We are 100 days smarter!!

We made it to 100 days of Kindergarten!!  We celebrated this milestone by completing some fun 100 days activities all day long:  we rotated with other Kindergarten classes and discovered all kinds of cool things about the number 100; we made 100 days of school hats by painting 10 dots on 10 strips of paper; we made a 100 items museum; we ate the number 100 and 100 cookies!!  (thank you to Jordan and Aidan's mom :); we took the challenge to build the tallest tower possible with 100 cups; we predicted how far 100 steps would take us from our classroom.  Some of us thought 100 steps would go all the way to the other end of the hall, while others predicted we would end up at the front office.  100 steps actually took us to Mrs. Waybright's first grade class, a little farther than the front office :).  Thank you all for sending 100 items with your child!  Please continue to practice counting at home!  We will return all the 100 items baggies by the end of the week.

Happy New Year!!

Dear parents,
Mrs. Wilson and I hope you all had a very peaceful and joyful Christmas, and we wish you a happy and healthy New Year 2015! Below is a link to all the pictures that were taken at our Winter Party in December. Thank you Mrs. Farmwald for taking these wonderful pictures! Thank you Mrs. Lahey, Mrs. Currere, Mrs. Tolliver, and Mrs. Farmwald for all your hard work to make our Winter Holiday party so fun and delicious! :) Thank you also for being so generous and thoughtful toward Mrs. Wilson and I! We truly loved and were touched by all the gifts and love we received.
We are so excited to start this new year! Please make sure your child reads and is read to everyday for at least 10 minutes. We will start the year by reviewing all our sight words; we will also start our measurement and data unit in Math and learn about Martin Luther King in Social Studies. We will also resume homework twice a week. Your child receives a Dojo point for each homework completed! As you all know, it is getting much colder outside, so please make sure your child comes to school with a warm coat everyday. We can't wait to see your children back this Tuesday, January 6th!!
Enjoy the rest of our break, and see you all soon!
Love, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Wilson-

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Grandparents Day

It was so nice having our grandparents and other special family members for lunch!! We love our families!

Our Thanksgiving Kinderfeast!!

Thank you SO much to all our parents who contributed food, drinks, silverware, napkins, and plates to our Kindergarten Thanksgiving "re-enaction." A special Thank You to Mrs. Farmwald for coordinating the Feast. We had so much fun and everything was delicious!! Mrs Wilson and I hope you all had a blessed and joyful Thanksgiving! We are so thankful for you and your children!

Halloween Fun!!

We had SO much fun on Halloween Day here at EJES!!  We counted and graphed bones and candy corn in Mrs. Detweiler's classroom;  we wrote about little pumpkins sitting on a gate in Mrs. Harmon's class; we learned about safety on Halloween Day and danced to fun Halloween songs in Mrs. Lausier's class; we re-enacted the story The Little Old Lady who was not Afraid of Anything and sequenced it back in order in our class, and we went on a fall walk outside and found pumpkins that we decorated and took home!!
A big THANK YOU to Andy Farmwald's mom for donating pumpkins and decorations to the whole class! The look on the kids' faces when they saw the pumpkins was priceless! :) Thank you also to Lily Currere's mom for the Halloween bags and craft, and to Jordan Richter's mom for providing snacks for the class.  Mrs. Wilson and I could not do all this without your thoughtfulness and generosity.  You all made our day so much more fun and memorable!

In School Field Trip with the Chattahoochee Nature Center

Kindergarten News!!

Here are some of the things we are currently learning about in our class:

Language Arts and Reading: 

·         We are comparing and contrasting fiction and non fiction books.  When you read to your child, ask: “is this book fiction or non fiction?  How do you know?

·         We are counting syllables in words.  Here are some strategies that we use:  clap as you say the word; put your hand under your chin and count how many times you open your mouth when you say a word; robot talk.

·         We are learning about rhyming words.  “How do you know when two words rhyme?  Tell me another word that rhymes with this word.”

·         We are working on decoding 3-letter words by sounding them out (ex:  c-a-t says cat!). 

 Math: 

·         We are comparing numbers using the words greater than, less than, and equal to.  We are also learning to use the symbols <, >, and =

·         We are composing and decomposing numbers 11-20 using ten frames.

·         We are still learning to count to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s.

·         We are learning to count sets of objects from 0-20 and write the matching number.

Science and Social Studies: 

·         In Science, we are learning about day and night.  What can you see in the day sky?  In the night sky?  What is the same?  What is different?  Does the sun move?  Does Earth move?  How?  Why can we see the moon at night?  What animals come out at night? 

·         In Social Studies, we will start our Thanksgiving unit at the beginning of November.  Our focus questions will be:  What is Thanksgiving?  Why and how do we celebrate it?  Who were the Pilgrims?  How and why did they come to America?  How did the Pilgrims and the Native Americans interact?  What can we learn from them?

As always, thank you so much for your help and support!  Continue to practice sight words with your child, counting to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s.  Read to your child,  or have your child read to you every night for at least 10 minutes!