a LiTtLe RoCk FuN!!!!!

What a week in Kindergarten! We have been learning about the letter R, the sound the letter makes and meeting our 3rd Alphafriend, Reggie Rooster!!!! Hopefully you have been hearing Reggie's song at home and had fun finding things that begin with the /r/ sound! We know we have!!! We ended the week with guessing what could Mrs. Ryan possibly put in the R box for us to guess this time? Guess what?!?!?!? She put Rocks in there! Not just any rocks but rocks that we got to paint and make into a pet! Oh what fun!!!!! Take a look at our Rocks and the names we gave them!!!

Have you seen our Gingerbread Man?

We started the first day of school with a book about a gingerbread cookie, The Gingerbread Baby. Have you read it? It is a story about a little boy that bakes a gingerbread baby but doesn't follow the instructions and opens the oven before the suggested time. The gingerbread baby runs away and has many people and animals trying to catch him to eat him. However, in the end, the little boy is smart and bakes a gingerbread house. The big surprise however, is at the end when you lift the house and finding the gingerbread baby happy and caught!
The book made us all very hungry but Mrs. Ryan was a thinker and made us a HUGE gingerbread man cookie for us all to share for snack. We went to recess and came into our classroom with our mouths watering, only to find our gingerbread man missing! Can you imagine?
This started our tour of the school and how to walk in line. We looked in the office and meet Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Martinez (secretaries). We went to they gym and asked Mr. Andrus (PE teacher). We stopped by the lunchroom and they hadn't seen him. We went and asked Ms. Burr (Music teacher) and she never saw him either! We walked everywhere through the school (Learning "Hips and Lips" to keep us quiet in the hall!) and even asked the people we met along the way. Still, no gingerbread man!
Luckily, at the end of the day...Mr. Silzly (Principal) brought back our gingerbread man! He had been running on the blacktop outside at recess (This is a No, no!) and feel down and got hurt so someone took him to the office!
Thank goodness we learned rules and places we will go along the way so that will not happen to us! However, better than that, we finally got to have our snack!

Sorry T-Th group, somehow some of our pictures were deleted! I promised to make it up to you! Parents, we did have a lot of fun even if some of the pictures didn't make it here!

Introducing our new Kindergarteners!

Sneak Peek was an success! I enjoyed meeting you and your child! Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming! Every year I am amazed at how I have been blessed by so many wonderful parents and students! So I would like to introduce to you, Reed Elementary's new groups of Kinder. Kids!! It is going to be a great year! I can't wait!

HELLO, and WELCOME to our Classroom!!!

School is about to begin, and I am so very excited about our new year coming up! I can't wait to meet you and your child! It is going to be a fun new adventure being at school all day/every other day!
I have lots of fun and exciting activities planned for the months ahead. As we begin the school year, I look forward to getting to know you and your child much better. I hope that you will come and visit with us from time to time. If your schedule permits,I would love to have you volunteer in the classroom on a regular basis. If not,I hope you can join us for field trips or for a visit when you have a day off. You are always welcome in our classroom!
Again, I am looking forward to a great year and many successes with your child!

sPlAsH dAy 2009!!!

Splash Day was a HUGE success!!! Thank you to the parents that donated items and came into help! What a fun way to end the year and celebrate all we have accomplished! I was completely surprised by a beautiful quilt that my morning class had created for me! WOW! I was speechless (Hard to imagine, isn't it?) Thank you so very much! It was an amazing gift and I am still in awe of it! We have found a quilt rack and it is now proudily displayed in our Boise State Room at home! I had the perfect spot for it! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It was above what was necessary and I feel completely spoiled! I am going to miss each and everyone of you this summer and it will be especially hard when you come to school and keep walking down the hall, instead of coming to Room 2!! Enjoy pictures of our fun day!

TOMORROW IS OUR BIG SPLASH DAY!!!

Parents,
Please remember that tomorrow is our big water day! If you have signed up to help, please come to school with your child to help out at a station! We are so very excited!!!
Every Kindergartner will need to have sunblock on! They will need shoes and clothes that can get wet! (You may send an extra pair of clothes in if you would like too!)
See you tomorrow! Let the fun begin!!!!

A Special Note To Parents/Parent Teachers and Ms. Stassie from Mrs. Ryan.

It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of Kindergarten! It has been truly a wonderful year, filled with learning, laughter and amazing growth! I cannot say enough how much I appreciate you sharing your children with me! They have developed and grown so much over the past year and I am so very proud of every one of them! It has been an honor to work with them each and every day and be a small part of their school career!
In no way do the two little words, "Thank you" begin to express how much I have appreciated each and everyone of you, my parents. Even if you did not have the opportunity to work in our classroom, I appreciate all of the time, love and understanding that you give to help your child be the best they can be! You have made my job easier and because of you, this year has been a HUGE success!
I need to take a moment to also thank those of you that gave up your time and worked with us in our classroom! I have always been so blessed to have such willing parents and grandparents spend countless hours in the copy room, organizing centers and/or me, stuffing folders, and/or working with us in the classroom! You did not let me down this year! Your help and availability completely amaze me! (If I didn't get your picture in the slideshow, please fogive me! I truly didn't mean to leave you out! This blog is a work in progress and I have big plans for next year!My hope is that you will know who you are and know how much I greatly appreciate you!!) I am overwhelmed with gratitude for all you have done to make my job easier! In fact, you leave me the fun part,simply just teaching your children! I do hope you know how much I appreciate each and everyone of you and now call you my friends!
That leaves us to our student helper from the High School this year. I was a little nervous about volunteering to have a helper but Ms. Stassie, you have been nothing less than amazing! You are so extremely talented and the best helper a teacher could ask for! Your smile and eagerness to work and enjoy Kindergarten is contagious and I enjoyed you more than you will ever know! You were a role model, an encourager, a helper, an igloo builder (teehee!) a photographer, a tester, and a perfect copy queen! We wish you the best in everything you do and hope you will always remember the special place you will have in our hearts. The only regret I have, is that my AM class did not get to experience, Ms. Stassie!! It was a pleasure to work and share my profession with you!
I appreciate each and everyone of you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Please remember to stop in and give your ol' Kindergarten Teacher a hug as you walk down the hall to your new classrooms! I am always available to you because you will always be the parents of children I have had the privilege to have worked with and love!