Terrific Tuesday

First of all, I am sorry I was gone yesterday.  Sickness always comes when you least expect it, even for teachers!

Yesterday the students made a new book for the classroom: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!  Who is in Our Room?   Everyone was able to draw a picture of themselves to show who is in K02.

Today we starting writing stories that teach.  We are also continuing to write new "risky words."  Below is "turtle."  In this story, the student was teaching how to paint pumpkins to look like turtles!

Below, Izzy is teaching how to swim.

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In math we are working on our counting strategies. We learned that sometimes you just know how many there are by looking.  Other times we have to point and count, or can even move an object to count it.  Today we were counting with bears.

Picture Perfect Thursday!

First I wanted to let you know baby boy Cota is here!  He came yesterday.

Hayden Thomas

Born September 10, 2014

about 5:27pm 

7lbs 11oz 

20.5 in. long

With pictures today, we didn't get as much done as we normally do, but the kids were so precious.  I did ask the kids twice to check their backpacks for money or the form, but we still found one after pictures were done.  While, we were able to get that "found" one done, I am hoping none of the little ones missed another packet.  But if that is the case, retakes will be happening later so there will be a second chance!  You can also order more pictures online with the website address that will come when the first pictures come.

Today we read the books The Loud Book and The Quiet Book.  We are working very hard finding out what kind of voice we should use during the school day.  We learned that even when we are quiet, sometimes noises can sound very loud.  We also talked about using our loud voice during recess and not when we are working.

The math problem for today was counting the number of green bears our table had.  We had to work together to separate the colors and count only the green bears.  Beau did a great job drawing the bears too!

Wet and Windy Wednesday

Looks like fall is here!  Some kids got very cold outside today.


In math, the kids worked on this problem:
     How may cubes can you pick up with one hand?

Some of the kids put the snap cubes into rods and counted, while others counted individually on the table.  After coming up with the answer, the students drew the cubes on the paper to show how they came up with that answer as well as wrote the number.  We had some great block counters!

Poor Taylor!  I didn't realize I got her with her eyes closed.  Here we are practicing our handwriting with the letter Ee.  We are also starting to work getting our names in the lower case letters after the first one in our name.  If you have a kiddo that is writing in all capital letters, it would be great practice at home to work on adding the lower case ones.

Tomorrow is picture day!  I can;t wait to see all the cute faces tomorrow.  Have a great night!

Mrs. Vollan

Krystine Vollan-Reavis

Big News People...

We are going to the hospital tonight! Yay! Hopefully baby Hayden will arrive in the world tomorrow. He'd better! I was due last week :) Haha.

It's been a true joy getting to know your little kiddos for 4 weeks. How lucky am I to have had this time to get to know them. Mrs. Vollan and I have been communicating non-stop to try and make this a smooth transition.

It's hard to let your class go, just as it is hard for the kiddos to re-adjust. Please encourage them at home. I will be back in December! I know Mrs. Vollan will do a terrific job!!! Direct any questions/concerns, etc...to her and I know she'll let me know too, so I'm in the loop when I return. I can't wait to return as well.

Please enjoy the Fall and think about me :) I'll email a picture out soon to everyone!

Mrs. Cota

Happy Tuesday :) :)

Morning sentence! We are going to be very picky about first names from now on. Just so you know...we'd like your child to only capitalize the first letter in his or her name. Some of us need extra practice...so we dug out our namecards and did it! 

Taylor found 'by' on the front cover today! Very exciting stuff people...

Practicing our snap words! See if your child can read these. Way to go Kelan! 

Here is a sneak peek at some of us practicing our namecards :) 

Work with your child at home on naming and finding the parts of a book! This is awesome practice.

We missed you Beau and hope you're feeling MUCH BETTER!!!!