Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: June 2017

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Our Final Days!

Kindergarten beach days, field day, T-Shirt signing, room cleaning, and saying goodbye! Thank you all for a wonderful kindergarten school year, and end of year gifts, and most of all for sharing your child as they have grown sooooo much this school year.

Have a wonderful summer!!

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Woodard's Farm and Ben and Jerry's!

On our way to hike the "cow path!"

The cow path that leads up to the fields

Having fun on the rocks!

The gang!

George Woodard's beautiful farm

Up close to the "marshmallow" hay bales

Farmer George teaching us about the milking room

In the cow barn...watch out for Ginger!

Leading the cows up the cow path

...and ending our day with Ben and Jerry's ice cream!

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Upcoming Events!

*Friday, June 9th Field Trip to George Woodard's Dairy Farm and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory!
We are going rain or shine. Hiking shoes, mud boots, sneakers would be best. Remember to send a packed lunch, unless you have already sent in a school lunch order.

*Monday, June 12th Kindergarten Beach Day at TBPS playground. Monday will be hot and sunny.
Brad Gresham, head of maintenance at TBPS, has helped us year after year by setting up water stations on the lower playground. Thank you so much Mr. Gresham!

*Wednesday, June 14th Kinder field Days at Dascome Row Park. We are hoping to have many parents, siblings welcome at your discretion, join us for our Kindergarten Field Days. There will be many different centers/activities set up around the field.

*Friday, June 16th Last Day of 2016-2017 School for TBPS.,12:15 dismissal!

100th Day of School!

We are celebrating the 100th day on Tuesday, February 6th. We will be completing all sorts of fun math and literacy activities on this day. One activity is “Sharing Collections”. Students are asked to bring in a collection of 100 items. All collections need to be back by our 100th day. Examples of items to collect are:

Pennies, crayons, beads, matchbox cars, lego’s, erasers, marshmallows, toothpicks, pebbles, noodles, paper clips, stickers, goldfish, cereal… the possibilities are endless!

All About Books

Our Animal Research Books are complete! We have included many facts about our animals, used "Kidspirartion" to organize our facts on the computer and used "Kidpix" to make diagrams with labels on the computer. We also included headings, bold print, a glossary, a table of contents page and a "Meet the Author" page. This project came together beautifully as children incorporated technology into their research and final products. We are now experts on many animals!! (and non-fiction text features!)

Adventure Play

One component of our weekly routine is Adventure Play. These games and activities invite children to challenge themselves, practice cooperation, provide opportunities to practice decision making skills, and build upon our classroom community skills.

One of our favorites is called "Car and Driver" where children are encouraged to participate in "challenge by choice". One child is the "car", and may close their eyes for the "challenge", but may open their eyes at any time "by choice". What fun it is to "drive" our "cars" around our classroom!