Kindergarten Routines and Rules

We have been really working hard the past three days on learning all of the new routines and rules for Kindergarten Plus at Northview!

When we get to school in the morning, we have two very important jobs to do.  First, we need to be sure we check our back packs to see if there is anything in them that we might need to give to Mrs. Kurt. 

Next, when we go in to the classroom, we go to our table spot and find our clip.  (The clip is really a clothespin with our name on it.)  Our job is to take it to the behavior chart and place it on the green "Ready To Learn" area because when we come to school, we are ready to learn!

One of our favorite times of the day is Snack and Milk time.  We are working hard on eating healthy snacks and drinking all of our milk!

Mrs. Kurt also gives us time to practice our lunch numbers for when we go to lunch...another favorite part of our day!

   

We are learning the names of all our new friends in Kindergarten Plus.  We do this by playing some fun name games during our Morning Meeting.

We learned a cool Math counting game called "ZAP" and we can't wait to play it again tomorrow.

After recess, we had a little bit of Quiet Time.  Mrs. Kurt was super excited because we all did a great job just coloring and relaxing before our busy afternoon started.  Such good listeners!!!

We had a visit with our school nurse, Mrs. Hannasch, this afternoon.  She showed us a great video and talked to us about allergies.  We learned that lots of people have allergies and that it is OK to have allergies!  She also reminded us that we should not share our food and that we need to be good helpers by washing our hands after we eat and  cleaning our table spots after snack.  We want all our friends to be happy and safe.

We are so busy learning new things that we are pretty tired at night.  Remember to get lots of rest...tomorrow will be another busy day!

Our First Day of Kindergarten

It was such an amazing day!  Thanks to all the parents who attended our Kindergarten Orientation meeting this morning.

We learned lots of new things today.  We learned how Kindergartners line up.  We learned how we use the bathrooms and wash our hands at school.  And, we learned how to put our lunch numbers in the system and how to stack the trays after we eat so they don't all crash to the ground.  We had our snacks and then we learned how to be safe on the playground.  And that was just the morning!!!

  

I think our favorite part of the day was lunch and recess!

After lunch, we read the story "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn.  It's about a little raccoon named Chester who did not want to go to school on his first day.  He actually felt sad in the story!  But then his mom gave him a kissing hand and he felt lots better.  Ask your child what the kissing hand is!  When we finished the story, we talked about how we felt on the first day of school...look at our responses!

   

We also got to visit the school library this afternoon and meet Mrs. Hemsey.

Then it was time for us to go home for the day.  We were all tired but Mrs. Kurt said we did a great job.  She told us to be sure and get a good night sleep because there is lots more for us to learn tomorrow!!

Welcome to the 2013-2014 School Year!

Well, we are back!  Ms. Arboe, my student teacher and I have been busy preparing our classroom and attending meetings.  We are getting so excited for our Open House this evening.  Check out how our classroom looks so far... 

 

  

  

Look at the adorable door display Ms. Arboe designed for us...

 It is going to be a great year.  Hope to see you at our open house tonight!

Dodge Nature Center

We had a great day today.  Our field trip to Dodge Nature Center was amazing.  Many thanks to our chaperones Jim Newton, Paula Ruppert, Jamie Samuelson and Jodi Radermacher for making this trip even better.  Enjoy some fun photos from our trip!

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

   

  

We saw lots of pretty cool animals and learned even more about farms.  My favorite story from the day was when one of the guides asked the kids what baby pigs were called and one of our students replied, "pork chops"!  See why I love this job??

Our Last Friday in Kindergarten

Our day started with a visit from Mrs. Carl.  She stopped by to thank us for the blanket we made for her when she had her recent knee surgery.  She really likes it and we felt really good doing something nice for someone else.

Mrs. Young stopped in during writing time.  Mrs. Young is an Occupational Therapist who works at Northview.  She helps our students with lots of things...like how to hold pencils properly, and how to strengthen our fine motor muscles.  She has been awesome helping us during Writing Workshop all year, too.

We worked on some center activities during Math.

  

Since it was finally nice outside, we went out to the playground after lunch for some free choice recess time and to take some class photos!