Class Quilt

We definitely have an expert seamstress within our Beach Buddy family. This week Samantha's  mom brought in the quilt we started last week. It is amazing! You should have heard the "gasps" when it was revealed! The kindergartners love finding their very own drawing among the squares. I know our quilt will get a lot of use the rest of the year. Thank you, Katie....what a special memory keeper for us!

Penguin Facts

Miss Knutson has been helping us learn all about penguins. We began by sharing what we already knew about penguins and then listed questions we still had. With the help of books and online resources, we made a chart showing how our schema grew for penguins. On Friday, we worked with a friend to illustrate and read a penguin fact. We hope you can learn something new as well!

Experts All Around!

We sure learned a lot from our first three experts. We are getting better and better at asking questions as well. I know we will be ready to become experts ourselves very soon! Be sure to scroll all the way down to see the videos at the end.

Gena, Sam's mom, shared her expertise on teaching online and using Skype to interact with her students. We made plans to have her Skype us sometime soon too!

Samantha's mom, Katie, taught us how to sew! Some of us got to press the foot pedal to make the sewing machine work. Mrs. Zuehlke even gave it a try! Earlier in the week we each created a quilt square that Katie is so kindly making into a class quilt. We can't wait to see it! Look for a posting soon.

Mrs. Koets and Kiersten sang us "Puff the Magic Dragon". What a treat...we even requested an encore and it worked!

I have a dream...

As we remembered Martin Luther King today, we read Little Bill's story, Thank you Dr. King.
During morning meeting, Miss Knutson invited us to share a dream we had.
The responses were worth sharing!













I have a dream.....
to be a doctor. (Grace)
to be a dad. (Logan)
to play football. (Owen)
to be a cheerleader. (Samantha)
to be a doctor. (Kassy)
to be a wrestler like her brother. (Addison)
to be a motor cross racer. (Jacob)
to be a firefighter. (Sam)
to be an aunt. (Izzy J.)
to be a rock star. (Kiersten)
to be a boxer. (Trent)
to build a fort. (Morgan)
to play the guitar. (Imari)
to play football. (Michael)
to ride a dirt bike. (Brody)
to be a cheerleader. (Izzie N.)
to play a real basketball game. (Thomas)
to ride a dirt bike. (Braxton)
to be a police officer. (Graham)
to be an ice cream maker. (Austin)

Thank you, Dr. King!

Holiday Week in Kindergarten

Cookies and caroling were highlights in the days before break. We made book to book connections with gingerbread stories and loved making our own cookies. On Thursday we ate our cookies and graphed "where we took our first bite". The rest of the classes at Bendix enjoyed our caroling through the halls in our tree hats! We made a few holiday class books that will be coming home soon. Happy 2012!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone found their New Year's cards in their Round Trip Folders last week. I was surprised they came so quickly in the mail! I am working on a project to share all our videos and and pictures from our holiday week at school. I will post it soon. Enjoy the last few days of break!

Twinkling Snowflakes Holiday

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Grinch Day 2011

Last Friday our classroom was bursting with Grinchy green! We loved our grinch stations, games, stories, poems, and snack. We all had time with our stuffed Grinch and Max the Dog...who decided to stay in our room all week! We like to read and write with them! Take a look at the Grinch Day pictures below.

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