Day 50

We celebrated 50 days of school on Wednesday.   We had a very special guest come in to help us celebrate.  She is Grama Zero.  She brought two special books along about snow.  Did you know that a snowball looks like a zero?  She told us a story about building a snow family with lots of fun stuff.  The author's name is Lois Englert!!  Is she any relation to Blake???

Grama Zero said she can come back on Fridays and read to us and listen to us tell our stories.  That will be so much fun.  That way Mrs. B can listen to us on other days and Grama Zero can hear us read on Fridays!

Did you notice that the kids brought home a couple very easy books from Mr I and Ms S?  I hope they are reading them to you because practicing is sooooo gooooood for us!!

Day 49

I tried to capture today in photos because I saw some amazing learning going on today!!  Everyone was excited about the reptile books and the sheets with many lizards and snakes and turtles and amphibians that they tried to identify in a book with their magnifying glasses and make pictures of for the pond drawing.  Kids were sharing our readable books with each other and talking to me about why they feel like superstars sometimes.  They all loved meeting Ms. S and flying around the room in their supersocks.  We loved making rain in chapel and talking about spreading love around.  Then our little talk about our memory verse (Psalm 23:1-3) where we described feeling safe with Jesus.  And always talking and joking around at snack times shows how much each of your children love to hang out together.  And then there are those random acts of kindness they do for each other, helping each other clean up and stuff like that.  I was so excited to hear each of the children read their easy reader book to me today.  They are all doing so well!  Thank you for letting me share these precious hours with your children!

Day 48

We started our day thinking about the field trip to the Pet Store when we wrote on the board in our Kindergarten News.  When we go to the pet store I want to pet a puppy...a cat...a cute puppy....  We then went back to our day of reading and math.  We finished our clay spiders and spider webs today.  You can see them in the display case next to our classroom.  We practiced writing our everyday words.  Did you know we have twenty of them!!  We use all of them every day on the board during K News time.  They decide which ones go in their sentence and I put them on the board and write their sentence.  Today I asked them to use the four letter words first- like, when, they, make or even the five letter word there.  The only ones that we couldn't start our sentences with were make and like.  I am always amazed at how they keep track of each of these words and how they manage to put them in relevant sentences.  They love t o end their sentences with the new magnet exclamation and question marks!

Thanks to Lori Harrison and Brad Stollman, we were able to make it safely to Pet Station on Telegraph Rd just South of the Fifities MacDonalds.  We petted an older dog at the entrance,  watched turtles in a pond with a waterfall coming down the wall.  We then got to hold a little terrier dog.  The pet store owner told us that the puppies they have in the cages are sold quickly and we were glad to hear that because we wanted to take them all out and play with them.  They looked like they all wanted to go home with us!  We saw alot of different fish in acquarium- little sharks, angel fish, pirahanas, mud sliders,  devil fish with knobs on their red heads.  We found out they all like their own kind of fish food.  We talked to a parrot and saw many parakeets.  They had lots of seeds in their bowls.  We found  some mice and hamsters.  There were baby hamsters in one of the cages!  That was a high point for us as we watched the mommy digging a hole in the wood chips, trying to protect her babies.  Some got pitched out of the hole when she was digging so she picked them up and carried them back with her mouth.  She even seemed to know when she was missing one!  We spent quite awhile watching lizards and snacks.  We had so much fun and were so well behaved!  Mrs.  B was really proud of us.

Day 45

At the end of the day when you hear one of the kids pray "thank you for a great day.  Help us to be kind.  Help us to take care of each other."  you realise that we are working for our children here.  We are witnessing them learn how to act as a Christian community with each other.  We imagined ourselves in a boat with Jesus today in a very scary situation.  The boat was rocking and the rain was pounding and we were raising our hands to reach for Jesus so He could help us.  We were big time sure he would!  That is childlike faith.  So, I hope when the kids say their memory verse that are reaching their hands up being sure that Jesus can help them in their rocky boat.  Jeremiah 17: 7 is due on Friday.

Mr I is helping us learn a little science with our phonics.  Today we talked about the difference between insects and spiders.  When they come to school on Friday, they will try to draw a spider with 8 legs and 2 body parts and an insect with 6 legs and 3 body parts.  Next time I see them will be on Monday because Mr. Brodbeck's father died today and I will be up north at his funeral over the weekend.  Pray for my husband and his family as they say goodbye for now as he is now with his wife in Heaven.  Another life lesson- I am sure He is there with her right now.

We were really busy today measuring inches all over the place.  We had rulers with inches, and inch long paper to glue to our cut paper animals and old fashioned measuring tapes and strings used to measure and paper clips the size of an inch measuring distances on our map.  Our book, The Biggest, the Strongest, the Fastest about animals who set a record told us about the anaconda and how it is 30 feet long so we stretched out along a adding tape that long to see how long that is.  Then we measured out four anacondas and found out that the longest animal in the world is that long.  Do you know what it is?  How about the strongest animal?  The animal that jumps the highest for its size?  Your kids know those answers and I hope have already tried to get you to guess.  

We are going to Pet Station to see animals and find out more about taking care of them next Friday, January 20.  We have a future veterinarian in here somewhere, or at least a dragon tamer.  Of course we all know that dragons are imaginary but they still need our help and our loving attention.

DCSgradeK: Day 42

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Day44

What is the most buttons that will fit in a button line?  Our number notebook assignment this week.  I'll let you know how it goes.  We are learning to problem solve.  Good fun.

DCSgradeK: Day 42

DCSgradeK: Day 42: We were the jingle bells at our DCS Christmas Carolling today! What fun to jingle even when we didn't know all the words. Then we made Ch...