FUNdations!

Room 101 is in for a great year!

We were introduced to the Fundations literacy program today.  We met Echo and Baby Echo.  During our morning greeting on Wednesday we hope to pass Baby Echo around.  Be sure to ask your child about pencil arms vs. spaghetti arms and the various lines (sky line, plane line, grass line and worm line).  We will be getting a little exercise in as we make sure we can point to all the appropriate lines!

Our eyes and our pencil arms need to point at the appropriate lines.

Dynamite Day Two!

Wow, we are having a lot of fun!  Day two was Dynomite!  Today we learned a few new songs:  Tooty Ta and the Story of the Three Little Pigs.  They are awesome!  

We did great remembering the names of our classmates and teachers.  On the playground we met even more kindergarteners and teachers from other classrooms.  Pine Glen is Great!

Meeting and Greeting!

We will spend a lot of time meeting and greeting people during our first week of kindergarten.

Here are a few of the people we met today.

Meet Mr. Callahan and Mrs. D'Elia they are the Library and Technology Center  Team!  (LTC).  We visited the LTC after recess today.  Next week we will be able to take a book out to bring home and read!  Be sure to keep up with all the happenings of the LTC by visiting the LTC blog at PineGlenInfo

Ms. Horton, literacy tutor to Pine Glen Kindergarten, will be working in our classroom one morning per week.

Day One!

We remembered to waive goodbye to our parents as we made our way into the building........we did not want you to be sad!

Day one was delightful!  

Students are learning the routines very quickly. Everyone unpacked and settled in like experts.

Each day we have a Meeting in which the children greet each other with a friendly handshake. Everyone seemed very comfortable and joined right in.

The children started a book about colors, a nursery rhyme book and will be making book about themselves. We also made our kissing hands and visors that went home today. 

One of the highlights of the day includes our trip to the playground for recess!  It was great to see classmates playing together, taking turns and giving each other a push on the swings!

Today we introduce the calendar routine and some fun classroom songs! We even got to sing "Happy Birthday"!

Orange Day is tomorrow.  We will learn about Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater, begin our "Getting to Know..." books, and will work on our classroom rules.  Be sure to get plenty of rest.  This first week of school makes everyone(teachers included)very tired.

Thank you to everyone for sharing your beautiful children!  We are looking forward to a wonderful year!

Kindergarten Orientation

It was so nice to see all of you yesterday at orientation.  We are looking forward to a great kindergarten year!  During our tours we took a moment to pose with our school secretary, Julie Gosselin and Principal John Lyons.

Mr. Lyons enjoyed posing with us so much, he also posted a picture on his blog!  Be sure to keep up with all that is happening at Pine Glen by also following Mr. Lyon's blog: pineglenprincipal.blogspot.com

Mrs. Parnell has sent a test email out to each family.  Please be sure to check for the email message and respond to let us know that we have your correct email address.  In addition, there is an attachment in the email message.  Double check the information about your student and send us any corrections so that we may print out a hard copy to have available.  

Remember to send the GREEN communication folder to school every day starting Monday.   Monday is Red day!  If you have red clothes you can wear them to school!

Enjoy the weekend.  Be sure to get some rest.  We will be very busy next week!

Colored Clothing Fun!

September 2013

Dear Room 101 Parents,

We want to let you all know that part of our ELA block will focus on a review of colors.  Mrs. Hoyt and I will try to wear the “color of the day” for the first 10 days of school.  Your child is welcome to wear the “color of the day” too!  Please don’t feel like you need to go buy something. If your child has the colored clothes and if they would like to wear the color that would be great! 

Below please find the dates for the colors.

Monday, September 9^th- RED

Tuesday, September 10^th- ORANGE

Wednesday, September 11^th- YELLOW

Thursday, September 12^th – GREEN

Friday, September 13^th – BLUE

Monday, September 16^th – PURPLE

Tuesday, September 17^th – BLACK

Wednesday, September 18^th – BROWN

Thursday, September 19^th - WHITE

      We’ll see you soon!     - Melissa & Karen

Welcome,welcome welcome!

Welcome, welcome, welcome!  - By now you may have received your letter informing you that you will be in room 101 for kindergarten.  Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. Hoyt are very excited to meet you!  We have a great year of learning ahead.

We are busy at this time of year, getting our classroom and supplies ready.  We hope you have enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to the start of the school year

Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. Hoyt