Graduation Songs

We have been working hard this week practicing our songs for graduation! If you have any free time this weekend you can practice singing our songs at home! The first one is "Bye Bye Pizza Pie"

Here is our second song "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe":

Our third song is "If You're Happy and you Know It"

ABC Countdown to Summer!!

We will be having an ABC Countdown to countdown the last 26 days of school!! Please  check the calendar to see what the letter & theme of the day is!

Please help support the kindergarten playground update!

We currently have a small kindergarten playground with one play structure that has a slide, tunnel and monkey bars and the playground also has two swings. This would be perfect for a small group of children, unfortunately we can have 50+ children out on on playground just between the two kindergarten classes. This means that most children are having to spend their recess waiting for a turn on one of the two swings or waiting for a turn on the monkey bars or slide. We've tried to supplement and buy jump ropes, chalk, skip-its, etc. but those only last so long. I am hoping to get some stationary musical instruments, a large chalk wall, a play house and boardwalk to offer more choices to those eager-to-play kindergartners! I wrote a innovation grant to the AEF (Arlington Education Foundation) in hopes that they will fund part of this project. We are waiting to hear back if they have accepted our grant! The Peirce PTO has so generously donated $3,000 to help get us started. If we do get the AEF grant that will be another $3,000! We are reaching out to the community to help with the rest of the cost. Please consider making a donation and please share the GoFundMe page with all your friends, neighbors, local businesses and family! We are hoping to have phase one and possibly phase two completed by August 2016.

100th Day of School

We had a great 100th day of school! We did lots of activities revolving around the number 100. We counted out 100 pieces of snacks to make a "100th day of school trail mix", we counted our collections of 100 objects that we brought in from home, we made a picture out of the number "100"

One student brought in100 Legos...

 

Another brought in 100 pieces of macaroni...

100 googly eyes...

One student glued 100 pom poms onto a poster and made a picture out of them!

This student turned their number "100" into balloons!

This student turned their "100" into the American flag!

This student turned their "100" into a horse and buggy!

 

This student turned their "100" into a butterfly!

We tried to build something out of 100 cups!

Some 100 year old lady came to visit us!

We all had a fun time walking through the "100 banner"!

Mystery Reader

We had a special guest "mystery reader" come and visit last week! It was Mr. Lloyd! He read us the story "Silly McGilly" which was about a mischievous little leprechaun named Silly McGilly who likes to play tricks!

We love having mystery readers come visit us! If anyone has a relative that lives far away we could do a Skype mystery reader if they are interested! You can sign up on our class volunteerspot.com page

Greater Alligator!

We have been learning about the concept of more and less. When comparing two numbers we talk about which number is more and which number is less and how much more/less it is then the other number. This is a great skill to practice at home too with a deck of cards or simply by just having two people pick a number up to 10 then when your child gets comfortable with knowing which number is more or less within 10 you can move up to numbers up to 20! Here we are playing with the "greater alligator" we learned that the open alligators mouth always wants to eat the bigger number. For example: 2 < 4

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Tasting Mangos!

We all got to taste a mango today! The mango fruit played an important role in the "Afternoon in the Amazon" book that we finished today. Jack and Annie had to find a mango in the rainforest in order to help Morgan Le Fay!






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