Hark!

Just for fun, something I heard on the radio: Hark! The Herald "Preschoolers" Sing.
Enjoy!

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I have a really cute idea. I hope it works!

Jingle Bells

"HEY!"

Pictures from Last Week

Here are some of the centers we did last week:
It was nice to have a Dad helping out to monitor the outdoor sneezing art center. The children enjoyed fake sneezing as they sprayed their paper; I enjoyed having the food coloring outside.

Inside we made Christmas ornaments.

Some children made more later. Our tables and hands were very glittery.
This center was a game that involved throwing the squishy worm ball, counting the set of stickers it landed nearest, and comparing that set with others' numbers.

Today we saw...

After recess we all spent a few minutes near the fence watching the action. We'll get to see lots of exciting things this year as the new gym starts to get built.

We watched the backhoe (I only know that's what it is called because a five year old told me, and I have no idea if I spelled it correctly - feel free to correct me!) scoop up debris from Saturday's demolition work day (thanks to the dads who worked so hard!) and dump it into the big truck.

Quote

We were making Christmas chains today. One student got hers to be quite long rather quickly.
Child 1: How do you make it so fast?
Child 2: Because I work and I don't giggle around.

'Tis The Season

Today in Bible we heard about an angel visiting Mary to tell her she would have a baby. Then Mary went to visit Elizabeth, who was also going to have a baby.
Student 1: "But how did the baby get out?"
"There's a special hole for it to get out."
Student 2: "I know! It's the belly button!"
"No. Ask your mom."
Student 3: "I asked my mom. She said it's none of my business."

Fresh n' Easy

Tomorrow is the Shop for School fundraiser at Fresh n' Easy... hope to see you there!
This morning we had lots of fun in art as we decorated boxes; don't they just make you want to drop in a receipt to help the school?

The ocean box:The Wildcat box (well, it started blue, but got more colorful)
The Christmas box:
The garden box:

Breath of Heaven

Kindergarten Followers, you may ignore this post...it's for Christmas concert practice for the 5th -8th Grade Girls. Using a webcam, the quality is not great and it's a bit blurry, but hopefully it helps a bit anyway.
I'll give credit where credit is due: The song is "Breath of Heaven", sung by Nicola Walker Smith on the CD 25 Christmas Songs You Love To Sing.

Other stuff from today

The grocery store center has been in use the entire length of free choice centers every single day. Today I saw children circling ads, reading prices, cutting coupons, and then entering the barcode on the cash register.
In case we didn't make enough noise when we knocked down Jericho the first time, or when we played Tumbling Walls and we were the walls, some children rebuilt and redestroyed Jericho during centers. Those poor preschoolers next door... they probably heard us all day (practicing Mr. Turkey, loudly reciting memory work, and of course fighting the battle of Jericho).
When I demonstrated how to build a pyramid, the class applauded. This was by far the most popular of our morning rotating centers today.
Thanks to Fall Festival, we could hunt in the hay for some hidden things. This week it was transportation. After school a preschooler helped me hide something new in it for next week...

Thanksgiving Feast

Here is the class performing It's Thanksgiving and Mr. Turkey. Some children remembered to do the actions :)
Here is everyone with their buddies:






Yes, I dressed up too. Mrs. Voss somehow avoided the picture this year.

Hat Day

Awwwww

The last child to pray today ended with "and thank you that we have Miss Vis to teach us. Amen."

I love my job.

Transportation

Today in social studies we talked about transportation and we graphed ourselves by how we got to school. There were a few bus riders, but most children came in their can/van with a parent. No walkers today. I told the class that I walked to school from Kindergarten through 7th grade and after that I took a car, a ferry boat, and a bus. They just stared at me. I'm not sure they believed me.

A Smattering of Pictures

Sorry for the lack of posting...it gets pretty busy before Fall Festival. Hopefully there will be more pictures up after Friday's Thanksgiving Feast. Don't forget that you (parents and children) are allowed to dress up... and don't order pizza since we will be feasting on turkey etc.
My cousin reminded me that I needed to update the blog, so here are a few pictures from the last few weeks. Below are two boys intently searching for words they know, or the letter Nn in a Newspaper (popular activity and so easy/inexpensive....just requires a newspaper page and a highlighter or crayon)A fading collage from art class. Can you tell what some or all of the shapes are?
Remember when I asked you to sign those highlights magazine forms, even if you did not order anything, and I would get free stuff? Well it came! We have already used the (quiet!) foam dominoes for a number game, and the new pointers are popular. THANK YOU! Hopefully if you did order the magazine, they have started to come or will start soon.
Smile and say "Fall Festival!"
Building words with our new insta-learn board, bought with money from the auxiliary.

Field Trip

Today was our field trip to Petco
Somewhere amidst all those hands and heads there is a cat.
This was actually the first animal we got to touch. It was very entertaining because it pooped.
The guinea pig was scared and trying to hide. If I was a guniea pig, I might be scared of Kindergarteners too.
The ferrets were fun to watch. Despite being nocturnal, they all wanted to come out of the cage.
Gecko.
There were a lot of fish.
We got to feed these fish.
We found Nemo (clownfish)! Also a Blue Tang (Dorie) which is not pictured here.

1 more for this week - I love Bb week

In science we blew bubbles (mostly we had fun, but we also talked about the shape of bubbles and experimented with blowing hard and soft, and tried to blow bubbles with just water - which didn't work because you need soap to make bubbles).

Just for fun, we played balloon tag at the end of the day (with first grade). Get set,

GO!

Just one balloon left to pop.

13 children + 13 bears = a really fun day

Today's science lesson was about how God made animals do amazing things to help them survive. Here we are all flying from the cold North end of our room to the warmer South end.
We were birds only briefly. Most of today was about bears. We got to practice following directions and ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth, fifth) to make these bear paw print snacks. The fifth step was the favorite: eat it!
After reading a non-fiction bear book we wrote about what we learned. These ones say "Bears hibernate", "I learned about hibernation" and "lady bears have two babies at a time".
During quiet reading the room was transformed. A big cave/den was built in the middle of the room. We crawled around eating food before we went in to hibernate. There are 26 bears in this cave.We played a game in which the bears had to wake up when they heard two rhyming words.
All the happy children and bears right before we went on our bear parade.