Foamy, Fun Friday!

Everyone really enjoyed our sensory art project on Friday.  We sprayed shaving cream onto our desks and made fun, foamy pictures!!  We wrote our names, made fun shapes, and tried to see who could make the highest pile of foam on our desks!  When we were done, our whole room smelled SO GOOD, just like our Daddies when they shave in the morning!!!  :)

Our desks were super clean when we were finished!!

Jack says, "It feels good!"

Audrey wrote her name!

Connor's foamy fingers!!

Raise your hands if you're having fun!!

Aiden says, "Want a hug?"  

Welcome, Autumn!

We celebrated the first week of Fall with a great trip to Leaman's Green Applebarn!  The weather was crisp, and so were the apples!!!  What a beautiful day to spend outside, learning about God's creation!

The ground dried up enough from the overnight rain, so we were able to take a hayride, too!  What a fun, bumpy trip around the apple orchards!!!

Everyone was very interested when we learned that apples are "nature's toothbrush!"  Our guide told us that we could eat an apple and it would clean our teeth as good as a brush and toothpaste would!?! I made sure to tell the Kinder Friends not to "get any ideas!", they were still expected to brush with a real toothbrush every day!!  :)

Field trips are the best!!!  Honk, honk!!

If You're Happy and You Know It...

One of the best things about being a Kindergarten teacher happens daily...kids say, write, and do the best things!!!  This week we have been working with story lines, characters, and themes in our Reading Street curriculum.  An assignment that everyone loved included the song, "If You're Happy and You Know It...clap your hands, stomp your feet, etc."  Our job, after singing along with the video, was to finish the sentence with something that makes US happy, and draw a picture to go with it.  I got a lot of the usual, "playing video games, jumping on the trampoline, painting pictures", but my favorite had to be, "If You're Happy and You Know It...have a tornado plan."  !!!???!???!??  Dr. Frederick said it was good timing on my Kinder Friend's part, because she just had to submit our  tornado drill plan to the county!!  That should make him happy - safety first!!!  Check it out!

Love, Love, Love it!!!

Here a a couple more...

Good Morning!

When Kindergarten friends enter the room each day, there is work waiting for them on their desks.  We call it our Morning Work.  Right now we are working on letter sounds and number recognition.

When Morning Work is done in Kindergarten, we have two options to choose from while the rest of our friends are still finishing...Writing Center or Library.  We LOVE to create in the Writing Center, and our families get all kinds of "letters" and pictures coming home daily!  Library time finds us "reading" together, looking at great pictures, and especially playing with the I Spy books, our favorites!!!!

An Apple a Day!

Friday was our first art day, and our masterpieces are ready for viewing!  Friday was the hottest day I can remember in my teaching career...AND of course, it was art day (which makes me sweat in the middle of winter!).  :)  Either way,  I hope you enjoy our work.  Our classroom looks so much brighter and happier!!!

KinderFriends - Welcome

Welcome!  I have been "writing" this first blog post in my mind for the past week, and I'm finally putting "on paper!"  Whew!  It's amazing how busy the first few weeks of school can be!

I am super excited to share my thoughts and our classroom happenings through our KinderFriends blogspot!  There are always so many things that I want to put into our weekly parent newsletter, but I need to get you the important info first...and often times that takes up a full page!  So, this tool will allow me to share some of the funny things our KinderFriends say, observations about projects and lessons we work on, and even updates on things you can work on at home.

Thanks for joining us.  It is going to be a fun and exciting year!

Alive in Christ,

Brenda Wilson