michah)

In math we guessed how many were in a group. This is called estimating! (Derek)

We heard a story called the Gingerbread Baby. (Maxwell) We found out who the characters in our story were and the different settings as we read.

We went to an assembly and the 5^th graders sang some Holiday songs! (Sam)

We will be collecting new hats, mittens, gloves and scarves under the tree in the office from December 2nd- December13th. Harbor House, Rainbow House, Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Club will benefit from these warm and kind donations.

December 2, 2013

Dear Families,

We are going to read a lot of versions of the Gingerbread Man this week. (Stella)

We will use the stories to identify characters, setting, problem, and solution. We will also compare the stories to see how they are alike and different. Today we discovered that the gingerbread boy was the main character in our story!

This morning we made a gingerbread boy. (GeorgiaJane)

The gingerbread boy ran away from Ms. Nan when she was taking him out of the oven! (James) We will be on the lookout for him this week!

In fundations we learned about the letters x and y! (Hayden) Now we have only 2 letters left to learn!

We worked on our red dot side in writing workshop to make our stories better. (Kate) We had our writing partners listen to our stories to help us fix confusing parts and also praise us for our good parts!

In math we counted to 30! (Allison)

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! It was great to be back today!