Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!! I hope you all have a wonderful night celebrating. Kindergarten students return to school on January 3, 2012. I can't wait to see you all.

Miss Thompson will return on January 4th. She will be returning from the Rose Bowl and needs a day to travel! GO DUCKS. School will happen as normal on the 3rd. I have a very talented guest teacher coming in who the students already know, Mrs. Bethel.

Fisher Price

Fisher Price has several games on their website. Most of them are aimed at younger children but some Kindergarteners will still enjoy them. Take a look around the site before you invite your child to play the games.

http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=2601&e=gamesByAge&mcat=game_preschool&site=us

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Clifford the Big Red Dog is a big hit in the classroom. The kids like to read the stories. I have a little Clifford stuffed animal that the students like to read to. Continue the learning at home by checking out this site.


http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/

This site has some activities for the kids to do. As always please sit with your child as they explore the internet to make sure that they stay safe.

Merry Christmas!!

Sesame Street

http://pbskids.org/sesame/

This website has games and all sorts of other great things. Check it out for some learning opportunities for your student over the winter break.

-Miss Thompson

Photos

I love it when parents send me photos ... here are just a few more from our trip to the Capital

Cuties by the tree

Could this be a future Governor?

Another option for Governor

There will be some competition for Governor in the future

Another candidate for Governor

Governor?

Governor?

There was a very nice collection of rocks!

Look at the train under the really big tree

Outside

StarFall

If you have never been introduced to StarFall it great learning tool for young kids. I love it! My favorite is the section called "Learn to Read" there are some great stories! It helps the kids sound out the words and then read them the fast way.


http://www.starfall.com/

Check it out!!

Photos

I found a few photos that I had not posted. These are from recess time.

It was super cold but the kids still played outside!!

Look at those climbing skills!

Another climber

The little rocks on the playground froze together!! Very Exciting

Rocks frozen together

Frozen rocks!!

Down the slide!!!

Mini Books

Here are some great mini-book websites. We make mini-books at school and the students love them. These are all winter themed. Print out one or two and let your child read them to you. They are great art projects too. Send them back in Friday Folders so Miss Thompson can see all your hard work.


The Mitten
What Can We Do in the Snow?
5 Little Snowmen
Gingerbread Friend Counting Book
My Gingerbread Man
Brown Reindeer
Night Before Christmas
Christmas Lights
In My Hat -at word family book

There are so many more books out there on the web but I'll stop now!!!!

Handwriting

Here are a couple of websites where you can print out handwriting worksheets. These are great to practice.

Print out a few and do them over the long break. Send them back in Friday Folders so Miss Thompson can see your hard work

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/index-begins-mm.htm

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp12a.htm

Or you can always use this site and make your own http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/dnealian/sentence/index.html 

Number practice

Here are some websites where you can print out some number practice.

1-10 Worksheet
1-3 Worksheet
4-6 Worksheet
7-9 Worksheet

These would be a great thing to do over Winter Break. Print out a few!!! Miss Thompson would love to see them, send them back in Friday Folders!

Winter Break

I have pre-written some blog posts for over the break. I hope that you take a look at the great websites that I will be high lighting over the coming weeks. They are great resources for families!!!

Thanks so much for making sure your child keeps learning over the break!!!

Happy Holidays!!!!

Here are some websites to get you started with some ideas of what to do over winter break.


This mom came up with 101 things to do over winter break!!!

Lost and Found

A hanging rack and a table are currently set up in the Hawthorne entrance.  Please stop by and take a look if your student is missing anything.  We have a pretty big stack every day from locations all over the school.  Any items not claimed will be donated. 

Red and Green Day

Tomorrow is wear red and green day. This is just a fun way to celebrate our last day of school tomorrow. If your child has a green or red shirt, tomorrow would be a great day to wear it. If you have a favorite holiday sweater that can last through Kindergarten wear that! (If it is a nice sweatshirt it might be best if it stays at home, Kindergarten can be rough on clothes)

I can't wait to see all your red and green tomorrow!!!

So many pictures of your cute children!

Eating a snack listening to music

Cool art work

on the front steps

Biggest Tree ever!!!

Looking at some of the little trees

The carpet on the Senate side

In front of the Capitol ... look at all that marble

In the Governor's office

Another group found the golden man

Or maybe this guy?

The next Governor?

More art

Even more photos....

Groups of kids

Trees

Trees on the floor of the House

The House side

Another photo of the House side

Looking down into the Rotunda

Up into the top of the Rotunda

Outside, front doors

Front doors