Wednesday, April 30, 2014

This is what we did today!

We had writing. We wrote letters to our principals. Tomorrow is principal’s day. (Izzy and Alex)

We had first graders come read to us. (Claire)

We had art. We made the background for our flowers. (Aidan)

We finished Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (Ella McClary)

We did math. We did take away. (Chase)

We signed our name on a piece of paper for the cooks. (Emily) Friday is national cook’s day! We signed a special card for our cafeteria staff!

We had Fundations. We tapped digraph words. (John)

We are going to have a pizza party! We reached 100 Cougar Compliments. (Ishaan) This will be next Friday, May 9th. More information to come!

Miss Hank’s friends came in to show us the signs to our Kindergarten program songs. (Alex)


Have a great night!

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Here is what we did today!

We had math. We used the minus sign. (Daniel)

We had music. (Aidan)

We had a fire drill. (Ishaan)

We had Daily 5. (Vedant)

We had writing. We wrote for our Cat Tales book. We wrote a color poem. (John)

We read Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (Ella Murray)

Monday, April 28, 2014

Here is what we did today!

We had math. We played a math game. We had 2 dice and we rolled both of them. We counted how many in all and we colored a butterfly with that number. (Ella Murray and Vedant)

We had Ishaan’s birthday (Emily)

We had P.E. (Dominika)

We had read aloud. We read Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (John)

We had writing. We wrote about our weekend. (Ishaan)

We had Fundations. We did magnet boards. (Alex and Audrey)

We had Miss Hanks class show us the motions for some new songs. (Claire) We will be doing a special Kindergarten singing program for parents at the end of the school year! We are learning some songs to sing for you at this program! More information about this program will be sent home this Friday. This event will be on Thursday, May 29th at 9:45 a.m. in the cafeteria. After the program you are welcome to join us for a picnic lunch outside. You may provide your own food or buy a sack lunch from the cafeteria.

We had Daily 5. (Anthony)

We had science. We did living and non-living. (Izzy)

Mrs. Hotchkiss showed us her medal from her running race. She also showed us some pictures. She went with her friends. (Kaela, Josselyn, and Chase) The class wanted me to share this picture! It was a great weekend! The kids were GREAT for the sub!! YAY!






Wednesday, April 23, 2014


Here is what we did today!

We had music. (Alex)

We did writing. We started a book about how to take care of the Earth. (Anthony)

We did Read Aloud. We read Mercy Watson Fights Crime. (Jenna)

We did a sort. We sorted the needs of humans, plants, and dogs. (Ishaan and Claire)

We did math. We lined up cube trains and saw which one had more or fewer. (Izzy and Alex) This was to help the kids understand that with subtraction we can also find the difference between 2 amounts.

We had Fundations. We wrote on our Fundations white boards. (Aidan)

Announcements
There will be a substitute teacher in my room tomorrow and Friday because I am headed to Nashville for my half marathon this weekend. If there are any changes in transportation, please make sure you call the office that morning to let them know so they can communicate the information with the sub. There will not be a daily email sent home on these days as well.


Thanks!! Have a great weekend!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. (Ella Murray)

We had read aloud. We read Why Should I Recycle and It’s Earth Day! (Dominika and Charley)

We are going outside to plant flowers. (Claire and Aidan)

We had math. We did a sort with recycling. We had the most plastic. (Kaela)

We made recycle bags. (Ishaan)

We made books with Mrs. Cardetti. (Daniel)

We had writing workshop. We wrote about Earth Day. (John)


I uploaded lots of great pictures of our Earth Day fun to our classroom Twitter account! Make sure and check it out! 

Monday, April 21, 2014

Here is what we did today!

We had library. (Dominika)

We did the Daily 5. (Nathan)

We had math. Ms. Miller and Ms. Pence did math with us. We said taking away is a fewer number or smaller number. (Josselyn) The class acted out subtraction stories!

We read a book. We read Mercy Watson Goes For a Ride. Mercy flew out of the car because it stopped. Everyone else had their seat belt on. (Izzy and Aidan)

Mercy Watson was driving the pink car. (Anthony)

We had writing. We wrote about our weekend. (John)

We did morning meeting. (Emily)

We did Fundations. We did magnet boards. (Christian and Ishaan)

Announcements!


If you can, please send in a piece of clean recycling for our recycling sort tomorrow!

Friday, April 18, 2014

Here is what we did today!

We had art. (Dominika)

We did writing. We wrote our opinion about what animal we like. (Emily and Ella McClary)

We went to the computer lab. We played on Mrs. Hotchkiss’ website. (Chase)

We are going outside. (John)

We had Daily 5. (Lauren)

We had a substitute come because Mrs. Hotchkiss had to go to the doctor. (Daniel and Josselyn)

We read Mercy Watson. (Alex)

We are going to have my birthday snack outside! (Izzy)

We did a bean paper for morning job. (Kaela)

Announcements!
Next week, we will be talking about taking care of our Earth! We will be doing a recycling sort on Earth Day. On Tuesday, April 22nd, please send in a piece of recycling with your child that can fit inside their backpack. This could be a metal can, paper, plastic bottle or container, cardboard cereal box, etc.


Thank you!