Happy Thursday!

Another great day in the books in K02! So happy to be teaching your kiddos. I hope you are using the blog and feel free to shoot me an email to let me know if you are :)

Here are some friends working on morning sentence again. Wow! 

We learned how to play the dice game today! It's a fun little brain break that we need in K :) 

We worked on illustrating and cutting out our self-portraits! I noticed only a couple who couldn't hold scissors correctly. This is an easy skill to practice at home (instead of homework). 

We talked about how we should draw ourselves how we actually look in real life! 

AWESOME NEWS! We started writing today! My most favorite author is Eric Carle. I talk to the kids about him all of the time and we read his books to learn how to be brave! Writing can be intimidating! Not for our writers! Look at Kiera! She wrote our first real story about life. You can't quite see it, but she drew the hermit crabs and wrote 'hermit crab tank' above it. Simply beautiful work. So excited to write with them all tomorrow! 

A hint: Never, ever spell words for your big K kids now. Tell them to say the word slowly and quickly write down any letters they think they hear. 

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Here we are doing our FIRST EVER morning sentence! That's right! Your child should be able to read and write two new snap words (or at least say, "Oh yeah!" when you show them). Haha! We learned that I is a letter and a word....and that C is a letter, but see is how you spell the snap word. 

Here's Will being a super smart writer...he's double checking his name at his table to make sure he spelled it how it looks in a book! 

Our finished sentence! I see Will. (with a period and everything!)

Today was more talking, more listening and more exploring some supplies....like pencils and crayons. 

Some people actually tried writing words! Kiera wrote tap! 

Noah drew a picture of our school :) 

Braylee obviously remembered the new word, I! 

Mackenzie was writing about her dog and the names of her family! WOW! 

Happy First Day of Kindergarten!!!

Today we spent a LOT of time talking and talking and talking! We have to learn how to line up, walk in the hallway, play, get the teacher's attention, what the teacher's name actually is, and school or cold milks! Goodness....of course there is an endless list of what we talk about and practice these first couple of weeks...so I will not be surprised to see a few tears here and there. We did talk about being brave in the morning, finding a friend and giving Mrs. Cota a big hug! 

Today we got our new markers inside of our new pencil boxes! 

Our class new a lot about markers. They knew that they would dry out if you didn't snap the lid on, that there is dye or ink inside, that you should match up the lid with the color, etc. Wow. 

Our first snack! We learned that snack is never a toy and it's a fun time to chat with neighbors :) 

We also had our first choicetime! I thought this was adorable. Skyler really wanted to read a book and he was sitting there reading away all by himself! Too cute. What a role model!