New Student, Hoots, Math Challenge, Certificates & Congratulations

 We welcomed a new student on Tuesday, Ruth Kernisa. Ruth is settling in.  We had a some Hoot card earners. We are in a March Mathness Tournament (like the March Madness basketball tournament, but we solve math puzzles instead of play basketball) in ST Math. All students who are in the 100% club were assigned 1st grade topics so the whole class could participate in this challenge. Every class was assigned a color and we are competing blind to try to win the March Mathness Challenge. We had a strong showing last week. The students completed LOTS of puzzles! The first place prize is a basketball fidget spinners and a class trophy! Lyle joined the 100% club in ST Math. Congratulations Lyle!

Lucky the Leprechaun

Over the past few weeks we did different activities to entice leprechauns to visit our classroom. We made pots of gold for our classroom door and shamrocks for our windows. We learned leprechaun poems and songs. We made a leprechaun drawing on the iPad and then wrote about what the students thought a leprechaun looked like. Students also wrote persuasive messages to tell the leprechaun where they thought a good hiding spot in our classroom for his treasure would be. Lucky the leprechaun did visit our classroom! Lucky must have been impressed by these letters because he left treasure for the students. The kindergartners are also working on a leprechaun book about prepositions on location words (above, under, in, on, beside, left and right). The students all hope that Lucky will be back again next week!

Happy Birthday, Hoots & Congratulations!

 This week we celebrated Rian's birthday a day early. Rian will be 6 tomorrow, March 8th. Rian sent in goody bags for the class to celebrate his birthday. The goody bags are in backpacks today. We had many at home readers who turned in their February charts. We also had a few students earn their next percentage in ST Math and a couple students earned Hoot cards!

Happy Birthday, Hoot of the Week & Congratulations

 We celebrated two birthdays this week. Sophia and Jessica celebrated their birthdays over vacation. Happy 6th birthday to Sophia and Jessica! We also welcomed our 6th and 7th members to the ST Math 100% club. Congratulations to Ansh and Katherine on this achievement. We had the Kindergarten Hoot of the Week! Congratulations to Laura! We also had an at home writer, a Lexia Superstar, an at home reader, and as a class we made it to 80% completion on ST Math. Yea, Room 101!

Sensory Bottles

 

We had a busy week after returning from February vacation. We shared our awesome new sensory bottles that were created at home over vacation. It was nice to hear from the students when they explained the steps that went into making their own sensory bottle. We will keep the bottles in the classroom for a few weeks to enjoy them and then we will send them home.