Ask me all about our Fine Motor center today!  We painted with raindrops!!!  Last night we put out a bucket to catch some of the rain.  This morning, during morning meeting, we brought the bucket inside and measured the amount of water we caught.  The we used watercolors and painted with our RAINDROPS!!!  They are gorgeous!  We learned that an artist holds a paintbrush just like a writer holds a pencil.  

Ask me all about our Apple Taste Test!  We used our sense of taste to decide which kind of apple we liked best.  We used the word BECAUSE when sharing our thoughts so we could include WHY we felt the way we did! Then we graphed the results!!!!

Ask me all about Johnny Appleseed!  We learned about his life and how much he LOVED apples!!!  During Learning Centers we performed an apple science experiment, created wormy apples to decorate our classroom, and we wrote about our apple adventures!!!

Ask me all about our Warm Fuzzy Jar!!!  We filled it!!!  We did it together...by sharing, caring, and working hard!!!  Mrs. Brady was so proud of us!  We got to go outside and play in the fresh fall leaves!  We played in the sandbox and some of us even went down the HUGE slide.  It was so much fun!!!!

Ask me all about Lines!  Today we handled, explored, and polished 4 different kinds of wooden lines.  We learned their names and we began to notice how the lines can come together to form all kinds of letters!!! They are so cool!  We can't wait until tomorrow.  We are going to build the whole alphabet!!!

Ask me all about our special day!  We had so much fun preparing for and enjoying The 2015 Warren school Harvest Luncheon.  Thank you to all of the people that helped make it happen!!!
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Ask me all about our school garden!!! We took a garden walk with our 5 senses!!!

Ask me all about our Morning Meeting!  We discussed what we do in the event of a Fire Drill.  We read a fun story and talked about where we go and what we do!  We were very serious and asked wonderful questions. Then we practiced!!!   We were very good listeners!  

Ask me all about our exciting day!  This morning during Learning Centers we had a special guest visitor.  A female hummingbird flew into our room.  We named her Diamond because she was SO pretty.  She flew around and around and around.  Finally (with a lot of help from Mr. Scott and Mrs. U) we rescued her and got her back outside to our garden.  WOW!!!!   It was so exciting that we all stopped to watch!

Our afternoon was exciting too!  Our Kinder-friends are MOVIE STARS!!!  We made a movie to teach everyone what being  Reader looks like.  It is AWESOME!!!  We watched it during Reader's Workshop and we can't wait to show our Pre-K friends!!!  
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Ask me all about the special story we read today!  It was The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds.  It is a story that reminds us to believe in ourselves.  We are all special and we are all talented.  
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To celebrate International Dot Day, we painted with dots, we practiced "signing" (writing) our name just like the little girl in the story, and we used the ipads and a special app to create "Digital Dot Art"!  It was so fun!!!

Ask me all about our Alphabet Study!  We kicked it off today with a Popcorn Party for the letter Pp!!!!  We are learning about letters in a very special order.  Our first letter pair is P/B.  They are both "Air Puffing" letters.  
The letter Pp makes a quiet air puffing sound.  Our Secret Password is.... P  Pumpkin "P"!!!

While we made our popcorn we talked about Our Five Senses!  We were able to Hear, Taste, Smell, Touch, and See the popcorn!!!  It was YUMMY!!!!!!
During Learning Centers we worked on puzzles and we made Pp's out of pom-poms!!!  

Ask me all about Learning Centers!  We used a new tool called whiteboards and special markers that can erase!  We worked on writing some letters and our names!  Mr. Smiley was there, of course, reminding us to always start our letters at the top!

Ask me all about Mr. Smiley!  He is our new friend.  He reminds us to Always start our letters at the top!!!  One of the stations during learning centers today was name writing!  Mr. Smiley helped us out!  He is so cool!

Ask me about the silly song I learned today!  We danced, we sang, and we pointed to the TOP!!!  Then we painted our names with special dot painters.  It was so fun!  Click on the button below to hear our song!

We also had some special choice time before our Pre-K friends went home.  We worked and played together, taking turns, helping, and sharing.  Our Multiage classroom is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Ask me all about Learning Centers today!  We learned a special song about how to hold our crayons!  It was so fun to sing!  We all used our BIG crayons to practice with.  Then during Leaning Centers, we made dancing crayons at one of our stations.  We had to color and cut and glue!!!  Our hands were tired!!!  
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Ask me all about my first week of school!!!!  We were so very busy and had so much fun!!!!  We made new friends, we played outside, we sang songs, we shared stories, we played games, we painted and glued, and we built castles!!!
Here are some pictures from our first week!!!

Ask me all about our class promise! During Shared Reading we have been reading books all about friendship and school. Today we created a class promise full of things we want to see happening in our classroom and on the playground. Then we got to go outside to celebrate and play with our new friends. We had so much fun!!!

Ask me all about my very first day of school!  We had SO much fun!!!  We were very busy making friends and learning routines.  We can't wait to come back tomorrow!!!