Clay Creations with Mrs. Quock

We were honored today to have Justina's mom, Mrs. Quock in our classroom. She brought a wonderful clay project that allowed us to use our imaginations and cultivate our thinking skills. Each child had to visualize what they wanted to make, think about the shapes that were used in the object, and then form their creation. When the clay creations were done the children were allowed to bring them home to bake in their ovens at 275'Degrees for 20 minutes. Mr. B welcomes all the parents into the classroom on Friday mornings to do art projects, read a book to the class, or prepare a cooking project. Please feel free to email Mr. B to schedule a date to volunteer.

Open House and Meet the Teacher Night!

We would like to invite all of our family and friends to come see our kindergarten classroom and meet our teacher Mr. Ballesteros. Our Open house will be on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 7:00pm. Everyone will get a chance to see our schedule, curriculum, and find out a bit more about our everyday happenings. We hope that everyone can make it to share in our special day. Aloha from Kindergarten!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We started off our week with the reading of Eric Carle's, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Each of us played an important role in acting this story out and bringing it to life. We each took turns being the caterpillar while the rest of us imagined that we were pieces of fruit or junk food. By acting out this story we learned about characters in the book, the setting, and the parts of the story. When we read new books in our class we will usually try to re-enact them to gain a better understanding of the characters and the plot. Overall we enjoyed this task tremendously and can't wait to do it again.

Our First Week was a Blast!!

Our morning schedule consists of Morning prayer, The Pledge of Allegiance, Calendar, The Weather, and Mr. B's Morning Message. We got a chance to act out, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." It was really fun as we inched along the classroom floor and pretended we were eating lots and lots of fruit and junk food. We also had a chance to draw our self portraits and paint with watercolors. Each of us took turns working in small groups to complete puzzles and pattern necklaces. Our Chinese class with Mr. Maa was interesting as we challenged ourselves to find out our Chinese names. Our classroom jobs were given by Mr. B. These jobs included teachers helper, chair helper, supply helper, plant helper, fish feeder, snack helper, Pledge helper, and calendar helper. During outside time we got to play with puppets and play basketball. Next week we will begin studying our phonemic awareness and letter writing. Starting next week we will be getting homework everyday in our red folders so stay alert and check our folders please. Also please try to read to us every night before bed as we begin to learn reading skills and left to right directionality.