Temporarily closed until further notice...

Dear Families:
I have appreciated your support and enjoyed posting the absolutely adorable activities and moments in kindergarten that make one's heart sing...
With the times as they are I am not going to be posting to our web page until a policy/site is more firmly in place from which to post.
Have a nice day...and live your life like a kindergartner...with joy and innocence!
Sincerely, Carol Engels

OOOPs!

OOOPs apparently TUESDAY is Pinwheels for peace day in honor of  International Peace Day not Friday like I wrote in my Friday News! Sorry...it's an NBD I hope! Have a nice weekend!

for more info go to  http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/pinwheelsforpeace/home.html

Summer Reading Party and new Reading Challenge

The R. C. Buckley Elementary school celebrated the culmination of the summer reading program with rewards and an ice cream party...at the party they were given another challenge...to read 2 million minutes by June!
If the school reads 2 million minutes there will be a June carnival where kids will be given an opportunity to "dunk" a teacher or the principal in a dunking booth and various other carnival games- but I believe the dunking is the highlight!
On your mark...get set...start reading!

Kindergarten celebrates Constitution Day!

The Kindergarten classes at R.C.Buckley  made their own "Play Ground Constitution" today. We celebrated constitution day by gathering in the cafeteria to create our own rules, laws and ultimately promises for the playground.  It was adorable to see the children raise their right hands and "promise" to follow the rules! They will be posted at the Open House on Wednesday. Hopefully it works! :-)

Constitution day is Friday and Ice Cream reading party!

Yes, I sent home a note telling about the events this week but realized after the fact that they changed "ice cream Friday" due to the reading celebration. Ice cream Friday will now be Thursday this week. We don't want to miss out on ice cream :-)

Constitution Day will be a little celebration that we hope to tie into the development of our own classroom "rules" and laws to live by in kindergarten. Please dress your child in red, white and blue or any patriotic color you might have. Thanks!

Welcome to a brand new blog for a brand NEW year!

Yes, we have started the year off with a bang and are excited to have a bucket filling year! We have used "Courtesy Kids" in the past and the heart chart and the Courtesy kid graph but this year we added an important new book to our classroom. Have You Filled a Bucket Today, written by Carol McCloud and Illustrated by David Messing, is an important new book in our class. The Second Steps program uses harts in a jar but we will be using the "heart chart' or courtesy kid graph to catch kids doing acts of kindness and following directions. It's contagious!

Because of the nature of the blog I will update and post events in the classroom as well as pictures of the class as I am able. Children whose parents have signed releases will be included. I never use children's names on the blog and it will all be exciting, tasteful and FUNNY kindergarten material! Yes out of the mouths of babes...and it will be here...it's not quite the same in the re-telling but still very funny things that kindergarten children say :-) so stay tuned!

Yes...I did ask for pantyhose!

Yes...if your child came home today asking if they could have your pantyhose...they are telling you the truth!

Today in class I explained that my families alpaca farm is sending fiber from our alpacas to help in the gulf oil spill. I figured as long as I am sending fiber I might was well send pantyhose too! This is where you come in...we need help collecting panthose:-) The overall response was..."yeah, my Grandma wears them"! Nice :-) Out of the mnoths of Babes!

We watched a video of how the "Booms" of hair are absorbing the oil. It is incredible. Our class made signs and placed donation boxes at the entrance to school and to our classroom. Unfortunately the copied note didn't make it in the backpacks before dismissal.

We will be collecting them and putting them in the boxes of fiber we are sending to the gulf so that the volunteers can continue to make the "booms"to contain and collect the oil.

Thank you! We will keep you posted.