Feast Time for the Afternoon...

The afternoon had a great feast!  Thank you to everyone who sent in donations.  The children had a great time.  We are donating the left over food to the local food pantry.  Have a great Thanksgiving!

AM Feast

The AM class had a great Feast!  Thank you for all of your donations!  The children had a great time!

Feast Week...

We have a lot of exciting things planned for Monday and Tuesday.  On Monday we will be doing some simple review of letters, sounds, and blending words.  We will also have some fun by making a pattern place-mat and also be making butter for the feast.  On Tuesday, we will be having our feast at 9:30 and 1:15ish.  We have been looking forward to this day for awhile.

I will place some pictures on Tuesday or Wednesday of the event!  This week your child will also be bringing home some practice pages to read letters, sounds, and to say the sounds in words!

Have a great week!

Information...

I hope you all are having a great weekend and bracing for the possibility of snow tonight into tomorrow.  If you are watching the Bengals game...hopefully they pull out a win!  If you have not already done so, you can sign up for text messages about what is happening/important information going on in Kindergarten.  I have attached the sheet to the email if you so choose or you can text @fcd95 to (216)672-5429.

This week we are continuing our unit on addition.  The children are doing a great understanding addition is putting things together.  We are working on how to write an addition number sentence using the addition and equal sign.  You can work on this at home by practicing different stories and having your child draw a picture and write the number sentence.  In reading we are concentrating on our sounds, but more importantly blending those sounds into words.  You can work on this by placing a consonant - vowel - consonant on a paper and having your child try to figure out the word.  You can also have your child look through various books and see if they can find words they know.  We will also be working on sequencing stories. We are also beginning to increase our writing to work on learning to write simple sentences!

We are working on our feast preparations.  Our feast is November 25 at 9:30 and 1:15.  We always need volunteers for this event.  If you would like to event, please let me know.  In addition, we are asking for each child to bring in a fruit or vegetable to share (we cannot have any cherries or anything with peanuts/tree nuts).  If you would like you can always donate gallon and sandwich zip loc bags.  We also need lysol wipes!

I am thankful...

Pictures of our great Feast...thanks for all of your help...I am thankful to be working with such fantastic families! There are more pictures of our feast on the following link: http://mrstahlkindergarten.blogspot.com/p/pictures-of-our-class.html

AM Class

PM Class

Our Fall Feast...

Our Fall Feast will be this Tuesday (November 23 at 9:30 and 1:15). We are very excited about our feast and activities for the day. We are asking for children to bring in one thing of nuts, fruit, and/or vegetables. We will be having the items you bring in, a little bit of turkey, and milk to drink. To make this day a success we are in need of volunteers to help on this day. If you can volunteer please come a little early to help cut and set out food. I know the children will appreciate your help and they love to see their parents at school! We would love to help Your children have been very busy creating Pilgrim hats, Native American Headbands, Necklaces, and Turkey Plates! We have been studying the various lifestyles of Pilgrims and Native Americans. We have been comparing and contrasting thier life to our ours today. We also have been talking about what we are thankful for and writing about this. This is probably one of my favorite days in Kindergarten! I cannot wait to see the children and take lots of pictures. I will share those with you all once the feast concludes!

Our Feast...

Those of you new to kindergarten may not know this tradition we have and those of you who are returning kindergarten parents, it's again that time: The Annual Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast (November 23 at 9:30 & 1:15). To make this a success we need your help! We ask for you all to help supply the food we eat at the feast. We are in need of the following: nuts, fruits, popcorn, and vegetables. We ask for various types of nuts (almonds, peanuts, cashews, etc.). In regards to the fruits we ask for some traditional fruits and some nontraditional fruits which kids may have not experienced. In the past we have had star fruit, grapefruit, pomegranate, and kiwi. If you can help supply any of these foods, let your child's teacher know. In addition, we are looking for volunteers to help with set-up, cutting, and serving the kids this day. There will be more information coming out at the beginning of next week!

The kids are getting very excited because we have been reading various thanksgiving books and talking about what we are thankful. We will be making a classbook of the predictable sentence "I am thankful for..." I appreciate your help and look forward to annual feast this year!