There was a Noodle name Nyle...

Who liked to nap for a while.
He wears a scarf around his neck
He's neat and right in style!
Hopefully your child has been coming home and singing, or at least telling you about our alphafriends. They even have the same beginning sound as the letter they help us to remember. It is always a lot of fun on Monday/Tuesday when I get to introduce our new alphafriend/letter for the week.
This week we are learning about Nyle Noodle and/or the letter Nn. However, believe it or not, we have already met 6 alphafriends and spent at least a week on the letter each of them represent.
Just in case you were wondering....here are the remaining 5.
s=Sammy Seal
m=Mimi Mouse
r=Reggie Rooster
t=Tiggy Tiger
b=Benny Bear
Your child should be able to recognize each of these letters (upper and lowercase), say the sound the letter makes, and write them as well! So practice, practice, practice. Have your child teach you the songs and sing along with them! I am sure you will enjoy them as much as we do or even more! (Be careful! They are catchy and you will find yourself singing them at work, doing dishes or just driving in the car! :)) Isn't Kindergarten the best!?!?!?!??!

SoMe MoRe RoCkS fRoM mOnDaY-wEdNeSdAy GrOuP.......

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!