Attention Parents!

It was very nice meeting with you today. I am looking forward to a wonderful school year.

If you are having trouble finding the yellow plastic folders with the metal prongs in the center you can look at Walmart and Beckers. I found the folders at both places. However, it looks like yellow is the popular folder choice for this year. If you cannot find yellow choose any color you find as long as they are plastic with the metal prongs in the center.

Thanks for your cooperation and Happy Shopping!

Kindergarten Orientation!

It is hard to believe that the 2011-2012 school year is just around the corner. I am excited about starting a new school year and I look forward to working with your child this year! I just want to remind everyone that Kindergarten Orientation is on Thursday, August 25th from 1:00-3:00. I look forward to meeting you on Thursday!

A Great Year!

I can't believe the school year is over already! I hope your chidren enjoyed their kindergarten expereince as much as I enjoyed teaching them. I will truly miss them next year. Thanks for all of your support and cooperation this year. I wish everyone a very safe and relaxing summer!

Enjoy the pictures from our beach party and don't forget to check out our new podcast "My Favorite Kindergarten Memory"!

A Fun Week!

What a great last week of Kindergarten! We started our week off with the 25 Book Challenge Celebration for all students who returned the reading sheets. Mrs. Ginther put on a fun show that even involved water balloons!

Our Kindergarten Picnic was lots of fun. I would like to thank everyone for donating food and helping out at the picnic. I know the students really enjoyed themselves. The Readers Theatre Presentation was also a lot of fun. I am so proud of each and every one of my students. They have worked so hard all year and it truely was a blast being their teacher. I hope you enjoyed watching the presentation as much as I did!

The Countdown Begins!

I can't believe we are down to only 9 more days of school! This year went by so fast.

For the remainder of the year we will work on addition and subtraction. These are some of the most difficult math concepts that we have learned all year. Please practice addition and subtraction all summer so that your child will be ready for first grade. You can practice addition and subtraction in fun ways. For example we used pretzels last week to demonstrate subtraction problems. You can use cereal, fruit snacks, toys, stickers, or simply draw pictures.

In Language Arts we are reviewing all of the skills learned this year. Those skills include- compare and contract, main idea, character, setting, sequence, realism and fantasy, nouns, and verbs. We are also reviewing letters, sounds, decoding skills and fluent reading. We have also been reviewing all 40 sight words. In writing we will be concentrating writing two or more sentence each time we write. We will also continue focusing on writing neatly, leaving meatball spaces, and using correct punctuation.

We have some exciting things coming up the next few days.

June 6- 25 Book Challenge Celebration (if you did not hand in the sheet please do so by June 3rd)
June 7- Kindergarten Picnic and Readers Theatre Presentation (rain date June 8th)
June 13- Last Day of School and Beach Party (more information coming soon)

Field Day 2011!

A special thank you to Mrs. Vajda for all of her hard work. Field Day was a blast!

May Fun!

Earlier this month we planted marigold seeds! Thanks again to everyone who donated seeds and soil! The children are having a great time watching their plants grow. I will be sending home the plants at the end of the month.












A special thanks to Mr. Bindics for teaching us about screen printing. Our Field Day shirts turned out great!
















We have been learning addition in Math and we will be having a test next Tuesday. We will start our final chapter, subtraction, next week!