Day 4 Update

 It was a fabulous Friday in Room 115! Please enjoy some pictures from our day!!

Where is Pigeon? 🔎

The highlight of our day was reading the book The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems and going on a pigeon hunt around Boyden School! The pigeon sent us on quite an adventure as we searched locations such as the office, cafeteria, music room, gym, and even Mr. Dearborn's office! It seems as though he was too fast for us to catch! Luckily our hunt had a happy ending as the pigeon was waiting for us when we returned to our classroom! I wonder how he got there! 🤔

It was an amazing first 4 days in Kindergarten! Be on the lookout for a lunch Google Form, and an email with important dates and announcements that I plan to send out on Sunday. Have a great weekend! 🌞

Day 3 Update

 It was a thrilling Thursday in Room 115! Please enjoy a few updates below. 🌞

Announcements:

Pizza Day Tomorrow! 🍕

A friendly reminder that tomorrow is pizza day in the cafeteria! If your child was originally planning to bring their lunch from home but would like to get pizza instead, please let me know!

Classroom Update:

A Perfectly Messed Up Story 📖

Today we read the book The Perfectly Messed Up Story by Patrick McDonnell. Through this story we learned the importance of taking care of books and treating them in an expected way. After reading, the students learned how to use our classroom library! Looking at a book from our library area is always a choice for students who finish with their work early. 

Be a Bucket Filler 💗

Another story we enjoyed today was How to be a Bucket Filler by Carol McCloud. This book taught us about kindness! We learned that everyone has an invisible bucket, and when we do or say nice things it fills a person's invisible bucket up! After reading, each child colored their own bucket. This was a great opportunity to discuss the expectations for coloring in Kindergarten. When coloring the children are expected to stay inside the lines, make all the white space disappear, and use appropriate colors (i.e. trees should be green, strawberries red, etc.). It is important to note that at this age, your child's fine motor skills are still developing. Every student is expected to work to the best of their ability, but by no means am I expecting perfection!

Conversation Starters 🗩

Below are some questions you can ask your child based on what we did in class today!

• Why do we have rules at school?
  
• What does it mean to be a bucket filler? What are some ways you can fill someone's bucket?
• Ask your child to tell you about our classroom library. How do you know where a book goes when you are done reading it (hint colors and numbers)

I hope you enjoyed the update of our day. I'm looking forward to a fabulous Friday in Room 115! 🍎🚌📘

Hip Hip Hooray for the 2nd Day of K!

 It was a wonderful Wednesday in Room 115 and we spent our second day of school together! 😃

Fire Drill 🚒

We started our day by learning about how we stay safe at school and discussing what to do in case of an emergency. We then participated in our first school-wide fire drill. The children did a fantastic job listening and following directions. I couldn't be more proud of them!

Scissor Salad! 🥗

Today in class the students were introduced to 2 new school tools: scissors and glue sticks! We discussed the procedures for using these tools in class, and then practiced our cutting and gluing by making scissor salads. Yum!

No David! 📖

This afternoon we enjoyed reading the story No, David! By David Shannon. This book was a great conversation starter for the types of behavior that is expected (and unexpected!) at school. We will continue to talk about behavior expectations throughout the year!

I hope you enjoyed a quick peek at our day! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone back at Boyden tomorrow for day 3! 👍

The First Day of K!

  It was so exciting to welcome 18 new faces to Room 115 this morning! Please enjoy a few pictures from our very busy day below. 😊

Announcements:

Dismissal Tags

Please be sure to keep your child's neon dismissal tag on their backpack for the first week or so. They are very helpful for me and other Boyden staff members at the end of the day. Thank you so much in advance for your help!

We waited patiently for all of our friends to arrive before heading to the classroom. We will continue to meet in the cafeteria and go to the classroom together for the rest of this week!

Once we got to the classroom we met Hallway Harry! He showed us the behavior that is expected when walking in the hallway. Our line is already looking great!

At Morning Meeting each child placed a sticker under their feelings about the first day. Most of the students in our class felt excited! 😁

Make a Wish! 🌟

Today we listened to the story I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and discussed wishes we have for Kindergarten! We then made special wish bracelets. Click here to watch our bracelets turn colors when we went outside for recess! 

It was a great first day of K in Room 115! 🍎📖🚌