An Amazing Year!

As I sit here and enter the last blog entry of the year I am smiling and crying.  This year has been truly amazing for so many reasons.  My Kindergarten Friends have grown to be outstanding citizens.  They love and care for one another and most importantly they have developed an amazing love of learning! 
My friends reminded me today that over the summer, "You better read for 20 minutes a day and write it on your reading log." Now this is why I LOVE KINDERGARTEN!
Thank you all for supporting me, Mrs. Stinard, and your children.  It has been an honor to be their teacher.
Also thank you for all of the amazing gifts and cards that you have given to us the last two days.  We love everything and appreciate your generosity.

Some information: For the morning class, we were having so much fun that we forgot to pass out pencil boxes.  If you would like to pick up your child's pencil box they will be in the office until Monday.

My blog will be running through the summer, and I will post when Baby Chiaverotti arrives. :)

Thanks again for an amazing year of learning!
Mrs. Chiaverotti

Hatching

They've Hatched!

The butterflies, not Mrs. Chaiverotti~ Ha~ ha~
This morning we arrived at school to find that two butterflies had hatched. While the morning class was observing the butterflies they observed one actually hatch right in front of their eyes!

Last Week Of School and Field Day

Mrs. Kimpan so kindly shared some of her Field Day picutres with us.
We have also enjoyed visiting Mrs. Jenkin's Room this week to learn about Flag Day and the afternoon class enjoyed creating their final drafts of their poems.

Summer Reading

As this wonderful and amazing school year comes to a close I want to remind all of our Rainbow Valley readers and their families that there are several public library locations in Virginia Beach. These are a GREAT resource for summer reading.  Please visit them. 
Did you know that a child needs to read at least five books over the summer to maintain what he or she has learned during the school year?  If they don't this can put them behind in September by 2-3 months. Can you afford for this to happen?
John B. Dey encourages summer reading.  Your child can participate in the JBD summer reading program.  If you are not sure how, let me know.

Here are some great sites to keep the spark of reading ignited for our kids and to help to inform you about summer reading. 


http://www.scholastic.com/summer/

http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/summer

http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/sumreading/main.html

Magnificant Monday

It is so hard to believe that today was our last Monday. 
The morning and afternoon classes both continued their work on creating poetry images using their senses. 
We also enjoyed a few new fun things to do during Daily Five.  Puppets, Legos, arts and crafts to name a few.


Poetry Images



Illustrated images



Puppet Play



Look who's enjoying arts and crafts!



Creating



Field Day Fun!

"Today was a blast!"  "Mrs. Chiaverotti I loved today!"  "I loved the snacks!"
These words are from our kindergarten friends. 
Thank you to all of the parent volunteers, parents who sent in supplies, and all of our parent and grandparent cheerleaders.  You made today a special one for each of our Rainbow Valley Friends.  
Thank you!

Poetry Images and An Old Friend

Today the afternoon class started working on creating poetry images.  Boy, was this fun!
They painted pictures with words. 
We also had a former Rainbow Valley student as a Mystery Reader in the afternoon class.

Field Day

This year our class will wear the color green for Field Day. 
Please make sure you apply sunscreen on our child.
They are welcome to wear hats.
We will make sure that they are well hydrated. :)

Practice Penmanship

Here are some good sites for the kids to practice their penmanship over the summer.
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http://www.first-school.ws/theme/handwriting.htm

Penny, penny

Today the morning class enjoyed their penny science lab. They enjoyed estimating, sorting, graphing, charting, measuring, and discussing a hypothesis.
Ask your child to tell you about it.
Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped out today in our lab. You made learning fun!

Father and daughter team

How many drops will fit on that penny?

Measuring area and perimeter

Graphing born on penny dates



Investgating how to clean a penny



Estimating with Mr. Herrick

Sorting

Having fun learning with Mom!

Evan's Uncle helped us too!




 

Friday Fun Day!

I was very surprised today when my morning class friends had surprise baby shower for me today.  Thank you to everyone for making my day so special.
Today our kindergarten friends enjoyed learning more about inferring and practiced inferring using a great story called That New Animal.

Hand-made by Rainbow Valley Morning Class

June Fun~

We have been enjoying learning about making comparisons, life cycles.  Boy! Our butterflies are growing!  Mrs. Law has taught us so much about strategy when playing games. This was a great opportunity to pracitce taking turns.   The fun games are coming home for you to play with your child. 

Science Lab Volunteers

We are having our last science lab on Thursday, June 9th from 1:30-2:30. (Afternoon class)
We need three more volunteers in order to make it happen. Please E-mail me if you can commit to helping make learning fun.
Thanks!

Show Your School Spirit

Get Ready for JBD's Annual Book Swap!

John B. Dey’s Annual Book Swap

Help us to gear up for the 2011
JBD Summer Reading Club


COME ALONG AND JOIN THE FUN

Starting June 1st, all students are encouraged to bring in their gently used books.

For every TWO books brought in the student will be able to choose ONE book to take home.

Bring all the books you can!

TAKE the books to your classroom between June 1st and 6th


Swap Dates:

Pick Out books: Wednesday June 8th

John B Dey is supporting the Reach Out and Read program at CHKD by donating all of the extra books.