Spare Change Collection

Thank you to everyone who sent in spare change! We raised a total of $167.70!! A local less fortunate family is very thankful for all of our help in providing holiday presents for their children!


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Birthday's at School

     If your family celebrates birthdays and you would like to do something special to celebrate their birthday at school we have had families donate a copy of their childs favorite book to the class and I read it for their birthday or if you would like to send in a snack for your childs birthday it has to be from the "Approved Foods List " this list is quite long. I've gone through it and there aren't a lot of foods that I have heard of- I'm assuming that they must be sold in different parts of the country. I made a shorter list of the foods that I know of that are on the John Stalker Institute that can be found here. If you send in a snack/drink that needs to be eaten with a utensil/cup/plate please make sure to send those in as well.

Listen to Stories Online!

Have you checked out our Reading/Literacy page yet? It has lots of great resources and links to websites that will read stories to your child!

We had so much fun using iPads!

First we went over the rules for when we use iPads...

Then we learned how to take pictures and also how to project them up onto the screen...

We loved showing off our pictures that we made using the "Drawing Pad" app...

Then we learned how to put the iPads back in the charging cart. We have to match up the number on the homes teen of the iPad to the number on the slot in the cart.

Graphics Practice: Level 1- Graphic 1 & 2

Don't forget to check out our "Graphics Practice" videos on our class YouTube channel. You can practice all of the graphics that we have learned in class, at home! We have currently learned all of the graphics in level 1 and level 2. Once we complete the next level I will post the video here on the blog!

Excavating Dinosaur Fossils!

The Museum of Science came in on Monday to teach us about fossils and dinosaurs. This went perfectly with what we are learning about because we just started the first Magic Tree House book "Dinosaurs Before Dark".

We got to demonstrate how many layers of dirt and sand have to get packed on top of something for it to eventually turn into a fossil. 

We loved getting to see real fossils! Pictured above is a cast of a dinosaur egg.

We all got to demonstrate how we thought a certain dinosaur must have walked just by looking at their footprints! We learned how paleontologists can tell what a dinosaur ate (meat or plants) just by looking at their footprints (based on how many toes they have), how they were traveling (running or walking) and what direction they were going all by looking at just a footprint!

Then we got to practice excavating fossils in a dig site with brushes and goggles. Paleontologist Mike explained to us that even if one person is the first one to discover a fossil all of the paleontologists at that dig site are credited for the find because they are working together as a team.

Forms to fill out and send back to school!

In case anyone did not get or may have lost some of the mail that was in your childs mailbox here are all of the forms/permission slips that I have created and will need you to fill out and send back to school next week. The "parent packet" lists all of the information about drop off/pick-up, lunch, birthday's, etc.
Class Blog Permission Slip
Class Schedule
CORI form- Must be filled out and submitted to the office secretary with a copy of your drivers license for EVERYONE who is going to volunteer in the school, whether it is for a field trip or even just to be a mystery reader or help out in the classroom.

Parent Packet-Everything you need to know about drop-off, pick-up, lunch, birthdays, routines, etc.
Scholastic Book Order
Class Twitter Account Permission Slips

Forms to fill out and send back to school!

In case anyone did not get or may have lost some of the mail that was in your childs mailbox here are all of the forms/permission slips that I have created and will need you to fill out and send back to school next week. The "parent packet" lists all of the information about drop off/pick-up, lunch, birthday's, etc.
Class Blog Permission Slip
Class Schedule
CORI form- Must be filled out and submitted to the office secretary with a copy of your drivers license for EVERYONE who is going to volunteer in the school, whether it is for a field trip or even just to be a mystery reader or help out in the classroom.
Parent Packet-Everything you need to know about drop-off, pick-up, lunch, birthdays, routines, etc.
Scholastic Book Order
Class Twitter Account Permission Slip

Remind 101

I have signed our class up for a Remind101 account, this is a website that will allow me to send out SMS messages to parents who sign up with their cell phone number, it keeps your number and my number anonymous and will be a great fast way for me to communicate with parents of any announcements. If you are interested here is how to sign up: Remind101

Great to meet everyone!

It was great meeting everyone yesterday at the kindergarten visitation! I think we are going to have a great year ahead of us with lots of new friends and lots of fun! I can't wait for our first "official" day on Monday! I got a brand new pet fish for our classroom so start thinking of a good name for him, we will take a vote on Monday to see what it will be! Stay Tuned!!

Kindergarten Countdown

To help celebrate the countdown to kindergarten here is a fun calendar of things you could do with your child to help get ready for kindergarten!

Kindergarten Countdown Calendar

Welcome to kindergarten!

Welcome to kindergarten Adam, Addison, Claire, Eleanor, Ella G., Ella S., Finley, Gaby, Gavin, Joshua, Liam, Lily, Lucy, Luke, Milly, Nora, Rhea, Sophia, Susannah, Taite, Tristan, Yuto and Zachary I hope everyone is having a great summer and I can't wait to meet you on Tuesday, September 2nd! If anyone lost their paper with their visitation time for the 2nd or their screening time for the 3rd please email me and I can let you know what time slot your child is scheduled to come in for.

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Miss Flynn got married!!

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a great summer vacation! I know a few people had asked that I share some pictures from the wedding so here are some of my favorites! Thank you to those of you who came to celebrate with us, I loved seeing you guys on my special day!! :o)

Walking down the aisle as the new Mr. & Mrs.!!

One of my favorites that the photographer took!

May 5- June 6 BREAKING NEWS!

Here is what we've been up to the last couple weeks...

April 28-May 2 Breaking News!

Our weekly newsletter is now going to be in the form of a short video! Please check out our
"Breaking News" video from this week right here on our blog or you can also go to our YouTube channel to watch it as well!

Ocean Bulletin Board

This week we started reading the 9th Magic Tree House book "Dolphins at Daybreak". I found two cute activities on other teachers blogs Shenanigan's in Second and Mrs. Tucker and kind of combined them into my own bulletin board idea...it came out really cute and the kids got a big kick out of it!

Exploring with Magnets

Today with our 5th grade buddies we got to explore with Magnets! We will be doing more experiments and activities with Magnets in the next few weeks. Ask your child what they noticed and learned today about magnets.

Earth, Moon & Sun Song

We learned a new song today called the "Earth, Moon & Sun Song" it is sung to the tune of Farmer and the Dell. It goes, "The earth turns around, the earth turns around. Once a day, every day, the earth turns around. The moon goes 'round the earth, the moon goes 'round the earth. Once a month, every month, the moon goes 'round the earth. The earth goes 'round the sun, the earth goes 'round the sun. Once a year, every year, the earth goes 'round the sun." Thank you to My Montessori Journey for the cute idea! See us singing it in action:

Mars Art Project

Today we did a cool "Fun Friday Art Project" where we got to squish paint around underneath some cellophane to make Mars or the Sun! they came out so pretty! We hung them up on the bulletin board out in the hallway for everyone to see. Thanks to Charlotte's mom for volunteering to help us out with the project today!! Thank you Mrs Karen for the great idea!!

 Don't they look so cool?

Miss Mary Mack

We learned a new attention focusing game today. This is a partner clapping game called "Miss Mary Mack" here is the video to learn how to practice at home! See if you can play it with your child!

Silly McGilly!

We had a very special visitor today...Silly McGilly! Silly McGilly is a cute little leprechaun that visits our classroom and plays tricks on us! We read the story today and put the doll by the window so that the REAL Silly McGilly would see it and know that we want him to come play tricks on us. You can get your own Silly McGilly for home here (It's pretty similar to the "Elf on the Shelf")

Silly McGilly changed all of our names so that they started with "O'" or "Mc"...

Then he filled up all of our sinks with green water!!

We were VERY excited to see all of the silly things that Silly McGilly did today! We can't wait to see what he has in store for us on Monday!