Saturday, August 28, 2010

First Week of School

I'm super excited about this class and proud of how smoothly the first week of school went! Thank you parents for waiting patiently at dismissal so I could dismiss the students one at a time.

We have started learning our procedures and routines in our classroom. We learned about PAW Pride and how we are to act in the cafeteria, hallways, restrooms, and at recess. We explored with the some of the different math manipulatives we will be using this year.

In science, we learned about our five senses and how they help us learn about the world around us. We used our sense of touch to feel objects in socks and guess what they were. We smelled different scents in baggies and guessed what they were. We tasted pickles, pretzel sticks, and chocolate chips. We learned about where we taste salty, sweet, sour, and bitter on our tongues. We also learned a song about our five senses.

We read The Kissing Hand and made a kissing hand for our parents on the first day. We read Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten and took pictures for our class book  Mrs. Shaw Gets Ready for Kindergarten.

We sang The Wheels on the Bus and then made our own buses and wrote how our buses would go through the town.



We ate Hershey's chocolate bars and then cut out the word he or she from the wrapper and used it graph the number of boys and girls in our class. We also used our graph to figure out how many total students we have in our class.


We created ourselves using a glyph code. We colored our pieces according to what we liked best from the questions we were given. Then we talked to a partner about how our glyphs were the same and different. We learned a lot about each other!



Thursday, August 12, 2010

My Family

I am so excited to get to know your child and your family this year. I thought I would start by sharing a little bit about mine. I am married to Joshua and we have two sons together, Logan Elijah and Lucas Elisha. Logan is 4 and Lucas is 1. I have a stepson Justin who is 9. Justin lives in Arlington with his Mom and will be in 4th grade this year. Logan starts preschool this year so I can definitely sympathize with your feelings about your baby going to school. Joshua is a store manager for Walgreens and we met at our church Inglewood Baptist in Grand Prairie where we still attend. We both help with Extended Teaching Care once every five weeks on Sunday mornings and I lead a small group of 7th and 8th grade girls on Wednesday nights. My favorite leisure activities are spending time with my family, serving at church, reading, and shopping. Below I made a digital photo book so you can see pictures of my family. I'm am so excited about the new school year and having your child in my class.

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Kindergarten Memories 2009-2010

Dear Parents and Students,
Thank you for all of your help and support this year. It is because of our work together that these kindergarteners will be first graders this coming August. Don't forget to read every day and practice word wall words so they'll be ready for first grade. Have a fantastic summer and enjoy some of my favorite memories from this year!


Love, Mrs. Shaw


PS Don't forget to come visit me in the fall!

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Camping!

We spent our last day doing camping actvities. We read A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee. We stopped at the point of the story when the camper stops rolling and rests next to the car. The students wrote and illustrated what they thought when happen next. Then we shared and finished the end of the story. We made and ate yummy s'mores. We put our hands inside a backpack and used our sense of touch to guess what camping items were in the backpack.                   

Kindergarten Class of 2010

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Ice Cream

We had a lot of fun learning about ice cream! We watched a story on Discovery Streaming called What's Under my Bed?. It's about two children who spend the night with their Grandpa and get scared. He tells them about a time he got scared when staying with his Grandparents and how eating strawberry ice cream helped him feel better. Then the students wrote about when eating ice cream makes them feel better. We also watched two short videos on the History channel about the history of ice cream and making ice cream. Then we made our own ice cream in a bag! The students loved it! We graphed our favorite flavor ice cream chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla. We also saw our reading buddies for the last time today.

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Picnic Fun

 We read Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. In the story Sylvester's parents have a picnic on Strawberry Hill, so the students wrote about where they would like to have a picnic. They also wrote and illustrated their favorite picnic food on a paper plate. In the computer lab, they illustrated a picnic scene in Pixie 2. Then we sorted picnic foods/containers by solid shapes (boxes, cans, spheres). We also made a picnic snack mix that we ate while we watched Sylvester on the Magic Pebble on Discovery Streaming.

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