Happy Birthday, Jack!

Today we celebrated Jack's birthday! Jack read to the class one of his favorite Iron Man stories and shared a delicious treat. Happy Birthday, Jack!

Happy Birthday, Viv!

Today we celebrated Vivian's birthday. She shared a great story and her special pink flamingo. We also enjoyed beautiful and delicious cake pops. Happy Birthday, Viv!

This past week

What a great week! We made so many amazing memories together. Enjoy these special pictures.

Happy Birthday, Hunter!

Today we celebrated Hunter's Birthday. Hunter shared with us his baby footprints and newborn pictures. It was amazing to see how much he has grown. Thank you for the delicious treat and great sharing. Happy Birthday, Hunter!

We received in the mail our collage that we created with J.C. Phillips!

Manatees and Beach Day pics

Catch Up on these great pictures!

I realize that there are a lot of Construction Zone pictures, but they are so proud when they build their structures and always ask me to take pictures.

These pictures include Guest Readers, playing store, creating scallops, human clock and creating our octopus. Enjoy!

J.C. Phillipps Skype Visit

In kindergarten, we had an "author visit" via Skype today. We took part in the "Skype in the classroom" program (https://education.skype.com) to have J.C. Phillipps join us in the common kindergarten area to discuss her latest book, her methods of illustrating and even take us on a little tour of her house! Julie read one of her stories, and then answered questions while discussing/modeling how she uses collages to create her work. It was a great experience for the kids who were able to ask questions and watch J.C. as she created a bit of artwork right before their eyes! KD has been using J.C. as the focus of our author study, and we will now take a cue from her and use her techniques in a cross curricular activity tying to our thematic study of the ocean. We've also requested, and Mrs. Oeth has agreed, to have some of Julie's books ordered and in our LS library.

Recent pictures of our scallop making, new math stations, guest readers and free choice construction.