Writing to a US Soldier!

We have very exciting news! We are going to be writing letters to an active US Soldier. Miss Stearns' best friend is named Allison. Allison has friends who are in the National Guard. One of Allison's friends just deployed to Afghanistan for a year and she asked if we would like to send a letter to this soldier. When I asked the class they all agreed they would love to! :)

So today we began brainstorming ideas of things to say in our letter. Over the next couple days we will be working hard on our letters and pictures we will be sending!

Yesterday we started talking about coins. We are leaning about pennies and nickels. To help us remember some facts about pennies we learned this new poem!

Penny penny 

Easily spent

Copper brown 

And worth one cent!

Since we have learned all the letters of the alphabet (Yayyy!) we are moving onto letter blends - two letters that make a different sound when they are together in a word. This week we have been learning the sound that /sh/ makes. Today we practiced the tongue twister 'She Sells Seashells' and highlighted all the /sh/ we could find!

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells. 

So if she sells shells on the seashore.

I'm sure she sells seashore sells.

We decided that it was too nice to stay inside this week, so we went out on the playground to work on our sight words by playing a version of 'Red Rover, Red Rover' and baseball! :) Make sure you ask your child about these games...they are really simple to play at home and work on word recognition!

Don't forget tomorrow is a school day for Elm Street ONLY! All other schools in our RSU have a day off!

Thanks to all the families who were able to make it to conferences tonight...it was great to see everyone! :)

Today we had a special treat! Rudy's mom came in to our class to talk about the sap boiling/maple syrup making process. She also brought in ice cream for us. We drizzled maple syrup over it....and it was delicious! yummmmm!! :)

Starting next week we will have an EXTRA gym class on Tuesdays! Please make sure your student wears their sneakers Monday AND Tuesday! :) So our specials are as follows:

Monday - Phys. Ed with Mr. Rose
Tuesday - Phys. Ed with Mr. Willer and Library with Mrs. Lake
Wednesday - Computer lab
Thursday - Art with Mrs. Whitten

Yesterday our friends from the food bank came to collect all the non-perishable items we collected for the 100th day of school. All together the three kindergarten classes collected 197 items! :) We spent the afternoon sorting the goods into piles of vegetables, soups, fruits, etc. and learning all about how the food bank works!