Reading Friends are the Best!

We had a great time with our Wescourt Reading Buddies last week!  To celebrate National Young Reader Day, our friends from the retirement village here in town came over on their bus to read to us for a whole hour!  We read to them first, and then they picked some great books to share with our groups.  We are so thankful for the friendships we have made with the residents of Wescourt, and can't wait for our next adventure with them!

 Miss Ellen 

 Mr. Earl

 Miss Melissa brought the friends, and joined in as a reader!

 Even Mrs. Gallegos got in on the fun!

P is for Puppy!!

We wrapped up our busy week with a visit from Max!  Everyone enjoyed playing with him, and letting him explore our room.  He was REALLY well behaved, too, so that was nice to see.  Our daughter Katie is training him to be a therapy dog (to visit hospitals and nursing homes), so this was a great way to acclimate him to a lot of people at one time!

P is for Painting!

We have enjoyed learning about Joseph and his coat of many colors during our Jesus Time.  We decided to explore with paper towel Joseph coats and watercolor paints, and the results were AWESOME!  

We Like to MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!

We had a blast at SVSU for Motor Development Day!!!  Check out our moves!!!

Terrific Tuesday!

T is for turn the jump rope!  Jump!!

T is for twist!  Look at them go!

T is for touchdown!!  

Marvelous Monday!

We are working with the letter Mm this week in Kindergarten!  

Mm is for Math.  Alex did this problem on the board all by himself!!

A New Pack!

Finally!  My computer is back in working order and I AM BACK on the blog!!!

There's nothing better to a Kindergartener than a brand new pack of crayons!  Well, let me tell you, there's nothing better to a Kindergarten teacher than a brand new pack of Kinder Friends!  I couldn't be happier with our mix of boys, girls, personalities, talents, and smiles this year!  A class of twelve friends fills our room, with seven girls and five boys.  This is the first year in a looooong while that I have had fewer boys than girls.  We'll see how that goes!!  LOL

We are working hard on our handwriting so that we can do our pencil and paper work with legibility.  This is a daunting task for some of our friends, as they do not have the necessary strength in their fingers yet.  Any practice at home with writing and cutting will help to strengthen these muscles and tune our fine motor skills.

My plan this year is to let you in on our weekly letter focus, with some great pictures and stories that go along with the letters.  I can't wait to share our fun days with you!  Thanks for reading.  :)