* 4th Grade Learning Buddies

Here we are with our 4th Grade Learning Buddies. We gather together every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:30-10:45. We work together to learn many things. We do all kinds of learning in math, reading, and art. We make projects together too! One of our favorite part of the day is when we have buddies. We also really like it when we see our buddies at recess, lunch, at an assembly, in the hallway, or anyplace at school or in the neighborhood. Before our buddies leave our class each day, we thank them for helping us learn to read and write.

* Positive Email Thoughts from Parents

Just trying to keep my bubbles in the air!

Hey'all... I just wanted a place on my blog to keep the positive email's that come from my teaching parents! Some days I need to remind myself that some homes are grateful for the time a teacher gives to their student.

I will add to this blog each time I get a "nibble."

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September 8, 2008

Mrs. Probert,

"I hope that this note finds you well. I know that school has just started & you are very busy, but I need to thank you!! We had to transfer Kylie over to Lakeview in Roy because of our move!! We finally found a house, unfortunately Dave isn’t here to share in the joys of buying it. Kylie is doing well in her new school & seems to be adjusting to the new environment. I feel like you are a huge part of the reason she is doing so well. You are an amazing woman & an amazing teacher!! You have given Kylie the tools necessary to succeed and for that I have to thank you!! You have touched our lives and given our precious daughter a wonderful gift, the gift of love for school & a yearning to learn. Thank you for everything you have done!!!

Please continue to be the person & the great teacher you are & I know that many more children will be touched as well!!"
Thank You,
Heather A

I REPLIED WITH MUCH THANKS TO KYLIE AND HER FAMILY!!!

11/21/08

Jackie,

Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate all that you do. You are wonderful with the kids as well as great with all of your working team . . . and you even put up with me! thanks for all that you do.

Paul

Feb.21,2009

... By the way, if no one has mentioned lately, you are a wonderful teacher and Rock is so blessed to have you this year! Take care!
Jessica D

Feb. 21, 2009 Hello Mrs Probert
The missing camera is not in Elijah's backpack.. I really really hope you find it or that it gets tuned back in that would be just wrong if someone keeps it.
It will be sad if you don't find it because I really like the blog with the pictures that you post on there I love seeing my bear bear ( Elijah)

Renee B

Feb. 27, 2009

I Am thankful for the Blog REALLY it's like I got my Private window to the School and I get to see what is going on there.. Renee Butcher

March 23, 2009

I am so blessed to have you as Wendell's teacher. You are relentless in making sure the kids are educated and love to learn as well as well mannered. You are a blessing and Wendell is going to stay with you until he graduates...12th grade. I have shared your blog with his Grannies, Aunties and Dad and they feel they are part of his classroom.

Thank you Mrs. Probert.

Donna M

April 2009

I hope your having A nice spring break, we sure are... Elijah sure loves looking over the blog over the break.. He really loves the blog.. ( so do I) We also wanted to wish you A very happy Easter hope you and your Family have A great one.. I also wanted to ask you if you can request students in your class? My Daughter will not be in K next year but the year after that cause of her Birthday, Anyway if we are here I really want her to have you because she is A lot like Elijah and I feel she would do well in your class, plus I like the blog and she is my last baby and if I get to see up close into the classroom that is A plus for me.. so her school year will be 2010-2011 If you could request her that would be awesome.. Anyway take care and enjoy your last few days of break.. P.S Elijah can't wait to get back to School!!!! That means your A great teacher and he loves ya.. ;)

Renee B

April 16, 2009

It is so nice that you have this blog so not only can the kids recap the events at school, but us as parents can look and see what's been happening at school. It makes me smile from ear to ear when I go to your blog to check out Abby's school days.....THANKS A BUNCH!

Molly G

* Meet Us

We are 5 and 6 years old and we are in Kindergarten! Our Kindergarten Year is 2008-2009. Our school has 4 full day kindergarten classes. Today there are 24 kids in our class. We have 8 girls and 16 boys. We have one teacher, one Tutor, and one University Volunteer. Our class size is always changing because our families "are on the go." It is hard to have our friends move away, but we know we will always be friends. And... we know new friends will move in soon. Sometimes our class size can be as many as 28 or 29. This photo was taken in our school yard. We hope you enjoy learning more about us on our blog. We would like to hear from you if you are a kindergarten. How many kids are in your class? How many girls? How many boys?

Ordinal Numbers Online Game

http://www.primarygames.com/squigly/start.htm

*Ways of Learning the Alphabet

Ways of Learning the Alphabet

The name of the letter

Show your child a letter card and ask him/her to tell you the name of the letter.

The way the letter looks

Talk about the shape of the letter.

What is the composition of the letter . . . circles, sticks, tails, etc.?

The sound the letter makes

Show your child a letter card and ask him/her to make the sound that the letter produces.

Remember that each vowel makes two sounds.

The feel and look of the letter in our mouths (look in a mirror)

Focus on the pronunciation of the letter and the production of the sound. Where is the tongue, and what is it doing? Where are your teeth? (It helps to look in a mirror for this exercise.)

I purchased a round makeup mirror with a stand at the local drugstore for this purpose. It was easy for children to handle, easy to store and the magnified side is great.

The movement of the letter as it is written (talk it through in steps)T

alk through the method of producing the letter in printed form.

A word or anchor that children associate with the letter
Example: A, a, apple gives children an anchor to use as a memory tool.

The way the letter looks within a word

* August Kindergarten Family Picnic

We were so excited when the we each found an invitation in our mailbox --- We were invited to a Kindergarten Family Picnic! Our family was invited too!

We met our teacher and played games with the friends who would be in our class. The activities we did were:

1. Hoola Hoops

2. Bean Bag Toss

3. Basket Ball Hoops

4. Parachute

After the activities we had a picnic in the park. This is what we ate:

Hotdogs

Chips

Cookies

Orange Drink

IT WAS A GREAT DAY!

All I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

Reprinted from the Kansas City Times,

September 17, 1986
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.

Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't your's.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life.

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really know how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then, remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.

Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with the our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.