This is going to be a busy week in Kindergarten. We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School on Wednesday with some fun activities with the other K, 1 and 2 classes. 100th Day projects can be brought in any day this week. I'm excited to see what you've done! We will be going skating on Wednesday afternoon at 1:00 (weather permitting). We had a lot of fun last time and hope parents can join us again! Remember to bring your skates, helmets and extra mittens. Our Skype will be taking place on Thursday morning. The class we are connecting with has had a lot of snow days and late starts but should be ready to go this week! Valentine's Day is Friday. We will have time to hand out cards on Friday afternoon. There are 20 kids in our class: Annie, Amaly, Caleb, Kade, Trenton, Kaden, Drew, David, Molly, Lexi, Samuel, Sidney, Tyler, Cole, Evan, Isaac, Keira, Zackary, Jackson and Ophelia.

It's going to be another busy week in Kindergarten!  We are going to continue working on sounds of single letters and groups of letters. Do you know what the letters /br/ say together?  How about /ch/? Keep practicing your reading and sight words at home.  We are going to keep working on adding detail to our stories.  Try writing a story at home and bring it in to share! In Math, we are working on shapes. Look around and see what shapes you can see.  Describe what a cube, cone, sphere and pyramid look like to your parents.  Find objects in your home and sort them into groups. Can you explain your sorting rule? Wonder Wednesday will continue this week with more activities on the brain and your five senses!  Do you remember what the brain does? We are going to begin to prepare for an upcoming Skype with a Kindergarten class in North Carolina.  Hopefully, we'll be able to connect soon! Library is Thursday.  Show and Tell is Friday. Check the schedule to see if it's your turn.

One Tuesday morning in Kindergarten all the boys and girls were sitting on the carpet when all of a sudden they picked at the carpet.  The carpet started to rise up with all of the kids on it and it began to fly.  “This is fun!” yelled Annie. Miss Matheson tried to grab the carpet and pull it down but it flew up again. Oh no! Miss Matheson was soooooooo surprised that she fell down and fainted.  Kade screamed, “Somebody help me!”  Mrs. Flanagan panicked and called the police. The carpet flew out the door and all through the school.  All of the kids in the school fainted when they saw the carpet go by. Then Mr. Comeau came out of his office. “That’s awesome,” he said.  Mr. Comeau jumped on the carpet for a ride.  They flew everywhere, even out the door! Mr. Comeau decided to stop it because he heard the bell ring.  “No,” said Sidney, “this is cool!”  Mr. Comeau grabbed on to a tree branch and told everyone to climb down. All the kids quietly climbed down and lined up to go on the bus. The police and firemen came and Mrs. Flanagan came running out the door!  The policeman said, “There’s no problem here! Why did you call us?”  “I must be going craaaaazzzzzyyyyyy,” said Mrs. Flanagan. Everyone laughed.                        

There is no homework this week!!! Have fun with your families getting ready for the holidays!   Wednesday - Christmas themed gym activities Thursday - Santa/Elf hat day Friday - Red/Green Day ---- last day of school before Christmas break   The first part of Kindergarten has been a huge success. I have very much enjoyed working with your children. Thank you for the continued support. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a fun filled break.

Only 2 weeks left until Christmas vacation! Wow!  This week, we will be finishing the alphabet with the letters Xx (Xavier fox), Yy (Yancy yak) and Zz (Zeke zebra).  See how many words you can think of that have these letters. Practice printing them at home.  We will continue to review the alphabet and letter sounds.  Use the sounds to help 'sound out' words when reading and writing!  In Math, we will be finishing up our unit on numbers to 5.  We will have some more centers with Mrs. O'Toole's class this week.  Library is Thursday.  Have a great week!

Our letters of the week are Vv (Vincent vampire bat) and Ww (Willie weasel).  The uppercase and lowercase letters look alike! Vv can be found in Evan, Vance, vampire, vest and victory.  Ww is in Drew, Waye, was, winter and with.  they are easy to print.  Remember to practice at home.  Show your parents how to use your 'magic' marker!   The Christmas concert is on Wednesday. There will be 2 shows, one at 10:00 and one at 12:30.   In Math, we are looking at ways to make the number 5 and we are practicing printing the numbers 0 to 10.   We are having lots of fun in our centers with Mrs. O'Toole's class.  Everyone is working hard and listening very well!   Library is Thursday.   Have a great week!