Examples of Disguised Turkeys

Here are some examples of ways you can disguise your turkey:

Zebra 

Max's elephant

 Butterfly

 Rapunzel

Batman

A princess turkey

Star of the Week--Faith!

 We are pleased to announce our friend, Faith, is our

Star of the Week  for November 14th-18th.

Check out Faith's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for her!

Here are a few of Faith's favorite things:

Center: Dramatic Play 

Candy: lollipops

Number: 6

Restaurant: Burger King

Color: pink

Toy: Barbie Pony

Best Friend: Audrey

Food: chicken nuggets

Fruit: pineapple
Drink: Pink Lemonade
Flower: Daisy

Faith is such a smart girl!
She enjoys writing in her journal
and playing in Dramatic Play center.
She is very helpful in our classroom
and sweet to all of her friends.
We have enjoyed getting to know
more about our special friend.

Celebration of Learning

On Monday, we attended our 

first Celebration of Learning.

We had a great time

at the baseball-themed event!

Jonathan and Kate ran the bases
for being one of our "Hippest in
the House" students.

Singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!"

Trystin is enjoying C of L!

Heads up!

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Program

Thursday, November 17th

7:00pm

Your child will be singing in a musical on this night.  Our class will be dressed as pilgrims.  Please have your child here by 6:45 dressed and ready.

Please have them wear BLACK and WHITE.  

That same day, we will have a FEAST at 2:00 in the cafe.  This is a feast for our kinder kids only but we welcome parents to come and take pictures.  Our class will be in charge of paper plates and napkins.  I will be sending more info in your child's red folder.

If you can help set-up and clean-up (1:45), please let me know!  

Thank you so much for your help!

Disguised Turkeys

Don't forget to return your

"Disguised" Turkey

by this week!

I can not wait to see what

my friends have come up with!



Star of the Week--Max!

 We are pleased to announce our friend, Max, is our

Star of the Week  for November 7th-11th.

Check out Max's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for him!

Here are a few of Max's favorite things:

Center: Dramatic Play

Dessert: chocolate ice cream

T.V. Show: Star Wars

Sight Word: two

Restaurant: Burger King

Color: yellow

Toy: Legos

Best Friend: Jacob

Activity: playing with his toys
Animal: dinosaurs
Food: chicken nuggets
Shape: rectangle


Max is a very kind friend.
Also, he is a very good illustrator.
Max is always willing to help others too.
We really have enjoyed getting to know
more about our special friend.

More Fall Fun

We made patterns using red and yellow counters.

We made two different red/yellow combinations.

On Thursday, Mrs. O'Hearn came to visit our class.
We had a guidance lesson on respecting others.

Fall is Here!

Our week was filled with fun fall activities!

It was all about scarecrows!

We made a circle map of what a
scarecrow might do or how he might feel.

We made our very own scarecrows!

Here is Giovanni's scarecrow.
His scarecrow is mad!

Justin's scarecrow

Cherlin's creation

Cherlin's scarecrow is shy.

Audrey

Audrey's scarecrow is happy!

During phonics, we created different sentences about fall.
We wrote the sentence phonetically.
Then, we cut each word a part and sequenced
the sentence back together again.

Fun at the Fall Festival!

We had a blast during the Fall Festival. I hope you and your family had as much fun as I did. Check out some of our friends...

Kellen and Kate

Cherlin is sliding down the BIG slide!

Max is sliding so fast!

PJ Day tomorrow!

Our class has earned all of their bananas for good carpet behavior this week! We are celebrating tomorrow by wearing our pajamas to school!!!

Please make sure that all of the PJs are school dress code appropriate!!!

Our Star of the Week--Cherlin!!!

 We are pleased to announce our friend, Cherlin, is our

Star of the Week  for October 31st-November 4th.

Check out Cherlin's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for her!

Here are a few of Cherlin's favorite things:

Center: Art Center

Candy: lollipops

T.V. Show: Hannah Montana

Number: 10

Restaurant: McDonald's

Color: purple

Toy: dolls

Best Friend: Paige

Activity: playing with her family

Book: My Little Pony books

Cherlin is such a sweet friend!

She is a wonderful illustrator-her journal is a piece of art!

She is always willing to help others and share.

We have really enjoyed getting 

to know more about our special friend.

October Fun!!!

Our unit this week was all about spiders!

Here are a few activities we 

did with these creepy creatures...

Here are some facts we have learned about spiders.

EEKKK!!! There are spiders crawling across our window!!!

Check out our hand print spiders...

We added googly eyes...

Then, we wrote about our spiders!

Check out Jacob's spider and his facts!

During math, we have explored patterns!

Patterns of all kinds:

number 

color 

shape 

people

 item/ object

AB, AAB, ABB, ABC, and many more!

Jonathan and Keegan are making a pattern with cubes.

We teamed up with a partner to create two different kinds of patterns.

Trystin and Hayden with their pattern tower.

Check out Dane and Keira's "AB" pattern--Green, Red, Green...

Here is their recording sheet.

So fun to make patterns!

Blue, Red, Blue, Red

Kellen and Caitlyn

Here is another pattern...

In reading, we started talking 

about what good readers do.

Here are some things we think good readers do...

We will hang this poster in a special spot in our classroom,
so we can refer back to it every day.

Check it out!

Since we are studying spiders this week,

check out our little friend!

We observed this little creepy crawler

during science yesterday.

The kids loved it!!!

Me--NOT SO MUCH!

Gary Burns Fun Run

Join us for some fun at the annual

Gary Burns Fun Run

on Saturday, October 29th!

This event benefits the Frisco Education Foundation.

The 5k run begins at 8:00!

Registration is needed to participate.

Go to the Frisco ISD website for more information.

Hope to see you there!

Star of the Week--Aidan!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Aidan, is our

Star of the Week  for October 24-28th.

Check out Aidan's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for him!

Here are a few of Aidan's favorite things:

Animal: dogs

Ice Cream: vanilla ice cream

Food: peanut butter and

 jelly sandwiches

Number: 2

Restaurant: Chick-Fil-A

Color: red

Activity: riding bikes

Best Friend: Austin

Holiday: Halloween

Aidan is an awesome student!
He is a math whiz!
Aidan enjoys karate and
working in centers each day.
We have enjoyed getting to know
more about our friend!

The Pumpkin Patch

Here is our Smilebox from the Pumpkin Patch today!

Please enjoy!

The kids had a blast...and as you can see 

in the video...they were very tired afterwards!!!

THANKS again to all of the parent
volunteers that went with us today!

You guys ROCK!!!

I greatly appreciate all of your help and 

assistance in making this trip memorable for the kids!

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