Ms. Franklin

For the past few weeks, we've had an intern from the University of Montevallo. She's been helping our class, teaching us new things and showing us new educational games to play. She created us a literacy center. It had fun games and books to read. We miss her and were sad to see her go. Here is a picture of all of us on the last day she was there.

Dr. Seuss Celebration!

On Friday, March 2nd, we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday. We read so many books, Miss Johnson was rhyming everything she said!

We had so many visitors come to read to us. Some of our visitors even brough us surprises!

When Ms. Martin came, she read "Fox in Socks."

We all got to wear "crazy" socks in the room.

Mrs. Pierson read "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,"

and she brought us all a Dr. Seuss pencil!

Our special guest was Mrs. Boles! She even came in her Dr. Seuss hat! She read us "Cat in the Hat." She brought us all hat-shaped cookies. They were so delicious!

We also had surprise visits from Mrs. Cargile, 2nd graders, and Mrs. Jones (Dylan's grandmother).

Miss Johnson's favorite Dr. Seuss book is "Green Eggs and Ham." She and Mrs. Pierson actually made us green eggs and ham. Green eggs are very, very weird. When Miss Johnson read "Green Eggs and Ham" to us, we made up our own Sam-I-ams.

"I would eat green eggs and ham with Cat in the Hat."

- Matthew-I-Am

"I would eat green eggs and ham in the forrest."

- Jacob-I-am

"I would eat green eggs and ham on a boat."

- Tristyn-I-am

We had so much fun! We really love reading Dr. Seuss books.

A BIG

THANK YOU!

to everyone who made our Read Across America Day special!

Miss Johnson’s class is full of beautiful smiles…especially this week!

This week we are learning about dental health. We’ve spent the week talking about how to care for our teeth. We discussed brushing and flossing our teeth, going to the dentist, what teeth look like and things that are good and bad for your teeth.



Here are some tips we came up with for taking care of your teeth:



Jessica realized that she didn't take care of her teeth as much as she should, but after learning about teeth this week she's going to try to do better.





Alexis says you should ALWAYS brush your teeth. No matter what.

100th Day of School

Last week, we celebrated the 100th day of school. This is a fun day where we do various math activities. It's always a lot of fun...our class really enjoyed it. We started the day by making a 100th day of school hat. The students had to count by 10's to make their hat.

Next in the day, we counted groups of objects that made up 100 pictures. Each student brought 100 of something to school. We had some very interesting things to count. Using a number chart, each student counted to make sure that they brought 100 of something. We had everything from pennies to smiley gum balls. We grouped these items and counted them in different ways.

At the end of the day, the entire kindergarten went outside to the blacktop. All three teachers had huge garbage bags in their hands. They wanted to show the students what 100 balloons looked like. So, the teachers opened their bags and let all of the balloons go free. Each student was allowed to pop 1 balloon. Then after everyone had gotten to pop a balloon, the rest of the balloons were free to whoever could catch them. The students seemed to really enjoy watching those balloons fly everywhere and then getting to pop them.

Tacky the Penguin

This week, we read the book Tacky the Penguin. In this book, Tacky is a very odd penguin. He does everything differently than his other penguin friends. Tacky is very boisterous and clumsy. Due to Tacky’s differences, he was able to save his penguin friends from a group of hunters. The class discussed how differences make us special and give us all our own individual talents and abilities.

The children really loved Tacky. They found his odd clothes and behavior to be very funny. After reading the story, we decided to make our own penguin with his/her own personality. The children had to give their penguin a name, tell where it lives, what it likes to eat, what it likes to play, and what it likes to do. The children really loved this activity, and they had some great names and ideas.

Here are just a few:

Cameron's penguin is named Gilbert. Gilbert lives in an igloo.

Gilbert's favorite food is macaroni.

Gilbert likes to play football with Cameron.

Jay's penguin is named Harvey. Harvey lives at the North Pole and

loves to eat fish. Harvey likes to play football and enjoys swimming.

Rudolph is the name of Keelan's penguin. Rudolph lives in an igloo.

Rudolph's favorite food is fish. He likes to play football and bake

cookies with his friends.

Tristyn's penguin is named Honey Sims. Honey Sims lives at the North Pole.

She likes to eat fish and corn. She likes to play hide and seek, swim and slide.

New Year's Resolution

I have always enjoyed celebrating New Years Day! It is a time for new beginnings and new promises. It's a time to start fresh and dream of what the new year may hold. Today, our class discussed why we celebrate New Years Day. We also learned a new word...resolution. We discussed that a resolution was a promise to do or keep from doing something. After discussing the term resolution, we began to think of things that we could resolve to do in 2007. I shared with the class that my resolution was to save more money so that I could buy the nicer things that I really want. As the class began to share their own ideas, we decided to write them down to share on our blog.

Here are a few really good resolutions for 2007:

Alexis told us that, this year, she would like to learn to tie her shoes.









Jay promises that this year he will try to help his mom and dad around the house.

Tristyn also made a resolution to help more around the house. She wants to help her aunt do the dishes.

Jacob is planning on working extra hard this year to achieve his goal for 2007! He wants to save money so that he can buy himself a house one day. I guess it's never too early to start!

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We are so excited about starting our blog. Very soon you will be able to see all of the interesting things we are learning in Kindergarten.