Lunch Menu for December

Nov. 18, 2016

Kindergarten Newsletter!  

We met Mr. D. this week. He loves to dance so we did a little of that this week!

We did the Twist, the Disco, the Mashed Potato, the Cha-Cha, and a few others! :)

Now that Mr. D. is here....we could make even more words!  

We made had, sad, fad, mad, bad, pad, and tad.  

Practice this “word family” with your child!! :)

Mrs. Weichers has been taking small groups of kids to learn about the Sphere-O!
It helps kids learn about the basics of CODING!!
She has taken all the KV kids and will start with the KK kids soon!

We did a lot of dot-to-dots this week! That really helps us practice alphabetical and numerical order! The trickiest part is usually l,m,n,o,p!

We made cute little dogs out of two triangles!
The boys and girls really had to follow directions!

We wrote about our dads this week!

In Art this week, the boys and girls did some fantastic drawing!  

Mrs. Graves talked them through, step by step, and they made adorable dogs!!

We learned what doodling is! It means to draw absentmindedly while you are doing something else....like talking on the phone! WHAT you doodle tells a lot about your talents! There is actually a National Doodling Day sometime in February! We took some time to DOODLE while we listened to music!

We really examined the front and back of a dollar bill!

We wrote five words we could find!


Ruth Seehusen, from Farm Bureau's Ag in the Classroom program, came and taught us about the pumpkin circle! Ask your child about that! Then we made pumpkin pie in a bag! Each kindergartner brought home the recipe!

In Mrs. Koenen's math time, we learned about the dime!

We found a great youtube video about the dime!

In Mrs. V's math time, we are learning about the ten frame!

It is a very helpful tool for thinking about numbers!

An empty ten from is ZERO!
A half full ten frame is FIVE!
A full ten frame is TEN!!

Here is the KK Tribe!!

We went to visit Stacy...and share our Native American names!

The KV Tribe!

We had the most Delicious Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday!
THANK YOU to our cooks! Yum!



HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
(We have a short week next week...so no new blog post!)

Nov. 11, 2016

Kindergarten News!

We met Mr. R this week!  He is covered in RAINBOW RIBBONS! He gets them because he raised the reddest roses! He has a rather tricky sound so any extra reinforcement you can give would be very helpful!  Right on!

Brainstorming R words!!

We made Roy G. Biv! He is a great friend who helps us

remember the order of the colors in the rainbow!

We read a story called, If I Had a Robot!  

We shared something we would have our robot do for us!  
(Something we don’t like to do!!)

We held our own election on Tuesday!

Here was our ballot!

Our Voting Booth!

The results...

Hillary Clinton received 17 votes. 

Donald Trump received 23 votes.

We listened to many, many rhyming books this week!

We know that words rhyme when they have the same ending sounds!

Rat, pat, sat, cat, mat, fat...this is also a WORD FAMILY!

We LOVED our rhyming share! Thanks for being so creative!

We made a book out of it! Here are some tips about rhyming!

We made rubbing creations!

Don’t forget...

If you order something from the book order that you want us to hide for you for Christmas...just let us know! Ho, Ho, Ho!

Teacher tip!

Little practice tablets with easy dot-to-dots

(1-20) and color by number  make GREAT

stocking stuffers!!!

We finger painted on rainbow paper!

So sorry for the stained hands! 
The finger paint container said washable! Ahhhhh!

In writing...we finished our study of teaching books and moved on to writing narratives (stories)! Ask your kindergartner what they are working on!

We learned about recycling this week!

Reduce, re-use, recycle!

We read a story called, The Legend of the Native American Paintbrush. Then we learned about pictograghs.

That is how native Americans "wrote" their stories!

We wrote a short story USING pictographs!

Here are just a few examples of pictographs!

We went to Parker Place for a presentation from the 

Blank Park Zoo! We learned a lot!!
We saw two reptiles, a bird, and a mammal!

Reminder...we have a two and a half hour early out next

Wednesday, Nov. 16th!

More fun pics from our week!

Reading books with Mrs. Koenen!

Reading our books to our fourth grade friends!