Week Twenty Four- Valentines, Jack Hartmann, Career Day and ANOTHER New Student!

We have had a SUPER busy week at BSLK! On Monday Ms. Smith's supervisor came to watch us and see what a good job we had done in teaching her all about kindergarten! He has impressed of course! We had our Valentine exchange and party on Tuesday. (I was absent on Tuesday so no pictures of the party). Thursday we had our field trip to see Jack Hartmann. He is the most wonderful children's singer! After the concert he came to Big Spring Lake and visited each classroom! We had an unexpected addition to our classroom on Thursday when we added our new student Alberto! Friday was career day at Big Spring Lake and it was the best career day ever! We are sad to say that Monday will the last day we get to have Ms. Smith because she is moving to first grade. We will miss her so much. She is a great teacher. Here are some pictures of our week.

Our new student Alberto

Ms. Smith and the kiddos waiting for Jack to begin.

Watching Jack sing.

Jack Hartmann in concert!

Some of the teachers performing on stage with Jack. ( Mrs. Ables is third from the left! )

Singing along with Jack!

Moving along with the songs!

Jack Hartmann in our classroom. (There are more kiddos in this picture but I cut their heads off) I will try to get a better picture of our class with him posted later.

Future Firefighters!

Construction Workers.

Paramedics

Chef Hunter at work!

Medical Staff.

Doctors  in action!

Dr. Sherlin is ready!

Hard at work preparing something yummy to eat!

Firefighter Caden

Deion is ready to deliver the mail!

Working at the bank.

State Trooper Will!

This was a Nurse who spoke to us about careers.

Policeman is a career we all love!

Standing by the police car. We had a chance to sit in the back. We promised Mrs. Ables that this would be the only tjme we were ever in the back of a police car!

Assistant D.A. Mr. Floyd spoke.

Nitro's partner

K9 policeman Nitro

Nitro meeting the kiddos.

This is a brave policeman dressed as a bad guy!

Nitro in action!

Getting ready to attack!

Being models for the photographer!

Looking pretty for the photographer!

The mail jeep!

 

Week 23- Fairy Tales and a new student!

We had a great time this week learning about Fairy Tales! We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, The Three Pigs, Rapunzel, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Writing facts about the Little Red Hen

The boys had "monster" nails to use to practice reading at the teacher table this week. These are the "princess" nails with a little bit of decoration from a green and a silver marker. They loved them. The boys didn't want to have girly stuff!

A close up picture of our new "princess" fingernails. We wear these to help us read.

Using our "princess" fingers to read!

painting the little red hen

We had another surprise this week. We added another new student! This the third new student since Thanksgiving and the second one in two weeks! She is such a sweetie!

                                                                 Our New Student Sierra

A look at next week

Next week we will be learning about the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Check out the link below to see some of our center activities. I am so excited I wanted to share!
Who has been sitting in my chair?
Who has been sleeping in my bed?
Serving up middle sounds with Goldilocks

Week 22-We have a new student!

This week our student teacher Ms. Smith has been teaching the class all day. She has taught about weather and we have had a great time with her!  I have been working on completing mid year assessments and math chapter tests. I am pleased with the progress all of the children have made since the beginning of the year! I did not get many pictures made as I tried to stay out of the classroom while she was teaching. We were all surprised this week when we got a new student.  He is a sweetie!

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Week Twenty One- Magnets, States of Matter, Chinese New Year and 100th Day!

We have had a very busy week learning at Big Spring Lake! We also had great news about our DIBELS scores. Our class scored above the 80% classroom goal for ALL sections of the test!! Thanks so much for all your hard work at home to help us get ready for the big day. To celebrate we had a shaving cream party in our room on Wednesday. Most of the kiddos had never done this before so it was a great success! I didn't get any pictures of it because I left my camera at home that day. I did get LOTS of other pictures this week. Check them out below.

We learned that magnets have a north pole and a south pole.

When the matching poles of two magnets come near each other they push each other away. We learned the word for this is repel. The children are wearing colored stickers to represent the poles of a magnet. If they match they push away from each other.

Kaleigha and Deion are showing how like poles push away from each other.

Monday was Chinese New Year. Our local restaurants donated chop sticks and fortune cookies for lunchtime!

Gladis is eating sweet potato fries with chopsticks.

Jeremias likes eating this way!

Eidan seems like he has done this before!

Will is eating a vanilla wafer with his chop sticks.

Hunter and Jordy are using their hands to help the chop sticks!

Jesus is holding on to  the sweet potato fry with his chop sticks and his fingers.

Deion used his chopstick to skewer a vanilla wafer!

Everyone look at Eidan!!

Rebeca, Brissa & Sherlin are not too sure about eating with chop sticks.

Gladis found a way to eat her cookie.

Kaleigha and Anna Beth show us how it is done!

Good Job!

Sabrina and Yesica had a difficult time using chop sticks.

We had a magnet race!

They used the same poles of the magnet to repel the magnets across the floor.

The boys seemed to get the hang of it much easier than the girls.

Hunter was super fast!

Making the magnets move was fun.

This was almost a tie!

Kaleigha had a tough time getting her magnet to move.

Ready to race!

Mrs. Ables got into the action!

Cheering for friends.

One hundred ice cubes in the jar.

Making our 100 items book.

We had ten items on each page.

Helping our friends!

Counting to ten. Ten times!

101 Days of Fun!!