I'm sitting here grading report card assessments (while watching Beauty and the Beast!... I think I'm five years old at heart =]) and I had to take a break and let you know how AMAZING your little ones are! This is my favorite time of year not only for the incredibly fun things we get to do - field trip, field day, beach day, graduation, park day... it's all just so exciting! - but also because it's the time of year when I realize just how much the K kids have grown in our time together. Just think... when they came into K most of them wrote their name with big letters, drew stick people, thought 10 was a high number to count to, and had no idea what a silly thing like a sentence was. Now they can draw the most incredibly detailed pictures, write so many super sentences, and can count and write at least to 100 (a student currently holds the record for writing to 250!). The K kids amaze me on a daily basis with what they can do and I am so incredibly blessed to be a part of it. I can't wait for you to see their report card, Moms and Dads!! =)
I don't know if you can handle all of the fun that's heading our way in Room 123 =]! Looking at this week we have field day on Thursday (Moms and Dads feel free to come cheer us on! We'd love to have you!!), and looking at next week we have our field trip to the Salisbury Zoo on Thursday and our Author's Tea on Friday. And that's not even the learning part! We still have ocean animals to learn about, about me books to write, and graduation to practice! I can't wait!!
Moms and Dads-- if you haven't already sent back the graduation RSVPS, the field trip permission slip and money, and the field day lunch form, please do so ASAP! Since we don't have a video to show this week (we're working in our graduation songs for our poems this week and we don't want to spoil it for you!) I thought I'd let you sneak a peek at our ADORABLE field day shirts! How stinking cute are they?!? =) =) We had so much fun learning about ladybugs this week! We learned about the life cycle of a ladybug, painted and labeled the life cycle of a ladybug on a paper leaf, observed Ladybug Land (which was full of ladybug LARVA!) and drew and wrote about what we saw. We can't wait to see if we have any adult ladybugs when we get back to school on Monday! Check out our adorable ladybug poem from this week. Can you tell we've been practicing reading with expression? =) We wrote, wrote, wrote, wrote, wrote this week! We wrote the Me in April portion of our Me in Kindergarten book, and we used a poem to write a text-based writing piece ALL BY OURSELVES with absolutely no help from Miss Warriner! I was so impressed with the K kids' writing that I told them they earned a popcorn party on Friday complete with an appearance by Mrs. Brown to check out some of their wonderful writing pieces! So proud of my Rider Writers!! =) Enjoy this week's poetry performance - watch out for the SURPRISE halfway through!! =) |