Benny's Message

This was Benny's morning message on the Digital Notebook. I got a toy. There is pizza today. Love, Benny

Patricia's Writing

My Dog and my Puppy
They love my moms flowers. They say they are pretty. They are very,very pretty.

March 18, 2008 Karlee's Message

Karlee was the student of the day. She wrote the message using the digital notebook. We read her message and used it for a lesson.

March 14, 2008

We did lots of reading and writing. We had peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Ms. Rosekrans even ate one and helped us describe what they tasted like. We made a graph of our favorite snack of the day. Eleven people liked them. We also played reading "game shows". Mrs. Sian brought back 2 new games from the conference. These will help us learn sight words, vocabulary, decoding skills and phonics skills. We went to virtual earth and looked at our school and some of our houses. Virtual earth has more close ups in Michigan than Google Earth. We could actually see our school and Mrs. Sian's swimming pool. Virtual Earth is a free download from Microsoft.

March 13. 2008

Today we went to the new class blog in computer class (www.siansclass.blogspot.com). It was fun. We voted and decided the zoo site was our favorite. Madison read "Green Eggs and Ham" to us. we went for a walk around the school because we had inside recess and we wanted to get exercise. We had writing work shop. Cameron wrote about spiderman. Tyler wrote about his brother and the play station. Libby wrote about going to Snowsnake with Alexys.

Read Around the Planet

We participated in Read Around the Planet for reading month. We were matched with a class in Texas. Kay Hauck from the RESD brought in the equipment to hook us up so we could see them and they could see us. We wrote a book and each child read their page. Then, we listened to their presentation and had a chance to ask each other questions. The other school was Rusk Elementary in El Paso, Texas. We learned that they are close to the Mexican border and live in a very large city. They told us that it was going to be 75 that day and they would be able to go home and go swimming. Of course, we aren't so lucky. It was about 30 here that day, but we were due for another cold snap and had lots of snow. We told them that we could go sledding or skiing. It was a great experience! For teachers, check the teacher page for lesson details.

Be My Valentine

My creation
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We had a great valentine party.

We are learning to make thinking maps. This group worked on a circle map. Next week we will learn to make a bubble map.

Kindergarten Authors

The students read the story they wrote during writing workshop.

Note: Some students were absent the day we videotaped. Look for another video from them soon. Also, if you are trying to view this at school, it may not load due to security settings. You can view it on teacher tube.

Even Snack Time is Learning Time

Writing Workshop

Check the teacher page for a detailed description of this writing workshop.

Our Christmas Pictures

My creation
Originally uploaded by julisian