Happy Holidays!

Dear Families!

I want to wish everyone a happy and wonderful holiday break! Today, I sent home with each child an updated word wall with words we have learned, a book for your child to keep and a DVD with photos taken from our class and a short video of your child's story. We hope you enjoy it! Remember to continue reading with your child every night! :) Also check out Ms. Kim's website: http://sites.google.com/site/mskimonline/
for some fun and educational activities for your child to do while indoors.

I can't wait to see everyone in the new year!

Ms. Esther

Storytelling

Hi Families! I am so excited to announce that our class will be working on storytelling for the next two weeks! Today, we started by telling partners a story from our lives. I was so excited listening to stories about the children going to the playground, going to Target, playing, decorating Christmas trees and more! We will be recording the stories at the end of the unit through voice recorders.

I also want to connect this with an art project in creating a diorama. Please bring in any spare shoeboxes you may have! :)

Also, this Friday is our concert. The students will be singing! Please come join us as we celebrate the season through song!

Parent Teacher Conferences

Hi everyone! I can't believe it's almost the end of October. The kindergartners have been super busy learning so much! I will update with a new post soon. But I want to remind everyone that today I will be sending home the note to make an appointment for parent teacher conferences! Please send these back as soon as possible! I can't wait to meet with everyone!

September-We're all different and special!

I can't believe we've all been in school for a month already. We have done some exciting things this last month! We have been working on learning each others' names and learning all about our classroom and school.

One thing we did was to draw self-portraits. We noticed how we're all different because we all look different but we are also similar because we all have a nose, two eyes, a mouth! Check out our art work:


We've also been writing stories about things that are important and special to us. We learned we all have unique experiences!


In math, we also looked for things that are the same and things that are different. We even added the words to our math word wall.


Practice using the words same and different at home!

Welcome to our classroom!

our classroom!

one of our morning meeting greetings

dramatic play center
our classroom library

First Days of School

Hi everyone! I was super excited to meet everyone on Wednesday and I can't wait for our first full week of school! I loved learning everyone's names. On Wednesday, we learned some important things about being school. On Monday, we'll be learning more about what we need to do at school and creating our classroom rules. We're also going to start learning more about each others' names! I can't wait!

Getting Ready

I can't believe school is starting soon! I am so excited to meet all the new faces coming to our classroom!! I am incredibly excited about all the learning and exploring we are going to be doing this year!

I will be sending out detailed supply lists on the first day of school! If you have any extra empty boxes such as cereal boxes or any other food type boxes, please save them and donate them to our classroom! We will be using them in our dramatic play center.

Remember, the first day of school is September 8th 2010!! While, you're waiting--work on the alphabet with your child! www.starfall.com offers some really good alphabet practice!!

If you have any questions, please email me at esthertales@gmail.com