A Great First Week

Friday is here and as I look back over our first week, I can just tell we are going to have a fantastic year!!!  The children have been settling in our routine and getting acquainted with our school.  We had our Parent Meeting last night.  It was such a pleasure meeting and visiting with you.  I look forward to our school year and getting to know you all better.

Here you will see a little of what was going on in our class this week.

We made our first graph using the poster that is pictured.  We are learning many ways to count.

Take a quick look at a few of our centers we did today.  

Here we have a an activity where the children are matching beginning sounds.

We also lined cupcakes up in ABC order.

At this center the children were building and then looking for the different shapes they used to build the structure.  

Here we have a couple of  more folder games.  This first one the children read the number word and numeral and then place the correct amount of kittens on the mama cats.

This folder game involved placing the cats in numerical order.

We have been talking about words that rhyme with cat.  It was fun reading the words by sliding the letter strip through the cat.

Each day we listen to a story as we read along with the tape / CD.

And this is how we ended our week this afternoon.

Well, we all survived the first week of kindergarten.  So, I would say, we had a fantastic week.  

WELCOME

Such a Busy Summer

We are back for another year of kindergarten.  I hada very busy summer working with Hand In Paw.  Ruby and I were on the go visiting Children's Hospital, Brookwood Hospital, the YWCA, St. Martin's In the Pines, and Hill Crest Behavioral Center.  We also participated in a week long animal camp at the Levite Jewis Community Center.  Wemet lots of wonderful people and worked with some amazing Pet Partner Teams.
I also taught a week long Art Camp at the YWCA with three other art teacher friends.  We spent several days doing clay projects.  Larry Gibson, the are teacher at Pizitz Middle School took three of his wheels there for the children to throw on.  It was on of the best experiences I have ever had working with children.

We did work with oil pastels in the style of Georgia O'Keefe.  We took a lot of natural objects there for the children to use for their inspiration.

The third project of the week was doing aquatic scenes using chalk and acrylics on tar paper.  I found this to be so interesting and fun!!I plan to add this to my classroom art projects.

And little Ruby went with us to the camp each day and had a great time getting all that attention from the children.

It was centainly a summer full of service and fun.

Time to go back to school.  Hope this year is full of learning and lots of fun!!

4-12-13 Class Update

We have had so much fun talking about bugs.  And one of our favorite's is the ladybug.  Take a llok at our Grouchy Ladybugs.

I love those grouchy faces!!

We had some more time ready with Ruby.  She has really heard a lot of good stories from some great readers.

Thanks for stopping by. We hope you come back real soon.

Hooked On Art

What a fabulous time we had this past Thursday with Becky and Beckie.  We love when they visit our school.  Becky Guinn is a retired art teacher and an accomplished artist.  Ten years ago she was hospitalized with heart problems.  She was givien a blood thinner that she was allergic to and became very ill.  Instead of thinnig her blood, it caused her blood to clot.  Due to this unfortunate reaction to the medication, her hands and feet were amputated to save her life.

Becky told the children that the removal of her hands and feet was a good thing because it saved her life.  What a great lesson for us all on how to deal with life.  Becky continues to paint and is an amazing artist and and inspiration to all she meets.

Thursday, the kindergarten children learned about the life of Georgia O'Keefe and Georgia's artistic style.  After hearing about her, the children did a hand's on art project in the Geprgia O'Keefe style.  Larry Gibson, art teacher at Pizitz Middle School, came to assist our children. He brought three of his advanced art students with him.  The kindergarteners loved having the older girls help them.

After the art lesson and activity,  the children went ouside to see Becky's Hooked On Art van.  Here is the picture of Mrs. Herrin's class and our class at the van.  Pretty cool!!!

We will be finishing the Georgoa O'Keefe projects tomorrow in class.  When they are finished I will post some of the photos here on our class blog.

Have a great week everyone.