Happy Holidays!

We had a small holiday celebration in our class with hot chocolate (all snuggled in our blankets!), opening gifts and watching a movie (Annabelle's Wish) about generosity. The class gift from Mrs. Volbrecht, Mrs. Phelps and I was a new set of checkers made from real wood and a hand sewn cloth checker board... also pencils, candy canes, and a few books. Our class LOVES checkers and books!

We also made a class book with all the children in it. Everybody loves to read a book...especially when YOU are in it! It is an easy read since the children recognize each others names and faces! We hope they enjoy it.

The Lansing Lions were very generous and gifted all the kindergarten children in Lansing hat and glove sets all wrapped and beautiful! It was so kind of them. We live in a wonderful place!

For a treat we had "monkey bread". The kids all loved pulling it apart and eating it. Of course...with a little help from my very own Vanna White...we graphed who liked it and who didn't!

It was a fun day...which ended with a school wide sing along at the middle school!

I hope you all had a nice holiday!

Seeking forgiveness!

Dear Families...This blog is to beg for forgiveness! I am so sorry that I have not had the time lately to update the blog...things got a little crazy around the holidays. I will do my best to catch you all up to speed... so look back on the blog pages. I will try to do it in order according to our lessons activites and special events over the past month or so!

Pennies for Peace!

Our class had fun counting our pennies that we collected for the "Pennies for Peace" fundraiser! We made piles of tens then put them in groups of tens...we finally estimated cups of pennies by the dollar! We raised approximately 36 dollars for the cause! Good job room 116!

Native American pictographs...fun!

This past week we spent time learning about how Native Americans told stories using pictures. See if your child can retell you the story about the Little Brown Duck Shinnabis? See if your child can retell the Thanksgiving story by using their re-telling beaded bracelet?

We enjoyed using a punch set and some leather to make name plates with pictures...check them out!

We are THANKFUL!

We had a wonderful time at the Thanksgiving Feast! The food was fabulous and the company even better!

Thank you to all those who helped make it possible...parents, cafeteria, janitorial, friends, volunteers and administration!

THANK YOU!

No Bones about it...we loved learning about animal skulls!

We had a great visit from Mr. Benenati. He is a science teacher at another school (and Cascade's dad!) but he came to school to teach us about animal skulls. He has a collection and brought a few to our class to share with us. We became very interested in parts of skeletons a few weeks ago when we explored owl pellets(regurgitated matter) and found the actual bones from mice and other small rodents! It was very cool! Ask us about the skulls that we saw...the picture about shows me holding a (stuffed!) owl and the skull of a Great Horned Owl! Thank you Mr. Benenati!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun day on Halloween. We paraded around the bus circle and enjoyed a little party before heading out for our own celebrations!

(Yes, we adults were a few of the letter people!) If you are interested and would like a closer look at the costumes... we have a book in class that we made from the day called "Boo, Boo, Guess Who?" Check it out!