Funny Kindergarten Quotes

One of the many reasons I love working with kindergarten students is the great things they say, for example . .

• "A really long, long time ago when I was 4 I did that!" (She is 5 now)
• I was telling a story about one of my boys and one response was: "Mrs. Couture your boys are hilarious!"

Welcome Back

We had a great first day back from Thanksgiving break! During morning meeting we shared events from our week off, we caught our calendar up in number corner (10 days to catch up on is a lot in one day), participated in math work places during math time, started talking and writing about our families holiday traditions during social studies and played together during free choice time. It was nice to be back together!

Words Come Alive

Today was our second session of Words Come Alive with Lida, Flynn Teaching Artist and our friends from Isle LaMotte. This time the kindergarten and first grade from Isle LaMotte joined us for Social Studies. Mrs. Frank (their teacher) read us a book called Families are Different and then lead us in a project of using buttons to represent the members of our own families. After lunch and recess we all came back together to dance! When our dance time was over we all participated in free choice in our classroom. It was a busy, fun day in the Folsom kindergarten room :)

Today starts our first vacation from school since we began in September. Enjoy!

A Story With Ms. Cohn

Ms. Cohn, our speech/language pathologist, visited our classroom today to share a story. It was about a woman who made beautiful quilts to give to people who needed them. she taught a greedy king how to be happy by giving instead of receiving. He was rewarded with a feeling of happiness and with one of her quilts! Ms. Cohn brought quilt pieces with her as well as a globe to show the many places the king visited giving gifts. We had a great time!

Family Book Bin

We opened a new bin of books today all about families! Here are  a few examples of books in our new bin:

• You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World by Barbara Kerley  - This book depicts a great collection of photographs ad words portraying different activities parents and children enjoy together around the world. There are pictures from India, Germany, China, Australia and more!
• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman - A favorite at our house! The poor bird falls out of the nest and then begins a search for his mother, asking a dog a cow and more: "are you my mother?"
• My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson - This book explores how some families are formed by adoption.
• Will There be a Lap For Me? by Dorothy Corey - In this book Kyle is worried about the new baby that is coming! First he loses his special spot (mom's lap) when her belly grows and then he is worried mom will be too busy for him.

The Keeping Quilt

We read The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco today. It is a story about a quilt passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. We used the story to deepen our understanding of family, traditions within a family as well as customs. It was also a great way to talk about quilts before we started our pattern  quilt in math.

Circle Pass

We danced with a scarf today during our Words Come Alive time.