Highlights of the Week

Lost and Found
We have quite a few clothing items from my two groups that have been left behind. If your child is missing a jacket, mittens, or anything like that, please let me know. I will do my best to match the items with their owners. It is always a great idea to write your child's name in items that they take off (especially jackets, zip ups etc.) so that if something gets left behind I can hang it up on their hook for the following day. Here are some items in my little Kinder lost and found...

Snowman Glyphs

This week we made snowman glyphs. Instead of just coloring the picture, the kiddos had to listen to two choices and then color a particular part based on their answer. The choices were as follows:

Color the snowflakes purple if you like chocolate ice cream.
Color the snowflakes red if you like vanilla ice cream.

Color the hat black if you have built a snowman.
Color the hat yellow if you have never build a snowman.

Color the nose orange if you like to make snow forts.
Color the nose red if you like to make snow angels.

Color the scarf pink if you are a girl.
Color the scarf blue if you are a boy.

Color the snow buttons green if you like to sled.
Color the snow buttons brown if you do not like to sled.

Color the snow pile your favorite color.

Here are a few examples:

The Bucket Book

This week we also read a fantastic book called Have You Filled a Bucket Today? The book talks about how every person carries around an invisble bucket and that we can be bucket fillers by being kind and doing nice things  or bucket dippers by doing not so nice things. We talked a lot about what the students thought they could do in order to be bucket fillers. Today we practiced "journal writing" and wrote a sentence about how we would be bucket fillers. If your child mentions something about either filling or dipping into their bucket, now you know what they are talking about. This is a great reminder that we need to be kind to each other and do and say nice things both in class and at home. Some of the kids said they were going to give their moms hugs, play with their siblings, be nicer, invite other kids to play with them, and they sure have been giving me lots of compliments to fill my bucket. The best comment...

"Mrs, Toppel I love you and you're a nice teacher" -Micah

DIBELS

We also had our DIBELS testing on Tuesday of this week and the kids were great. Not only did they do really well on the measures, but they were so patient and quiet when they had to wait their turn. They have been working really hard and it is showing! Great job!

Next Week

Next week, we will be working on the letter D. Diana (AM) and Darney (PM) are the stars of the week. We will also focus on the sight word "you."

Have a great weekend!