Monday, February 18, 2013
Spring Break
Spring Break will be March 18-22! :) I will be praying for warm temperatures and sunshine!
Shadows Shadows Everywhere!
A new week, with some exciting lessons to come! We have really enjoyed making shadows and seeing shadows EVERYWHERE!
This week we will be learning how to form the letter R and trying to make rainbow shadows. We have already discovered that not all shadows are black.
We are working on our numbers 1-10 this week as well and matching the number to the quantity.
In science, we will be exploring rainbows and shadows.
If you have not handed in your Kindergarten registration to me yet, please bring that to preschool as soon as you can. :) Thanks!
There will be NO SCHOOL on Friday, March 8th, due to professional development. :(
We are seeing a lot of illness in our class the past couple weeks. We all know that no matter what we do to prevent them from spreading, those silly germs find a way. Please help keep our classroom a healthy place to learn by keeping your child home if they are ill. Children need to be fever free, diarrhea free and free from vomiting for at least 24 hours before returning to class.
Thanks for everything!
This week we will be learning how to form the letter R and trying to make rainbow shadows. We have already discovered that not all shadows are black.
We are working on our numbers 1-10 this week as well and matching the number to the quantity.
In science, we will be exploring rainbows and shadows.
If you have not handed in your Kindergarten registration to me yet, please bring that to preschool as soon as you can. :) Thanks!
There will be NO SCHOOL on Friday, March 8th, due to professional development. :(
We are seeing a lot of illness in our class the past couple weeks. We all know that no matter what we do to prevent them from spreading, those silly germs find a way. Please help keep our classroom a healthy place to learn by keeping your child home if they are ill. Children need to be fever free, diarrhea free and free from vomiting for at least 24 hours before returning to class.
Thanks for everything!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
More Shadow and Valentine's Day Party info.!
We are really enjoying learning about shadows. Someone noticed today that if she put a transparent blue ruler on top of a transparent red ruler, the shadow on the wall from the overhead was purple! LOVE the self-teaching that is taking place! While we were outside, we saw lots of shadows, "Ms. Hollie, the slide has a shadow!" "Oh, look Ms. Hollie, when I climb up the rocks, my shadow is "crookedy"! By the way, I love the new word, "crookedy"! :) While we lined up to go inside, I decided to count shadows instead of kiddos, which really made some of us giggle.
Enjoy the pictures from the past couple days.
Valentine's Day party is on Thursday and each student is asked to bring a decorated box with a valentine for each of their classmates. We will have a dance, games, crafts and snacks! So fun!
We have also been doing some patterning with hearts and other fun math activities in our new small groups. Ask your child about their new small group and what we have been working on.
Enjoy the pictures from the past couple days.
Valentine's Day party is on Thursday and each student is asked to bring a decorated box with a valentine for each of their classmates. We will have a dance, games, crafts and snacks! So fun!
We have also been doing some patterning with hearts and other fun math activities in our new small groups. Ask your child about their new small group and what we have been working on.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Shadows!
Why do some shadows have color and some do not? So much fun watching their little brains spin! I LOVE watching them learn on their own. Lots of investigation in our classroom today when the kiddos put a transparent blue ruler down on the overhead and the shadow was blue. All of the students worked together to gather other blue items around the room to see if the shadow would be blue. They tried dark blue, light blue and many other colors, but the shadows were just black. Hmmmmm...
We also had a Pizza Party to celebrate the letter P and did some "Ice Skating" inside because it was too wet to go out today.
I LOVE my job!
We also had a Pizza Party to celebrate the letter P and did some "Ice Skating" inside because it was too wet to go out today.
I LOVE my job!
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Shadows!
We have only had a couple days of our shadow study and the students are blowing my mind with their learning! We started by finding out what they already know and we got things such as, shadows happen at night, I make shadow animals on the wall...by Tuesday afternoon, I recorded them telling me that shadows can move, you need light to make a shadow, a shadow is made from the sun, if the clouds are out, we can't see our shadow, and so much more! WOW! On Tuesday morning we took the students outside and traced their shadows with chalk and then returned 2.5 hours later, stood in the same spot and realized that our shadows were in a different spot. Now, to find out why...I simply LOVE the curiosity!
Enjoy some pictures from the beginning of our study and keep stopping by to see what we are learning! We will be measuring shadows tomorrow and writing in our journal about our shadow outside. :)
Enjoy some pictures from the beginning of our study and keep stopping by to see what we are learning! We will be measuring shadows tomorrow and writing in our journal about our shadow outside. :)
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Fun Times at Ms. Hollie's!
Let the heart making begin! So much glitter and fun to come this month! We are having a blast learning with our friends. No time for worksheets at this preschool! :)
Shadows!
February 4th-9th
Although we did not celebrate Groundhog's Day, I know that many of the students have been hearing about the groundhog and his shadow, so we are going to learn all about shadows for our next study. I am pretty pumped about all the fun things we can do with this study. Please feel free to stop in our classroom to see what we are up to. ;)
We will start the week off by finding out what we know about shadows and then I will begin to plan lessons around what we already know. Hopefully the sun will cooperate with us this week to get us excited about learning. I will update our blog as we go along. We are also busy with mid-year assessments to keep the state of Iowa happy, which is not as fun as shadows. Assessments are due the 15th, so hopefully they will all be sent in and we can celebrate with our Valentine Dance. We will celebrate love on February 14th with a dance and card exchange. A class list will be in your child's folder on Monday. If you are interested in providing a snack, drink, or planning a game or craft for our party/dance please sign up outside our classroom, or send me an email. hollieallen@gmail.com
Peace and happiness,
Ms. Hollie
SNACK SCHEDULE
1- Mason
4- Natalie
5- Nathan
7- Evelyn
8- Shania
11- Curtis
12- Giselle
14- Party
15- Max
18- Rylee
19- Lexi
21- Halle
22- Jersey
25- Graden
26-Braxton
28-Ava
Although we did not celebrate Groundhog's Day, I know that many of the students have been hearing about the groundhog and his shadow, so we are going to learn all about shadows for our next study. I am pretty pumped about all the fun things we can do with this study. Please feel free to stop in our classroom to see what we are up to. ;)
We will start the week off by finding out what we know about shadows and then I will begin to plan lessons around what we already know. Hopefully the sun will cooperate with us this week to get us excited about learning. I will update our blog as we go along. We are also busy with mid-year assessments to keep the state of Iowa happy, which is not as fun as shadows. Assessments are due the 15th, so hopefully they will all be sent in and we can celebrate with our Valentine Dance. We will celebrate love on February 14th with a dance and card exchange. A class list will be in your child's folder on Monday. If you are interested in providing a snack, drink, or planning a game or craft for our party/dance please sign up outside our classroom, or send me an email. hollieallen@gmail.com
Peace and happiness,
Ms. Hollie
SNACK SCHEDULE
1- Mason
4- Natalie
5- Nathan
7- Evelyn
8- Shania
11- Curtis
12- Giselle
14- Party
15- Max
18- Rylee
19- Lexi
21- Halle
22- Jersey
25- Graden
26-Braxton
28-Ava
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