Kindergarten Clowns

If I Were A Clown
Author Unknown
If I were a clown
For just one day
I’d make up my face
In the funniest way.

A nose like a hose
Eyebrows of green
And the biggest smile
You’ve ever seen.

Mrs. Haught's Tots Are Juggling Academics and Fun!

The Circus has come to town. It might look like we're clowning around in Kindergarten, but we’ve been very busy juggling patterns, recognizing 2 & 3 D shapes, practicing sight words, position words, rhyming words, and name writing.

Wednesday is Library Day

Library Day

We will visit the library on Wednesday mornings. In the library, Mrs. Cassidy will entertain them with a story. The first few weeks in the library, we focused on book care, listening skills, and how to select a book. This past Wednesday the children had the opportunity to select a book to keep in the classroom. The books will be shared with each other and our reading buddies. Starting this week, the students will be able to check out a book and borrow it for a week. Please don’t forget to return your book before our next scheduled library day.

Kindergarten Rhyme Time

We've had an exciting time completing different Nursery Rhyme activities this week.
How many riddles can you answer?
Nursery Rhyme Riddles:
I went to school.My lamb followed me.Who am I? (Mary)
We went to fetch water.We fell down the hill.Who are we? (Jack and Jill)
I’m nimble and quick.I jumped over the candlestick.Who am I? (Jack Be Nimble)
I sat on a wall.When I fell off the wall, I broke.Who am I? (Humpty Dumpty)
I’m a merry old soul.I called for my pipe, my bowl, and three fiddlers.Who am I? (Old King Cole) I blow my horn to call the sheep.I fell asleep under the haystack.Who am I? (Little Boy Blue)
I’m black and I give wool.I have a bag of wool for my master, my dame, and a little boy down the lane.Who am I? (Baa, Baa, Black Sheep)
I kissed some girls and made them cry.Who am I? (Georgie Porgie)
The little dog laughed to see such sport.The cow jumped over the moon.What did the dish run away with? (The Spoon)

Shaking Our Shapes In Kindergarten

This has been a fun week exploring shapes in our world. We had show and tell using items that displayed the shape of the day. The children experienced eating, drawing, and writing about shapes in our environment. We enjoyed wearing our headbands and shaking our shapes! Click on the arrow to play the video.

Early Dismissal Day-September 17, 2008

Early dismissal provides an opportunity for parent conferences and professional learning. September seventeenth will be designated as a professional development day. We will schedule conferences at a later date.

Elementary students will be dismissed at 11:50 a.m. Please make sure to return your child's piece of paper that states how he/she will be getting home from school that day.

Progress Reports

The beginning of the school year is an adjustment period mentally, emotionally, and academically for our younger learners. For this reason, a progress report will not be sent home for the first 4 ½ week grading period. Although some new skills are introduced and other skills refined, this is a time to let the children get accustomed with the routine and their learning environment before any type of formal evaluation of academic mastery occurs.

Who Loves To Read Clifford Stories? Click the arrow and find out.

Wow! What an exciting week this has been. We have started our reading groups and received our first Jack and Jilly Readers. We’ve been practicing our alphabet letters, sounds, and sight words. The children love listening to Clifford stories. We use the stories to discuss, parts of a book, author, illustrator, main character, setting, and making predictions. The students are enjoying guessing what Clifford will do next. We are off to a great start and finally settling into our new schedule. I’m so proud of them!

Reminder: Picture Day is Thursday!

Our school picture day is on Thursday, September 4th… Please make certain that you have marked the envelope with your package choice & enclosed the appropriate payment amount. All students will be photographed. The pictures taken will be used for our school yearbook. If you need another envelope, just send me a note or an email.
Our school make-up picture date has yet to be announced.

Back to School Bash Winner!

Congratulations to Kate Beard for winning the "Kids Night Out on the Town" basket at our back to school bash! We would like to thank all the parents, staff, and PTO members who participated in making it a huge success. Thanks for all of your hard work and donations.