WOW!

What an amazing week for our school!  I was super excited to come back today to celebrate our school receiving the National Blue Ribbon award.  What an honor to be working at such an awesome elementary school.  I was flying high on cloud 9 today. As we began our morning, another AWESOME surprise happened.  Channel 13(WREX) came into our classroom with news camera's rolling.  Lily and her family nominated me for WREX's Teacher of the Week.  I feel so blessed to get to come to work every day and do what I love.  I appreciate that you send your children to me every day and trust me to take care of them.

We got to have a dance party at our school wide assembly this morning!

Unity Day

Unity Day is probably one of my favorite days of the school year.  It is such a unique and awesome opportunity for our students to get to work together with peers of different ages to solve problems and complete tasks.  I try to find each of my students throughout the day to get pictures of them at their stations, but this year I didn't find too many of them.

This was the banana pass.  Students had to get the banana from one end of the line to the other without using their hands!  It got a little tricky!

Students had to make a contraption to keep an egg from breaking that was dropped out of the science lab window!

We did have a little down time in between stations!

This station was fun!  Students had to get balls from one end of the black top to the other without it touching the ground and without using their hands or arms!

Students had to find the hidden treasure in the water using only their toes!

We are patiently waiting our turn for the next station!

Students had to work together as a team to get the water from one bucket to the next!

This station was very tricky!  Students had to walk together, moving the boards underneath them!

Tennis ball transfer was another really trick station.  They had to move the tennis ball from one cone to another using only the contraption provided!

Students had to move the ball on the tarp and drop it through the hole and into a small bucket!

This was a silent station where students had to use the pieces to make five squares that were all the same size. 

Don't step on a land mine Mrs. Sipes!

Spy Kids Training was a favorite!

This was like a human hamster wheel!

 Using only strings and rubber bands, the students had to build a red solo cup tower.

This station was a relay race where they had to transfer as much water as possible from one bucket to the next only using the sponge provided. 

Water balloon volley ball was another big hit!  

A HUGE THANK YOU TO MS. HOFFMAN AND ALL THE VOLUNTEERS WHO MADE TODAY POSSIBLE! 

YELLOW DAY!

During Literacy centers we are continuing to work on letter names and letter sounds. It is so much fun to see how much they have grown this school year!

Today was YELLOW DAY!  All of my kindergarten friends had yellow on somewhere!

Pinwheels for Peace

The kids had a blast planting their Pinwheels for Peace.  It was a great day for it.  We are looking forward to Unity Day on Friday. 

Our Week in Pictures!

This week was ORANGE week!  We learned about the color orange and added it to our word wall.  We also learned the letters n, m, r, l, and i.  Students should be able to name those letters and tell you the sound that they make.  Next week we will be celebrating yellow week.  I already have my YELLOW shirt picked out for Wednesday.  It may or may not have some green on it also.  GO PACK GO!  I hope you have an awesome weekend.  Don't forget, homework starts on Monday and will be checked for completion every morning. 

On Wednesday we made orange pumpkins.  We used our scissors to help build our fine motor skills and our hand muscles. 

Lots of friends wore orange to school!

They LOVE being silly!

Working hard in SuccessMaker!

Sorting letters is super fun!

BRAIN BREAK!

I love when they sit together and read!

We also worked on letter formation!