Tuesday, February 17, 2009

* Kindergarten Valentine's Day

Games... Cards... Friends... Food... Memories!
Click to play * Kindergarten Valentine
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* 100 Days of Kindergarten

We had great fun all week counting to 100 lots of different ways! We made 100 fingerprints, read 100 stories, found 100 numbers, made 100 kisses, made 100 hats, brought 100 things... our teacher gave us 100 dollars! And... we tossed confetti into the air to celebrate our big day!
Click to play * 100 Days of K
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* Valentine Hug Boxes

This is a little video created by our teacher showing how our Valentine Boxes "came to be." I hope you've enjoyed your Valentine Weekend !

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Monday, February 9, 2009

* Black Out

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Click on the blue arrows to look through our Sack LUnch Scrap Book!

Click to play * Sack Lunch
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

* What Will I Be?

We are learning that hard work now will pay off later. We are learning that we want the BIG LIFE... and we have to work for it. We are starting to look at the details and do our PERSONAL best work. We will not settle for anything but the best.

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Alpha Friends ABC

We are super smart! Of course we KNOW our ABC's and our Sounds. Now we are doing a lot of practice using the letters to read and write. Today we made a Smile Box Video. We are learning to use technology! Thanks for looking in on our classroom today. We love learning!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

* Segmenting Words: Word Work!


We do Word Work every day! Here we are using our Segmenting Mats. This is how we use the mats to learn to read and write:
(LOL... These are the words as they were told to me by the children!)
1. Get a mat-- it doesn't matter which one because they are all the same!
2. Get a "rasable" marker... we can pick our favorite color!
3. Get a CLEAN tissue - to erase the marker
4. Get some 2-color chips... mostly we need 3!
5. Choose a picture card.
6. Say the picture word very slowly (like a turtle) so you can hear the letter sounds but don't talk too loud cause other people's heads can't think.
7. Put a color chip on the mat. For each letter sound you hear. If you don't put the chip on then our teacher will remind you because this is VERY important!
8. Take your marker and put it in your hand. And take the lid off. And put it on the bottom so you won't lose it. And don't write on yourself.

9. Write a letter for the first chip because that's what you do.
10. Keep writing the sounds you hear until you have a letter that goes under each by chip. You have to keep making the sound so you won't forget what you are doing.
11. And now you look at the marker letters on the mat that you made and you read the sounds. And see if the sounds made the word you wanted.
12.If you made a word you did good. Then you give yourself a cheer because you did a good job.
13. And this is important... use a clean tissue to wipe off the word so you can write a new word. You can't use the same tissue that your nose used.
14. Keep writing and "rasing" and
picking picture cards until the teacher says it is time to clean up.
15. Everyone better clean up because it's rude if you don't.
16. Then stand by your chair and wait until your teacher tells you to go to the next center.
We are good at writing words! It takes a lot of "segmenting!" Try it next time you have to spell a word.
That's good advice from us kids!