Welcome to Kindergarten!

We are very excited to begin another year of kindergarten at Lyman Elementary School. We are looking forward to a great year full of learning and fun with our wonderful students.

The months ahead will give us many chances to learn about the things that make the fall so much fun: starting school, tasty apples, plentiful pumpkins, Thanksgiving and much more!

We encourage you to check the blog through the year for pictures of class activities and updates about what we are learning and doing.

Winter Celebrations

We have been learning a lot in K5 (ever since we finally got back in school after the week long snow break)! We celebrated the 100th day (and Groundhog's Day, both on the same day). The class found 100 sticky dots hiding in our classroom and we sang songs where we had to exercise 100 times!
Our Valentine's Day celebration was a lot of fun too! We exchanged V-day cards and had homemade cupcakes, cookies and chips! YUM!
It has been exciting to watch the kids grow and learn! They are getting so smart!!! We are looking forward to Spring and the warmer weather!

Christmas Fun!

We had a month filled with excitement in December. We read many versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Gingerbread Man. We tasted Gingerbread cookies and graphed the part we ate first. The head always wins! Check out the picture of our class graph.

In Math, we studied 3D shapes, symmetry and fractions. The kids did very well learning difficult vocabulary words like cylinder, cube, rectangular prism and sphere.

We loved visiting D.R. Hill Middle for Storytime with Santa this month. Everyone ate cookies and drank milk, listened to stories read by middle school students and got to sit in Santa's lap! We have a picture of every student sitting in Santa's lap for you to see!

Also during December, we had a popcorn and movie party because we collected so many box tops during the Fall semester. We loved watching Junglebook and eating popcorn at the same time!

We had a Winter Celebration on December 16 and everyone dressed in his or her PJ's and watched the Polar Express. We took a class picture of everyone in their PJ's including Mrs. Pittman and Mrs. Marr! We ate pizza and a lot of cookies! Jeanne Brown and Mary Lynn Carroll surprised the teachers with a teacher tote filled with gift cards from our students and their families. What a sweet surprise! Thank you parents and students for your generous gifts!

We wrote letters to Santa and mailed them to the North Pole on December 16. By the next day, Santa typed us a letter and mailed it to our class. I read the letter aloud and it explained the importance of good behavior so that Santa will bring everyone gifts for Christmas. He listed each child by name and how he would work hard to make sure they recieve their presents for Christmas.

On December 17, we had a schoolwide sing-a-long in the cafeteria. We sang fun songs like Must Be Santa and Jingle Bells. The kids danced to Macarena Christmas! Many of the teachers performed and sangs silly songs like I want a Hippotamus for Christmas.

We loved the month of December and look forward to learning how to subtract and make predictions during the month of January and... celebrate the 100th day of school!

November and Our Writing Conferences

November was a busy month for our Kindergarten class! We learned how to add by adding how many orange and yellow feathers were on our turkeys. We also learned how to compare and contrast stories. We learned about life long ago and what it was like to be a Pilgrim and an Indian in comparison to life today.

Our student led conferences were the main focus for this month in our class. We worked very hard to prepare for this big event by collecting writing samples and practicing reading them to share with our parents. On November 23 our parents arrived at 10:30 am and we shared our writing with them. We sang Thanksgiving songs and had a light snack together. Check out the picture slide show to see all the parents and students enjoying this special day!

Red Ribbon Week and Pumpkins!

We ended the month of October with Red Ribbon Week. Each day the children were asked to dress up either in red (100% class participation!), wear team jerseys, wear crazy socks or wear a hat to school. The slide show will allow you to see some of the attire from red ribbon week. It was a fun, fun week for us all!!!
On October 29, we had the first ever Lyman storybook character dress up day!! We had some great characters the parade like Angelina Ballerina, Woody, Dr. Seuss, Peter Cottontail and Little Miss Muffet. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Also, on October 29 we (Mrs. Marr) carved our class pumpkin. We decided to carve a happy face because our class voted that we liked happy faces the best. Everyone completed a class pumpkin data sheet that will be a part of his or her kindergarten scrapbook that will go home at the end of the year.
October was a fun filled month with a lots of learning. We are looking forward to all that November has in store for us!! It is hard to believe Thanksgiving will be here at the end of the month!

Happy Fall!

We have been learning so much this Fall! In September, we learned about apples and tasted the three kinds (green, red and yellow). We graphed our favorite kind and the Red Delicious won! On October 6, we celebrated Walk to School Day and we made a class banner with shoes on it to remind us of the importance of being healthy. We walked two laps (very long!!) around the school and we got to eat ice pops and drink water. That Friday, October 8th we went on our first field trip to Fisher's Orchard. The field trip was awesome! After 8 years of field trips as a teacher, this one went as smoothly as possible which was nice! The kids saw scarecrows, apple trees, we went on a tractor ride and listened to Ms. Chris tell us about apples and pumpkins. We took a class picture at the farm that is super cute!!! Each child picked a bag of apples and one pumpkin to take home with them. We had a great time on our trip and we are all looking forward to the rest of October and learning about pumpkins! How exciting!

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Kindergarten Class!

Our school year has begun with 23 new kindergarten students ready to learn and grow more each day! Check out the pictures of our class as we begin this journey together for the 2010 school year.