It's a birthday!

Happy Birthday!  Thanks for sharing treats!!!

The Highlight Reel

You all are amazing!  Thank you so much for sending in art supplies and play dough toys!  The kids are thrilled and we are stocked.  We so appreciate your generosity. 

This week we have done a lot of fun things.  We did some fun things to learn each other’s names.  We made lots of class books for us to read together that will help us get to know each other better.  We also made a torn paper letter art with our names.  They sure do brighten up our room!

At Beulah Ralph we want our students to be kind, respectful, responsible, positive and a problem solver.  These are big words and ideas.  We have been working on understanding these words.  We have focused on one each day.  Here are some of our ideas. (This is our sloppy copy.  It will be neat and complete with pictures when we finish and hang it up! 

I am totally impressed at how well the kids are able to articulate their ideas about these big words.  To show that we will strive to do these things we used paper collage and created a self-portrait.  These will hang on our wall all year as a promise to each other that we can do it.  

We are beginning to learn about letter formation.  Many of the kids have a great base of letter knowledge by site.  Now we are working on how to form these letters.  We are using whiteboards to help us learn this.  T is our first letter!  Ask your child to tell you about how we make our ts. 

In math we are working on counting objects and saying one number for each object.  We played a partner game that helped us do this.  (I can't get the video to load!  For some reason it is flattening when I publish it.  So at least you can see a really cute picture.)

We also took a number walk.  We looked for places around our school where we see numbers.  We did a great job!  Check out some of the places we see numbers.  Next week, I will add pictures to go with our words so they kids can read them too.  

By far our favorite time of day is our choice time.  The kids can choose between kitchen, Legos, play dough, art, books, animals and blocks, snap cubes and pattern blocks.  Next week we will add puzzles and possibly painting!  (If I’m feeling brave!)

Next week, I would love to have each kid share a picture of his or her family.  We will take turns sharing these and then I would like to keep them in cubbies as a way to help make the kids make their cubbies their own.  Please send a picture of your family some time next week.  I plan to laminate them so please do not to send originals.  The daily take home folder is a great place to send it in.  We will be sharing them all week.  

This week we started Daily Take Home Folders.  Please check them each night and return them to school the next day.  Today I added a reading log in the pocket on the back of the folder.  Our only homework this year will be to read at home.  Please read to your child each day and log what you read.  Reading together is a great way to connect with your child and help your child develop a love of books.  Keep the log in the pocket on the back of the Daily Take Home Folder.  I will trade the page our each month.  Thanks for all your support!  

I have so enjoyed your kids this week!  Have a wonderful weekend! 

Lenny!

Welcome to kindergarten Lenny!  The kids love him already.  Many of them even held him.  We were very brave! 

First Week Fun!

I finally figured it out!  Here are some pictures of our first week fun.  We drew ourselves as Lego people.  We read The Kissing Hand and drew our families.  We are working on making a kissing hand of our own and that will continue into next week!  I think the kids were most excited about choice time!  Each day they longingly asked when it was time to play.  We have busily been learning about our school routines.  I am totally impressed by how well everyone is catching on.  Next week will be great!  Take a peek at what we've been doing! 

See you Monday!