M is for Mouse (Mimi Mouse that is!)

We have met another alphafriend! Mimi Mouse!

Mimi Mouse, Mimi Mouse,
Minds her Manners in the house.
When she sips her Milk
She never Makes a Mess!
Mud pies never stain her dress!

We not only learned the letter M and the sound the letter makes, we got to shove Marshmallows in our Mouths and see if we could sing the song. If that wasn't crazy enough, we had some good old fashion fun playing in the Mud!

Maybe Mrs. Ryan has lost her Marbles!!!

We were not as good as Mimi though. There were a few of us that might have stained our "dress"!

Thanks Moms and Dads for being such great sports! We had a great time!!!

A HuGe SHOUT oUt.......

Our week has been full of meeting our new alphafriend, learning classroom routines/workshop time and how to be at school, learning our first "Heart" word AND we even had the extra special treat of working with 5th graders AND playing with snakes!

Yes, I said snakes but 1st things first, the 5th graders!

Mrs. Dobson's 5th grade class had an assignment to create a letter book and they were kind enough to come down to our room and share them with us! The alphabet books turned out fabulous and getting the chance to work with brothers, sisters or the "BIG" kids made our afternoon perfect! The best part was finding out that not only did they get to show us their books, they also are going to give them to us to keep in our room! Thank you Mr. Dobson and 5th Graders! You are all amazing and we LOVED having you!!! Hopefully you will get to come and work with us again!!

Now on to those snakes! In our newsletter, I asked you (the parents) to send in old ties that dads might not miss for a project. Well we didn't receive enough for each student but we did have one family donate 25 snakes for our classroom. Thank you Mrs. H!! You are the bestest ever!! Anyways, we didn't have enough for us to make the snakes but my mom so graciously made the 25 ties into "classroom" set of snakes for us to dance and sing with ! Thanks Mom!! We are so appreciative and LOVED playing with them! I couldn't think of a better way to make the /s/ sound with than with an actual little snake that we could hold! Fun, fun times in Kindergarten!

The kids met our very first alphafriend this week!! The best part of learning to read is meeting our alphafriends throughout the year and the songs that go along with them! As silly as these songs are, the kids LOVE them!!! These catchy little tunes tend to get stuck in your head and will never leave and that is the goal! If you can remember Sammy, you can remember the sound that the letter S makes!! Let's get ready to read Kindergarten! Yipee!!! For all of you parents that would like to sing along....

Sammy Seal will sail the sea
When summer is the season.
Sammy Seal will sail the sea
And never need a reason!
Sammy Seal will sail the sea
In very sunny weather.
Sammy Seal salutes a seagull
As they sail together!!!

...and Kindergarten begins!!!

....we have been having fun in Kindergarten our first 2 weeks together! Hopefully you all feel the same way too! Take a minute and enjoy some of the pictures of some of the things we did!