Family Fun Idea and School Fun

#3- Bake a special dessert together.

We have start our unit on magnets. The children are learning about what magnets are attracted to.
The children will be experimenting with magnets over the next two weeks.
Check out this cool video.



If you are writing with your child at home ask them to write about magnets.


http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/cartoons-tv-movies-kids/i-didnt-know-that-kids/idkt-magnets-kids/

Family Time Idea and School Fun

#3- Bake a special dessert together.

We have start our unit on magnets.  The children are learning about what magnets are attracted to.
The children will be experimenting with magnets over the next two weeks. 
Check out this cool video.
If you are writing with your child at home ask them to write about magnets.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/cartoons-tv-movies-kids/i-didnt-know-that-kids/idkt-magnets-kids/

Read Across America

Please join me in celebrating Dr.Suess' Birthday and help to support The Virgina Beach Education Foundation through purchasing books at Barnes and Noble at Town Center in Virginia Beach from 2-4. All proceeds will go to the VBEF. Parents...shhh...I will be The Cat In The Hat and I will be reading @2:30pm. See you then! I am looking forward to surprising my Rainbow Valley Friends.:)

Family Fun

Family fun idea #2 Take your child on a walk.

Great Families Do Great Things Together

I was reading a great article about creating family time. I found it really helpful. I know as a parent I find myself trying to balance so many plates during the week. I am going to post one family time idea each week that you may like to try.  I will be trying these at my house as well.
Week 1: 5. Write a note listing 5 things you’re proud of about your child.

What's Happening?

Our kindergarten friends love hands-on learning!
We read a great story called How Big Is A Foot?  We discovered from that book that when we measure we must do it very carefully.
The children used non-standard measurement to measure various objects in the room. We talked about how when a person is measuring something the tool and the object must be lined up.

Mrs. Hardesty started a fabulous authors study on Donald Crews.

the children will be hearing stories writen by this amazing author.

Valentine's Day!

Tomorrow is the big day! It's Valentine's Day! The children are really excited.
Please remember to send in your child's valentines without recipents names, a bag or a box for he or she to collect his or her cards.
It is also P.J. day!!!  Your child can wear his or her P.J.s to school.

Our day...

Today was filled with mystery.
Who is that knocking at our door?
Why it's a former Rainbow Valley Friend also the sister of a current Rainbow Valley Friend. Jordan was our mystery reader.
Today we also discovered what makes a shadow.
We began the lesson through sharing what was already in our schema.
Then, we went outside to our adopted tree and observed what was creating the shadow.
To our surprise it was the sun and the tree.
Over the next few weeks we will be exploring shadows.
We are focusing on the meanings of the following terms in relationship to shadows:
sunlight
shadow
block
black
above
position

Place Value

We have been working on understanding tens and ones. 
Here is a fun song to help your child practice this skill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W47G-h7myY

SCIENCE FAIR TIME

I am looking forward to having every one of my kindergarten friends participate in the science fair.  It is a fun time!
The Science Fair will be held on Tuesday, March 19th @ 6:00. 
Student registration forms are due on Friday, March 1st. 
Please look for this form in your child's folder.  Fill it out and send it in.
Visit the library for books on science projects.
We will also be starting Scientist Of The Night soon in our class as preparation for the fair.

100th Day Fun!

Today was such an exciting day. If your kindergartener is tired it's because we exercised, counted, wrote, read, exercised, sang, laughed, exercised and had FUN, FUN, FUN!







Our Kindergarten Family



Singing and dancing!

100th Day

Tomorrow is the 100th Day!! Please send in 100 things.
We will be sharing our items and creating a class book.
I am excited for tomorrow .