Happy Thursday!

We have had a lot of fun with the dress up days for Riley this week!  Don't forget tomorrow is Wear Red for Riley Day!  Check out our pictures below:

Happy Hat Day!

 Happy Glam Day!

Happy Silly Sock Day!

Homework Confusion

Sorry for the confusion last night with the homework sheet!  On the back of the homework sheet,  Wednesday and Thursday night boxes were reversed.  Finishing Valentine cards was Wednesday night (most of you have already done this!) and the Thursday night homework is the worksheet.  This worksheet is in folders tonight.  Thanks!

Jump Rope for Heart

Tomorrow is Jump Rope for Heart day!  Along with wear red day tomorrow, please send your child to school tomorrow in comfortable clothes to jump in and TENNIS SHOES!

Superkids

This week in Superkids we have finished our B/R books, had a Super Smart lesson on mixing colors, and today we started Unit 3-N!  Whew!  What a lot of learning!

Math

This week in math we have done the following:

• counted pennies and nickels
• identified 3-D shapes (cube, cylinder, cone, sphere)
• made exchanges between nickels and pennies
• counted beats in time

Sight Words

This week we are working on: one, two.  Next week we will work on three, four, five.  Please add all these to your practice at home!

President's Day--Monday

Don't forget that we don't have school on Monday due to President's Day.  Happy 3 day weekend!

Have a great afternoon!

Happy Friday!

Heart Homework
The heart writing projects I have seen so far are so sweet!  I am so proud of the boys and girls for writing such nice things about the others in our class.  I would love to hang these up in the hallway Monday after we read them!  I still have a couple not returned--so if you could finish these up over the weekend and return them, I would greatly appreciate it!

Valentine Cards
Don't forget to keep writing Valentine's cards for everyone in the class!  Please have your child do as much of the handwriting as possible.  Cards are due next Thursday so we have time to put them in bags before our Valentine fun on Friday!

Valentine's Donations
Thank you to everyone who signed up to send something in for next week.  I think I have more than enough parents now.  If you signed up, I will send a half sheet size paper home on Monday in folders with the item I have you signed up to send in.  Please have donations sent in by next Thursday.

Riley Dance Marathon Week at Creekside February 8th-12th

Our high school has become a leader in the state with the Riley Dance Marathon and in order for them to move to the next level they need to have each school in the district donate $1 per child that attends their school. In order to try to help them out and help out Riley, we will have a Riley Dance Marathon Week during next week. We will ask that kids donate a dollar for each day, but whatever you are able to give will be appreciated.

Monday: Favorite Hat Day

Tuesday: Glam Day

Wednesday: Spirit Wear Day

Thursday: Silly Sock Day

Friday: Wear Red for Riley Day

Bus Driver Appreciation Week

FYI - next week is bus driver appreciation week.  Be sure to thank your child's bus driver! :)

College Day!

Happy College Day from these cuties!

Yoga Ball Chairs--Grant

Creekside Kindergarten was lucky enough to write and receive a grant from the Franklin Education Connection!  We used this money to start purchasing yoga ball chairs to put at our small group tables!  We are very excited about this possibility of adding movement to our classroom, at a time where the students would normally be required to be sitting still.  The yoga balls sit on a base with legs attached so they won't roll away and the whole thing is covered with a thin black fabric for comfort and so the balls can't be removed from the base and bounced around. :)  Check out a picture of our new chairs below, the new signs outside our door, and some of the benefits of using these balls in the classroom!  We have a Donors Choose page set up to hopefully get the rest of the balls we need.  I am so excited--I have big plans for the rest of the seating in our classroom in the future!! :)

Have a great weekend!  See you Monday!

Halfway through another busy week!

Happy Groundhog's Day!

We did fun shadow/light experiments, and a groundhog's story and songs Tuesday to celebrate Groundhog's day.  Ask your child to share what they learned!

Math

Here are a few pictures of groups playing the attribute spinner game on Monday!  What great group work and teamwork!

No School--February 15

We have not received an official notification from the Indiana Department of Education regarding our missed day in December.  Thus, we will NOT be in session on February 15th, but we may have to attend one more day at the end of the year.

Heart Homework

Wednesday in folders you will see a red piece of paper with a writing paper heart.  Please follow the directions to have your child write a nice message to a friend.  Then have them cut, color, and decorate the writing, and glue it to the red piece of paper.  Don't forget to have them sign the bottom of their heart so the friend knows who wrote the nice things about them!  We will display these in the hallway for Valentine's Day.  You can send them in whenever they are finished--I would like to have all displayed by Monday of next week if possible.

Superkids
Tuesday we watched a Super Smart about Communities.  This one was divided into several important parts: Health and Safety, Foods We Eat, Transportation, Buildings, and Clean and Beautiful.  We also talked about the main idea of the story.  Please also remember to ask about story elements during nightly reading at home (characters, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, end, and MAIN IDEA).  
Wednesday we began the second half of our first Superkids Club book.  For the remainder of the book, we will learn about the letter Rr and find out more about how the Superkids plan on using the old bus as a meeting place for their club.

Have a great afternoon!

Happy warm Monday!

Hello!  I hope you all had a great warm weekend!  I don't know about you, but I will be sad to see this warmer winter weather go away by the end of the week!

Snack Calendar
February snack calendars are in folers today.  Please check it out and see if you are on the list for this month!

Sight Words
Our sight words for this week are: and, as, be.  Please add these to your method of practicing at home!

Book Order
The Scholastic Book order for February will come next Monday, on the 8th.  These will be due February 26th.  As always, no pressure to order, but it is a great way to add to your home library!

Valentines Info
Please check your child's folder tonight for the first piece of Valentine's Day info for our classroom.  More information will be in folders tomorrow as well!

Math
This week, we are working on the following things in math:

• Choosing blocks based on attributes (Attribute Spinner Game)
• Identifying and locating numbers on the 100 number grid
• Identifying and counting pennies

Have a great week!

Happy Friday!

Composite Pictures
If you ordered school pictures, the composite pictures are in folders today.  Enjoy!

Homework Issue
I've been noticing an issue where math homework has been forgotten about on some nights!  Sometimes, I think you are helping your child with it at home, and are simply forgetting to circle or initial the correct spot on the back side of the homework sheet.  Please make sure to read and complete both sides!  If I have put a question mark in the box, then something has not been completed.  Please make sure to finish the next evening. Thanks so much for all your hard work at home.

Pizza Party
This afternoon was our pizza party for counting to 100!  Check out our fun pictures below.

DIBELS Reports
DIBELS reports are in folders today.  Please look over your child's midyear progress, and let me know if you have questions or concerns!

Have a great weekend!

Happy Tuesday!

Superkids
This week we began our second half of Superkids!  The "Superkids Club" books continue right where we left off with "Meet the Superkids."  We are still learning about new letters and sounds, how to correctly write each letter, and how to blend the sounds into words.  However, these units will be much more rigorous and the student books contain more pages and activities for the children to complete.  

Math  
Here are the skills we will be working on in math:

• Using tally marks to represent class data, counting tally marks by 5's
• Using objects to represent numbers and make exchanges (The class learned the Raft Game which is an introduction to exchanging pennies for nickels.)
• Reviewing estimating
• Practicing and comparing measuring with standard and non-standard units of measurement
• Choosing tools to fit measuring tasks (ruler, yard stick, measuring tape)
• Constructing a class bar graph
• Drawing conclusions and answering questions based on data from bar graphs
• Choosing blocks based on attributes (Attribute Spinner Game)
• Identifying and locating numbers on the 100 number grid

High Ability Test
The High Ability practice test and test have been taking up a lot of our time.  Last week we finished the practice test.  This week we are doing 3 tests every day from Monday-Wednesday. They have been doing a great job and I am very proud of this class for working so hard!

100 Pizza Party
Friday afternoon, Kindergarten classes will meet in the cafeteria to celebrate all of the kiddos who were able to count to 100 by the 100th day of school.  We will be dining on pizza from Chicago's!

Sight Words
Our new sight words for this week are: are, that, do.  Please add these to your practice at home!

Valentine's Party
Our party/centers will be Friday, February 12 from 1:00-2:00.  Part of the party will include the children opening Valentine cards from their friends.  A class list will be sent home later. Please use this list to allow your child to address 21 cards to their friends.  Please include everyone on the list so that feelings are not hurt.  As part of handwriting practice, your child should be the one writing their friends' names as well as their own on each Valentine.  All cards are due Thursday, February 11.    Thank you!

Yearbook Orders
Yearbook orders are due this Friday.  If you plan to order a yearbook, you can make a check out to Inter-State Studios for $15. Yearbooks can also be ordered online at https://inter-state.com/Yearbook and use the order code 04564CG.

Have a great afternoon!

Happy 100th day of School!

Happy 100th day of school!!  We are 100 days Smarter!!  We had a huge celebration today, and all of our center, writing, and math activities surrounded the number 100.  I have LOTS of pictures to share!  Have fun looking through them!

When I am 100 Years Old

I found this free app that changes your picture to what you will look like when you are 100 years old!  It was super fun (and slightly creepy!) to play around with this morning.  Here are our 100 year old faces:

  

Happy 100th day!

 We are 100 days smarter!

100 shapes to color morning work

Can we do 100 exercises??

Mrs Dunn's favorite--100 seconds of SILENCE!! :)

100th day crowns

Trying to see if we can get to the center of the Tootsie Roll sucker in 100 licks

100th day bookmarks!

What will you look like at 100 years old?

What would you buy with 100 dollars?

I can eat 100 ____!

 100 Hershey Kiss scavenger hunt!

100 piece trail mix snack

Counting by 10s to 100 puzzle!

Whew!  What a great day we had!  Have a great weekend!