First Update

I know I am very behind on the blog.  Don't worry, I have been taking as many pictures as I can.  Since I'm four months behind, I am mainly going to focus on the pictures.  I'll write captions for the pictures, so you'll be able to figure out the event.
Celebrating M's 6th birthday the day after Winter Break
 
Pajama Party for good behavior with me in the picture (January 15, 2013)


Enjoying ice cream sandwiches at the party


The students love to make their names out of blocks in the construction station


Painting Pink and Purple Polka-dots on the letter P (part of our alphabet art)






Celebrating K's 6th birthday!!!


More posts coming soon!

Gingerbread Fun!

We've started a gingerbread unit.  In the past week, we have read many gingerbread stories:
1. The Gingerbread Man
2. The Gingerbread Girl
3. The Gingerbread Cowboy
4. Gingerbread Baby
5. The Gingerbread Pirates
The students are very familiar with these stories now.  We've compared the stories many times.  Also, we did a sequencing project with the story, The Gingerbread Man.  We've also made a gingerbread glyph and made gingerbread ornaments.  Yesterday, we made a graph about our favorite gingerbread stories.  Our class favorite:  The Gingerbread Pirates!  We will continue with our gingerbread unit next week.  More fun to come!

I managed to get pictures of a few friends with their finished gingerbread ornaments in front of our classroom tree:








Here is our classroom tree after the students decorated it with their gingerbread ornaments:

Here are two class pictures in front of the tree - one student was absent:

A Small Update

A brief update with pictures.  I've managed to capture most of our celebrations on camera.  Hopefully, life will slow down a little after the new year, and I will be able to start updating regularly with greater detail.

Here they are dressed in pajamas for our 3rd lasso party celebrating their great behavior:


Happy 6th birthday F!


Happy 6th birthday K!


Celebrating S's 6th birthday







Happy 6th Birthday S!


Celebrating A's 6th birthday










Happy 6th birthday A!

These students made their names out of blocks in reading centers - they are so creative!:
 

Happy 1/2 birthday C!
 
 

Happy Halloween!

We had a fabulous Halloween at our school.  First, the entire school went on our annual Halloween parade to the neighborhood nursing home and back to school.  We had the Topeka West High School band leading us the whole way.  When we arrived back at our school, we went straight to our classroom to party.  The students cut out pumpkins and chose how to decorate their pumpkin.  They picked out the style of eyes, nose, and mouth.  Then, they glued their chosen pieces to the pumpkin.  When they were finished, they had their very own jack-o-lantern.  After the craft, we ate our delicious treats.  Then, we played some Alphabet Bingo using candy pumpkins.  Of course, we enjoyed the candy pumpkins after the game.  Later in the afternoon, we carved a real jack-o-lantern!  After I opened the pumpkin, the students took turns digging out the seeds.  Then,  I carved a face, and we lit up the jack-o-lantern.  We love Halloween!

Our class before the parade (missing a few students who arrived late)

Our class before the parade including me

 
Here are some pictures on the parade route:




Our class after the parade

Enjoying the treats during the party











Here's some friends digging out the pumpkin seeds :-)


Each table posing with the finished jack-o-lantern





Happy Halloween!!!